Two more offshore wind buyouts

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WIND

• Two more offshore wind projects have agreed to take payouts from the Trump administration in exchange for giving up leases near New Jersey and California. (Associated Press)

• Vineyard Wind begins selling power to Massachusetts at a rate officials say will save residents 1.4 cents per kilowatt-hour. (New Bedford Light)

EFFICIENCY

• At least three Democrat-led states are targeting energy efficiency spending in an attempt to lower energy costs, seizing on immediate action at the expense of long-term savings, experts say. (Canary Media)

BUILDINGS

• Again and again, courts are rejecting legal challenges to local rules pushing for building electrification in New York, Maryland, and other places across the country. (Canary Media)

• New York state will make $100 million available for clean energy and energy efficiency projects in public schools across the state. (News 10)

CLIMATE

• Pennsylvania will use $267 million in Biden-era climate funding to support 31 projects cutting industrial emissions. (E&E News)

• Boston’s mayor lays out a new five-year climate strategy that includes plans to purchase more EVs for city use, increase support for energy-efficient building retrofits, and study the feasibility of a congestion pricing system. (WGBH, Boston Herald)

AFFORDABILITY

• Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro (D) appoints the state’s first energy affordability watchdog, who will take legal action to prevent exorbitant rate increases. (ABC 27)

ELECTRIC VEHICLES

• Maine adds $1,000 to its EV rebates for low and moderate-income residents through September 30. (News Center Maine)

GRID

• A three-day heat wave could cause blackouts in New York this summer if emergency actions aren’t taken, grid operator NYISO forecasts. (Utility Dive)

• Pennsylvania state lawmakers consider a bill that would require utilities to publish maps showing where there’s room for renewable energy projects to connect to the grid. (Pennsylvania Capital-Star)

COMMUNITY CHOICE

• Maine becomes the latest state to allow municipal governments to negotiate power prices on behalf of residents, a practice that often leads to lower rates and higher percentages of renewable energy. (PV Magazine)

SOLAR

• Connecticut lawmakers have only a week to hammer out the details of a bill reauthorizing the state’s solar incentive program. (CT Mirror)

• Delaware’s largest rooftop solar installation comes online, spanning 10 acres atop a packaging company facility. (NBC Philadelphia)

NEW FROM CANARY

• A new bill would help VPPs replace peaker plants in California — Jeff St. John

• US battery startup builds factory in China after nixing Kentucky plant — Julian Spector

• Virginia’s new law blocks counties from banning solar — Elizabeth Ouzts

• Supreme Court won’t hear appeal in Ohio utility bribery case — Kathiann M. Kowalski