December 18, 2024

The Department of Energy released a study yesterday that Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm said showed increasing exports of LNG would create economic risks for the U.S. and cause environmental damage.

The department this week also slashed the list of 10 potential National Interest Electric Transmission Corridors to just three much narrower corridors in the third phase of its designation process. 

And oil giant ExxonMobil said that it plans to build a large behind-the-meter generator that would burn natural gas the company produces and then sequester most of the resulting CO2 emissions in permanent underground storage. 

Here’s what else we had this week: 

• BOEM Sees Renewed Interest in Gulf of Mexico OSW 

• Calif. Energy Commission Approves EV Charging Plan 

• DOE Offers $15B Loan to PG&E to Support Reliability Goals 

• Is Public Power a Better Model for Meeting Data Center Demand? 

• Jigar Shah: ‘Loan Programs Office is Government Doing its Job Well’ 

• LPO Announces $1.25B Loan to Help EVgo Install 7,500 Fast Chargers 

• Mass. Clean Energy Trust Funds Grow amid Project Financing Challenges 

• Overheard at Raab Electricity Restructuring Roundtable: Dec. 13, 2024 

• Solar Industry Presents Policy Agenda for Trump, Congress 

• Strong 2025 Predicted for US Blue Hydrogen 

See you next week!