The House will vote this week on H.R. 9340, testing bipartisan support for making large data centers pay the full grid costs required to serve them.

After installing 100 community batteries, Australia is testing utility ownership and revenue stacking models that could support wider deployment.

Indiana House Democrats want lawmakers to open their own NIPSCO review, adding a legislative track alongside the governor's regulatory investigation.

Indiana is seeking an investigation into NIPSCO's storm preparation, vegetation management and use of funds approved for grid reliability improvements.

Nigeria's distributed energy programs target 465 MW of new capacity as $1.3 billion in investment commitments build a power market beyond the grid.

Utilities are planning record grid investment, but Fitch warns that affordability pressure and regulatory resistance threaten timely cost recovery.

The Center for Rural Affairs is suing the United States after EPA terminated its $62.45 million Solar for All grant following a repeal of IRA funding.

Georgia regulators are investigating whether data centers on Georgia Power's Real-Time Pricing rate are shifting fuel costs onto residential customers.

Illinois' HB 4456 authorizes utility discount eligibility up to 300% of the poverty level, financed through fixed charges on business accounts as well.

Idaho's Supreme Court ruled two adjacent minor land divisions functioned as one subdivision, subjecting MLD filings to judicial review under state land use law.

The Williams Treaties First Nations announced a $700 million investment in Ontario's Darlington SMR project, backed by the largest Indigenous loan guarantee ever issued in Canada.

SEIA's new interactive map puts solar's farmland footprint against suburban sprawl and golf courses as Congress debates solar's role in the Farm Bill.

Power, water, permits, and capital are tightening simultaneously on the same projects. Executives need a framework for operating inside converging constraints, not resolving them one at a time.

Governor Meyer is pushing Delaware's PSC to freeze rates and restructure Delmarva's profit model as the utility seeks $68M in additional revenue from 344,000 customers starting July 9.

A Rhode Island bill would reopen questions about utility-owned generation, storage, reliability, and who should build the power system needed for demand growth.

Two Arizona rate cases approved increases of up to 300% for small rural water systems with aging infrastructure, reflecting a national pattern Pew and AWWA research puts at $2.1 trillion in need by 2050.

PJM and Talen Energy have filed at FERC to extend the Brandon Shores and H.A. Wagner reliability-must-run agreement to May 2031, citing transmission delays driven largely by data center load growth.

SolarEdge Nexis is gaining ground through new financing approvals. The move could help installers offer solar and storage with fewer sales barriers.

States that voted for President Trump in 2024 accounted for 74% of all solar capacity installed during the quarter, with TX, FL, OH, IN, MI, AZ, and MS ranking among the top ten states for new additions

Zurich Resilience Solutions analysis of 1,380 Southeast Asia renewable energy sites finds 75% of planned capacity at critical climate risk by 2030 and $165 billion in value at stake.