** India is looking at storing some low priced U.S. oil in facilities there as its local storage is full, oil minister Dharmendra Pradhan told CNBC TV18 news channel. India’s plan could be similar to a move by Australia, which last month said it would build up an emergency oil stockpile initially by buying crude to store in the U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve to take advantage of low oil prices.
** Devon Energy Corp. announced that management will present at the J.P. Morgan Energy, Power & Renewables Conference at 1:40 p.m. ET on Tuesday, June 16, 2020. The presentation will be available to the public via webcast.
** Wisconsin utility Alliant Energy proposes to spend $900 million on six solar projects totaling 675 MW of capacity, which it says will save ratepayers $2 billion over the next three decades.
** Recent coal plant closure announcements in North Dakota and Wisconsin are among more than a dozen announced so far this year across the U.S.
** A federal judge cancels oil and gas leases on 470 square miles of federal land in Montana and Wyoming, ruling the BLM did not do enough to protect greater sage grouse.
** A new report predicts Wyoming could lose up to $1.5 billion in revenue over the next two years because of collapsing energy prices and coronavirus crisis.
** Experts believe distributed solar industry may be starting to recover from the damage of the coronavirus pandemic.
** A new survey finds that Hawaii’s solar industry lost $6.7 million in revenue between mid-March and mid-April due to the coronavirus crisis.
** Colorado regulators are considering an agreement that would allow Xcel Energy to move forward with a $23.4 million project of seven microgrids incorporating energy storage.
** A Colorado county is looking at changing its building codes in a bid to decrease greenhouse gas emissions.
** Twenty-one Democratic senators and House members on Tuesday wrote to FERC asking the agency to reject a petition that would effectively end the practice of solar net metering, which pays rooftop solar owners for the power they send back to the grid. The lawmakers wrote that Congress expressly gave states — not FERC — authority over net metering, and that approving the petition would give the federal agency the authority to set “rates, terms and conditions” for net metering programs active in 45 states.
** The president of the union representing 7,500 EPA workers around the U.S. is pushing back on the agency’s announced plans to bring employees back to its regional offices in Atlanta, Seattle and Lenexa, Kan.
** EDF Action is spending six figures on 15-second online ads in Phoenix targeting EPA’s review of a chemical called trichloroethylene, or TCE. The agency’s draft risk evaluation in February warned of cancer and other health risks from TCE, which is used in degreasing solvents, dry cleaning and other products.
** The city of Oakland, Calif., unlawfully passed an ordinance barring coal from being transported through a rail-to-ship terminal, a split panel of 9th Circuit judges ruled on Tuesday.