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1 day ago | utilitydive.com | Diana DiGangi

Annual U.S. electricity consumption is expected to increase in 2025 and 2026, surpassing an all-time high reached last year and driving an expansion in generating capacity – largely in the form of solar and battery storage, said the Energy Information Administration in a Tuesday Short-Term Energy Outlook.

1 day ago | utilitydive.com | Brian Martucci

Federal tax credits that benefit energy developers, manufacturers and utilities face an early phaseout in a budget proposal released Monday by a key GOP-controlled House committee. The House Ways and Means Committee’s draft reconciliation package steps down the investment and production tax credits for nuclear power, wind, solar, batteries, geothermal and other clean energy technologies after 2028, and eliminates them completely after 2031.

1 day ago | utilitydive.com | Diana DiGangi

The Trump administration’s order for Equinor to stop work on its 810-MW Empire Wind 1 wind energy project offshore New York will force the company to terminate the project entirely if the situation isn’t resolved “within days,” an Equinor spokesperson said Monday. The stop work order has led to “an urgent and unsustainable situation,” the spokesperson told Utility Dive.

2 days ago | utilitydive.com | Brian Martucci

Dominion Energy’s Virginia subsidiary has until December to propose a virtual power plant pilot program with up to 450 MW of capacity under a state law signed May 2 by Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin. Residential, commercial and industrial customers are eligible for participation in the pilot, which must include incentives for at least 15 MW of residential battery additions.

2 days ago | utilitydive.com | Emma Louise Penrod

Increased coordination between 11 Western states could save up to $3.25 billion per year — but the states need not create a regional transmission organization or agree on clean energy policies to realize savings, according to a study led by researchers at the University of California San Diego. At the lower end of coordination, expanding energy imbalance markets in the West could realize between $330 million to $610 million in annual savings.