The Commission raised minimum import prices for grain-oriented electrical steel and transformer cores on 18 September; grid suppliers say EU mills cannot supply the volumes and grades transformers need.
A federal judge in Rhode Island ruled the EPA acted outside its statutory authority in ending already obligated Solar for All grants, in violation of the Administrative Procedure Act.
The PUCT adopted large-load rules without the proposed $50,000/MW non-refundable fee, set a flat $100,000 study fee and extended the missed-milestone notification window to 24 months.
TerraPower will rebid the EPC contract for the Kemmerer Natrium plant; Bechtel stays on site to finish the Sodium Test and Fill Facility and filed a WARN notice covering about 200 positions.
New rooftop connections after 5 March 2026 fall under a feed-in tariff capped at 12 years, with smart meters required and higher time-dependent rates for solar-plus-storage.
Benchmark Mineral Intelligence figures put August commissioning at 6,516 MW / 20,855 MWh, with China at 61%, Saudi Arabia 19% and Europe 11%.
New York approved a $3.26bn line while the offshore wind it was sized for keeps slipping. The mismatch is not a mistake — it is what building infrastructure against a statute rather than a pipeline looks like.
SEIA and Wood Mackenzie put cumulative US solar at 299.4 GWdc; Q2 added 11.4 GWdc, up 45% year on year, with developers rushing utility-scale projects ahead of a July safe-harbor deadline.
The New York PSC cleared the Propel NY transmission project on 17 September; opponents argued cancelled offshore wind made it unnecessary, but regulators said the state's statutory targets were unchanged.
California's governor rejected an inspector general for the utilities commission on budget and independence grounds, while signing laws that tighten data-center energy reporting and require new rate structures.
The funding backs next-generation geothermal technologies and resource exploration — a grant programme aimed at making the heat-under-everywhere resource dispatchable at scale.
