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Trump's nominees for energy and interior secretary cleared the ENR committee on bipartisan votes and now head to the floor where Senate leadership has been working to approve his cabinet picks.
The 2,600 GW of wind, solar and storage sitting in interconnection queues across the U.S. represent a major imbalance in energy resources that could lead to brownouts or blackouts, former North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum (R) said during his Senate confirmation hearing.
Chris Wright, President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee to head the Department of Energy, positioned himself as a supporter of an all-of-the-above approach to developing generation and transmission before the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee.
With days left in his administration, President Joe Biden issued an executive order aimed at siting and permitting cutting-edge artificial intelligence data centers on federal land by 2027.
The grants represent the second round of funding from the IIJA’s $2.5 billion Charging and Fueling Infrastructure program.
The data center dilemma centers first on a familiar mismatch of timescales. Utilities and their regulators tend to plan based on the small, incremental demand growth. But development and the power demand it generates move at ever-increasing digital speed.
The direction FERC takes during President-elect Donald Trump’s second term is up in the air, but the commission may spend some of its time attempting to cut costs to consumers.
As they prepare to leave office, Biden administration officials remain confident that IRA funds already committed by DOE will be impossible to claw back by the incoming Trump administration.
A new report on the Inflation Reduction Act finds that the IRA could boost the U.S. GDP by $1.9 trillion over the next decade.
The U.S. solar industry is embracing priorities of the incoming Trump administration as it seeks to preserve the momentum it built during the Biden administration.
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