** Texas county commissioners delay consideration of tax abatements for a $190 million, 1,700-acre solar farm amid opposition by residents and the lack of a draft agreement reported the Austin American-Statesman.
** A Turkish electric vehicle parts supplier announces it will open its first North American manufacturing plant in Calhoun, Georgia according to the Chattanooga Times Free Press.
** The New Orleans Advocate reports Entergy won’t pay for a woman’s car that was crushed when three 1,000-pound transformers slipped off a pole and fell on it during Hurricane Zeta.
** Ford plans to invest hundreds of millions of dollars in southeast Michigan to build electric vehicles and EV components according to a report by the Detroit News.
** San Francisco officials vote unanimously to ban natural gas connections in new buildings starting next year. That’s according to the San Francisco Chronicle.
** Former Alaska Gov. Bill Walker announced the formation of a new pipeline venture aiming to capitalize on the state’s North Slope natural gas resources reported the Anchorage Daily News.
** Xcel Energy might have to explain why its idling Comanche 3 coal plant in Colorado shouldn’t cease operations far sooner than 2069 reported the Mountain Town News.
** President-elect Joe Biden’s expected policy changes are worrying Wyoming businesses servicing the state’s fossil fuels industries.
** POLITICO reports that Senate Republicans are proposing $51.75 billion for the Energy Department, Army Corps of Engineers and Bureau of Reclamation — a $3.4 billion boost over current levels that would largely go to DOE’s work managing the nation’s nuclear stockpile.
** California Democrat Congressman Harley Rouda, chairman of the House Oversight environment subcommittee has conceded his reelection race to GOP challenger Michelle Steel. Rouda is a first-term Democrat in Orange County.
