Revolution Wind fights on

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WIND

• Rhode Island Gov. Dan McKee seeks a one-on-one meeting with Trump to make his case that completing Revolution Wind would save jobs and lower energy prices. (WPRI)

• A federal judge in Massachusetts expresses skepticism about a multistate lawsuit challenging Trump’s executive order prohibiting offshore wind development, noting that the administration’s anti-wind policies would remain in place even if the order were vacated. (Rhode Island Current)

SOLAR

• Global solar deployment hit 380 GW in the first half of this year, a 64% increase from the same period in 2024, a new Ember report finds. (Utility Dive)

• As state and local leaders defend offshore wind against the federal government, solar developers should take note and double down on state and local engagement, a clean energy advocate says. (Latitude Media)

• President Trump’s rollback of clean energy incentives threatens the Nature Conservancy’s ambitious plan to build more than 500 MW of solar arrays and battery storage on former coal mineland in Virginia, Tennessee, and Kentucky. (Virginia Center for Investigative Journalism)

POLITICS

• House Republicans narrowly approve an Energy Department funding bill that includes a 46% cut to the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy and the closure of the Office of Clean Energy Demonstrations, but boosts nuclear funding. (Axios)

• House lawmakers debate two bills aimed at reviving coal production, with Democrats calling the legislation a symbolic but ultimately useless attempt to resuscitate the dying industry. (Inside Climate News)

• Japan confirms it will buy $7 billion worth of LNG from the U.S. each year, while the U.S. will lower tariffs on Japanese imports. (Reuters)

NUCLEAR

• Startup Oklo announces plans to build a nuclear fuel recycling facility in Tennessee, while Curio says it’s also developing nuclear recycling technology. (Axios)

COURTS

• The U.S. Justice Department asks a judge to block New York from enacting its new Climate Change Superfund Act, escalating the Trump administration’s attacks on polluter pay laws around the country. (New York Times)

GRID

• Hitachi Energy announces it will build a $457 million transformer factory in Virginia to help address a bottleneck in transformers that’s slowing grid expansion, as well as invest $500 million into grid equipment elsewhere in the country. (Cardinal News, Utility Dive)

OVERSIGHT

• President Trump’s two Republican nominees for the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission say they’ll protect the agency’s independence at their Senate confirmation hearing. (Politico)

ELECTRIC VEHICLES

• Ford reports EV sales were up 19.3% in August from the same month last year as federal incentives wane, while GM reports an all-time monthly EV sales record in August. (CNBC)

CARBON CAPTURE

• Companies in Louisiana and Wyoming are considering using carbon capture at gas-fired plants to support large data center projects, but the technology still hasn’t proven itself at commercial scale. (E&E News)