Trump is stalling EV adoption. Here’s how states can step up.
While President Trump attacks electric vehicles, a few states are charting a path to expand electric transportation and reduce residents’ costs, writes Katherine García at Sierra Club.
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Lower energy costs, community benefits drive 30% battery growth rate: RMI
The report arrives as the energy storage industry faces headwinds from tariffs, Treasury regulations and new White House restrictions on foreign-made bulk electrical components.
Blaze Equipment expands east with new Baltimore location and launches online ordering nationwide
Blaze expands nationwide with online ordering, rentals, equipment and expert support.
Meta, Apex Clean Energy agree to 144-MW Texas solar PPA
Meta will receive “exclusive rights to all environmental attributes associated with energy” from the project, including all renewable energy credits, according to Apex.
Climavision offers expanded weather forecasting to data centers
The company says it can help large loads better respond to changing weather conditions as data centers are asked to play a more active role in grid management.
Utilities, schools see growing value in electric buses for virtual power plants
By participating in programs that ease grid congestion, school districts can recoup thousands of dollars off the price of electric school buses.
It’s time for utility bill reform
Programs that serve broad public purposes should be financed through state general funds rather than hidden in your electric bill, writes Marc Brown at the Consumer Energy Alliance.
California tightens oversight of data center energy use, grid costs
Bills signed by Gov. Gavin Newsom include regulations aimed at ensuring data centers pay for infrastructure needed to serve them and bear a larger share of wildfire mitigation and liability costs.
Other New England states back Maine’s RTO adder complaint
The complaint at the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission is part of a trend of states seeking to end an extra 0.5% return utilities can earn for voluntarily joining a transmission organization.
Texas PUC adopts softened rules on data center interconnection
The Public Utility Commission of Texas backed off the standards it proposed in March, eliminating a non-refundable interconnection fee, halving its financial security requirement and extending energization milestone deadlines.
Federal judge restores $7B Solar for All program, says EPA illegally axed it
A Trump-appointed judge said the One Big Beautiful Bill Act did not convert the funding into “a lump-sum amount subject to EPA’s discretion.” Defendants acted contrary to Congress’ intent and with “no other statutory authority” when they terminated it, she said.
Newsom vetoes bill to create California PUC inspector general
Newsom signed several other bills with direct or indirect implications for electric utilities and power infrastructure stakeholders, including Assembly Bill 192 standing up the transmission infrastructure accelerator.
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