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Inflation Reduction Act — 5 min read The promise of 10 years of tax credits in the Inflation Reduction Act allowed rooftop solar company PosiGen to secure $100 million in investments for its company, increase its footprint from four to 15 states and triple its workforce to 750 people. The credits also helped Enphase Energy, which produces inverters and batteries for rooftop solar systems, move most of its manufacturing from Mexico and Asia to the United States.

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“Horrifying.” That’s what one consumer advocate calls a projected 90% increase in electricity prices for customers of electric utility, Entergy Louisiana, between 2018 and 2030. Similar spikes in the cost of electricity are happening across the United States driven by the need to run data centers and power-hungry industries, replace old power plants and repair damaged infrastructure from more frequent storms, floods and fires supercharged by climate change.

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Gulf Coast — 14 min read Listen to the related Sea Change podcast from WWNO/WRKF. Jackson Voss loves his alma mater, Louisiana State University. He appreciates that his undergraduate education was paid for by a program dreamed up by an oil magnate and that he received additional scholarships from ExxonMobil and Shell. But the socially conscious Louisiana native was also aware of what the support of those companies seemed to buy — silence.

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The explosive growth of data centers around the country — driven in large part by the burgeoning use of artificial intelligence — could come at a “staggering” cost for average residents with skyrocketing electricity bills. A new report from Harvard’s Electricity Law Initiative says unless something changes, all U.S. consumers will pay billions of dollars to build new power plants to serve Big Tech. Data centers are forecast to account for up to 12% of all U.S. electricity demand by 2028.

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Billions of taxpayer dollars once intended to help fight climate change by subsidizing  capture and storage of carbon dioxide may instead go to fossil fuel companies to help boost production of oil — one of the main drivers of climate change. In a Feb. 19 call with investors, Vicki Hollub, chief executive officer of Occidental Petroleum, said she’s had several conversations with President Donald Trump, arguing the “business case” for federal support for carbon capture.