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Affordable EVs Are Coming - Just Not From Tesla

4 days ago | heatmap.news | Andrew Moseman

Here is an odd sentence to write in the year 2025: One of the most interesting electric vehicles on the horizon is the Nissan Leaf. The Japanese automaker last week revealed new images and specs of the redesign it had teased a few months ago. The new Leaf, which will arrive in 2026, is a small crossover that’s sleeker than, say, a Tesla Model Y, but more spacious than the previous hatchback versions of the car.
The Renewable Energy Investor Optimistic About the Future

5 days ago | heatmap.news | Jael Holzman

Today’s conversation is with Mary King, a vice president handling venture strategy at Aligned Capital, which has invested in developers like Summit Ridge and Brightnight. I reached out to Mary as a part of the broader range of conversations I’ve had with industry professionals since it has become clear Republicans in Congress will be taking a chainsaw to the Inflation Reduction Act.
Democratic Climate Hawk Fights Battery Storage Project

1 week ago | heatmap.news | Jael Holzman

1. Nantucket County, Massachusetts – The SouthCoast offshore wind project will be forced to abandon its existing power purchase agreements with Massachusetts and Rhode Island if the Trump administration’s wind permitting freeze continues, according to court filings submitted last week.
The Trump Solar Farm Slowdown

1 week ago | heatmap.news | Jael Holzman

It’s no longer possible to say the Trump administration is moving solar projects along as one of the nation’s largest solar farms is being quietly delayed and even observers fighting the project aren’t sure why. Months ago, it looked like Trump was going to start greenlighting large-scale solar with an emphasis out West.
The GOP’s Big Permitting Reform Idea Is Mostly Dead

1 week ago | heatmap.news | Matthew Zeitlin

The Republican effort at permitting reform by way of the reconciliation process appears to have failed — or at least gotten washed out in the “Byrd Bath.”Democrats on the Senate Budget Committee announced late Thursday night that the chamber’s parliamentarian had advised that several provisions of the new reconciliation bill text violated the “Byrd Rule” and thus were subject to a 60-vote threshold instead of simple majority rule.
The Senate Bill’s Anti-China Clean Energy Killer

1 week ago | heatmap.news | Emily Pontecorvo

In the House’s version of Trump’s One, Big, Beautiful Bill Act Republicans proposed denying tax credits to clean energy companies whose supply chains contained any ties — big or small — to China. The rules were so administratively and logistically difficult, industry leaders said, that they were effectively the same as killing the tax credits altogether. Now the Senate is out with a different proposal that, at least on its face, seems to be more flexible and easier to comply with.
Chris Wright’s Worldview Is All Over the Senate Mega-Bill

1 week ago | heatmap.news | Matthew Zeitlin

As the Senate Finance Committee worked on its version of the reconciliation bill that would, among things, overhaul the Inflation Reduction Act, there was much speculation among observers that there could be a carve out for sources of power like geothermal, hydropower, and nuclear, which provide steady generation and tend to be more popular among Republicans, along the lines of the slightly better treatment received by advanced nuclear in the House bill.
It Could Have Been So Much Worse for Climate Tech

1 week ago | heatmap.news | Katie Brigham

When I reached out to climate tech investors on Tuesday to gauge their reaction to the Senate’s proposed overhaul of the clean energy tax credits, I thought I might get a standard dose of can-do investor optimism. Though the proposal from the Senate Finance committee would cut tax credits for wind and solar, it would preserve them for other sources of clean energy, such as geothermal, nuclear, and batteries — areas of significant focus and investment for many climate-focused venture firms.
Residential Solar’s No Good, Very Bad Day

1 week ago | heatmap.news | Matthew Zeitlin

The residential solar rescue never happened. Shares in several residential solar companies plummeted Tuesday as the market reacted to the Senate Finance Committee’s reconciliation language, which maintains the House bill’s restriction on investment tax credits for residential solar installers and its scrapping of the tax credit for homeowners who buy their own systems.
The Senate GOP’s Seismic Overhaul of Clean Energy Tax Credits, Explained

1 week ago | heatmap.news | Emily Pontecorvo

The Senate Finance committee published its highly anticipated tax proposal for Trump’s One Big, Beautiful Bill on Monday night, including a new plan to revise the nation’s clean energy tax credits. Senate Republicans widened the aperture slightly compared to the House version of the bill, extending tax credits for geothermal energy, batteries, and hydropower, and preserving “transferability” — a crucial rule that allows companies to sell their tax credits for cash — for years to come.