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Mikie Sherrill for New Jersey

N.J. Backs Clean Energy Democrat for Governor

Nov 5, 2025PJMHugh Morley

New Jersey voters resoundingly backed Democrat Mikie Sherrill in the state’s gubernatorial race, sweeping into power a clean energy advocate who says she will immediately freeze utility rates.

Virginia Department of Historic Resources

Democrats Win the Races for Virginia Governor, Georgia PSC Seats

Nov 5, 2025Public PolicyJames Downing

Democrats won elections in Virginia and Georgia that have implications for energy policy: offshore wind and data centers in Virginia and affordability in both.

N.J. Forum Explores Solutions to Looming Energy Shortfall

Nov 3, 2025PJMHugh Morley

Speakers at a New Jersey energy conference discussed how to confront the energy shortfall and get more power online.

Constellation Energy

Wanted: N.Y. Community Eager to Host Nuclear Reactor

Nov 2, 2025Public PolicyJohn Cropley

NYPA has begun to sound out developers on how they would partner to build advanced nuclear reactors and sound out communities on why they would be the right place to do it.

General Court of Massachusetts

Advocates in Massachusetts Continue Push for All-electric Construction

Oct 30, 2025Building DecarbonizationJon Lamson

A coalition of municipal officials and climate advocates in Massachusetts are renewing a push for the expansion of a state program allowing a select number of municipalities to ban fossil fuel hookups in new building construction and renovation projects.

Southern Alliance for Clean Energy

FPL Leading Southeast in Solar Buildout, SACE Report Finds

Oct 29, 2025State and Local PolicyJohn Cropley

Solar power generation will expand strongly but not uniformly in Southeast states through the 2020s, the Southern Alliance for Clean Energy says in its annual solar report.

DOE

Options for Clean Dispatchable Power Each Have Caveats

Oct 27, 2025NYISOJohn Cropley

All seven clean energy technologies evaluated for a new report might someday help New York reach its decarbonization goals, but each would require innovation and support to reach that potential.

Government of Ontario

IESO Considers How to Grow Ontario’s Economy amid Deepening Trade War

Oct 27, 2025IESOMichael Brooks

IESO is considering ways to grow Ontario’s economy and secure its energy supply without relying on trade with its U.S. neighbors, just as President Donald Trump launched another salvo in his ongoing trade war on Canada.

N.Y. Renewables Conference Focuses on Near-term Goals, Post-Trump Hopes

Oct 26, 2025NYISOJohn Cropley

State policymakers and industry leaders at the Alliance for Clean Energy New York’s Fall Conference offered messages of full support even as they acknowledged the federal roadblocks thrown in their path.

CEC

UC San Diego Researchers Claim Battery Recycling Breakthrough

Oct 22, 2025State and Local PolicyDavid Krause

A research team in San Diego has developed a new method for recycling lithium-ion batteries in California as electric vehicle and energy storage sales boom across the world.

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