** Cheniere Energy Partners, L.P.announced that its subsidiary, Sabine Pass Liquefaction, LLChas priced its previously announced offering of Senior Secured Notes due 2030.The principal amount of the SPL 2030 Notes will be $2.0 billion and the SPL 2030 Notes will bear interest at a rate of 4.500% per annum. The closing of the offering is expected to occur on May 8, 2020.
** Illinois’ attorney general sues the companies that oversaw the demolition of a coal plant smokestack in Chicago, claiming the operation caused air pollution that harmed nearby residents.
** Buildings account for a vast majority of U.S. electricity consumption and represent a major source of load flexibility through energy efficiency and demand response, a report finds.
** Berkshire Hathaway CEO Warren Buffet regrets his $10 billion investment into an oil company last year and plans to invest more in wind and solar.
** Tesla postpones the first delivery of its semi-truck to 2021, citing battery supply constraints that could have slowed production on other models.
** Indigenous activist and author Winona LaDuke says oil companies are growing desperate to rush pipeline projects like Keystone XL and Line 3.
** Federal regulators agree to extend the public comment period for licensing a southern New Mexico nuclear waste disposal site.
** Pueblo, Colorado voters decide to keep Black Hills Energy as the city’s electricity provider for at least the next ten years by a significant margin.
** An Idaho man is planning to drive across the country in a truck he’s built to run entirely on solar power.
** Hilcorp Energy and BP Alaska are again requesting confidentiality for their responses to state queries about how Hilcorp will finance its $5.6 billion purchase of BP’s North Slope assets.
** Federal regulators agree to extend the public comment period for licensing a southern New Mexico nuclear waste disposal site.
** A candidate for News Mexico’s utilities regulator says utility scale solar and storage projects are needed as part of the lowest cost portfolio to replace the coal-fired San Juan Generating Station.