** The Biden administration is set to release a federal strategy this week to implement an ambitious plan to build 500,000 charging stations for electric vehicles across the country and ultimately transform the U.S. auto industry.
** California’s 26-year-old program to get more people to put solar panels on their homes has been wildly successful, but state regulators may lower the incentives for people to go solar in a bid to reduce electricity bills for the rest of residents in the most populous U.S. state.
** The EIA reports U.S. jet fuel inventories as of late November were at their lowest level since late 2014, according to data in our Weekly Petroleum Status Report. Refineries produced less jet fuel in October compared with this summer, and since August, jet fuel demand has increased to near pre-pandemic levels.
** General Motors is considering a site in Lansing, Michigan, for a $2.5 billion battery cell manufacturing plant.
** U.S. Interior Secretary Deb Haaland says her agency is currently processing 36 solar, four wind and four geothermal projects proposed for Western public lands.
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** Halliburton is in talks with Exxon Mobil about the stake the U.S. oil company is seeking to sell in the West Qurna-1 oil field, Iraqi oil minister Ihsan Abdul Jabbar told reporters. If the talks with Halliburton, an oil services company, fail, Iraq will step in to buy it, the minister added.
** Taiwanese voters will decide this Saturday on a new LNG terminal considered key for the chipmaking powerhouse to secure its energy supply but facing attacks from conservationists – and from an opposition party eager to wrong-foot the government.
** The European Commission will propose a system for EU countries to jointly procure gas to form strategic reserves of the fuel, a measure drawn up in response to soaring energy prices, according to a document shared with countries ahead of a summit this week.
** Germany’s new government said Monday it is extending the country’s current system of incentive payments for buyers of electric and hybrid cars for a year but then plans to impose tougher requirements for vehicles to qualify for the support.