Good morning. Wind and solar developers are racing a July 4 tax-credit deadline, Microsoft's clean-energy retreat is colliding with Virginia's data-center boom, and grid decisions from South Carolina to Wyoming are turning into ratepayer politics. The power boom has reached its paperwork phase, where deadlines, rules and lawsuits decide who actually builds.
Top Stories
RENEWABLE DEVELOPERS RACE JULY 4 TAX-CREDIT CLOCK
Wyoming Public Media
Wind and solar developers must break ground by July 4 or risk losing the federal tax credits that underpin project economics.
MICROSOFT CLEAN-POWER RETREAT HITS VIRGINIA
Inside Climate News
Microsoft is reconsidering its 24/7 clean-energy pledge as Virginia's data-center buildout strains the state's climate and power plans.
SOUTH CAROLINA APPROVES $5B GAS BET
Utility Dive
Regulators approved Dominion and Santee Cooper's 2,180 MW Canadys plant without the cost cap opponents wanted for ratepayers.
SENATE DUO TARGETS PRESIDENTIAL ENERGY-PROJECT ATTACKS
Heatmap News
The FREEDOM Act would limit presidential attacks on permitted energy projects while polling shows voters want faster infrastructure approvals.
NORTHEAST STATES MAP OFFSHORE HVDC GRID
Utility Dive
Nine states and D.C. are sketching an offshore transmission framework just as the Trump administration drops its wind-freeze appeal.
Power & Grid
WISCONSIN GROUP FIGHTS GIANT DATA-CENTER GRID LINE
Wisconsin Public Radio
Farmers and homeowners are suing to stop the MariBell line, arguing a 200-foot-tower buildout would cross their land without serving their towns.
MICHIGAN GOP SEEKS HIGHWAY ROUTE FOR POWER LINES
Michigan Advance
House Republicans are pushing highway rights-of-way as a transmission siting shortcut, another sign states are hunting for buildable corridors.
WYOMING EYES POWER TAX FOR DATA-CENTER BILLS
Oil City News
Lawmakers are weighing an electric-generation tax that could hit new data-center power plants and redirect revenue toward customer bills.
CALIFORNIA SOLAR PASSES GAS FOR FIVE MONTHS
U.S. Energy Information Administration
Solar topped natural gas in CAISO through May as batteries tripled discharge and the region leaned harder on imported power.
ARIZONA CO2 BATTERY GETS GOOGLE-BACKED TEST
Utility Dive
Energy Dome and Salt River Project plan a 19 MW, 10-hour battery at Coronado, tying long-duration storage to Google's data-center power push.
Data Centers
NORTH TEXAS COUNTIES FACE DATA-CENTER LEGAL THREATS
KERA
Rural counties trying to slow data-center projects are running into developer lawsuit threats before they can turn public frustration into rules.
PENNSYLVANIA DATA-CENTER FIGHT SCRAMBLES POLITICS
The Guardian
Josh Shapiro wants the AI buildout, local opponents want a pause, and the Pennhurst fight is turning data centers into campaign material.
PENNSYLVANIA WRITES DATA-CENTER RULEBOOK
Pennsylvania DCED
The Shapiro administration's GRID standards lay out the community, infrastructure and impact tests data centers must meet for state support.
UNIONS SPLIT OVER DATA-CENTER BUILDOUT
Bloomberg Law
Building-trades unions see AI data centers as job engines while other labor groups warn the same technology could displace workers.
AI DATA CENTERS BECOME CITY-SCALE INFRASTRUCTURE
Engineering News-Record
Hyperscale AI campuses are forcing a new playbook around electricity, cooling, workforce and speed-to-power constraints.
Stat of the Day
30%+
Share of project costs the expiring federal credit can cover
Projects that miss the July 4 construction-start deadline fall back to a narrower route to qualify before the end of 2027.
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