** NextEra Energy and Salt River Project announce plans to develop Arizona’s largest wind facility on private land near Flagstaff.
** Wyoming Republican U.S. Sen. Cynthia Lummis blocks one of President Biden’s EPA picks over the administration’s handling of a haze rule affecting one of her state’s coal power plants.
** A Montana federal judge orders NorthWestern Energy to halt construction of a pipeline under the Yellowstone River that would serve a proposed 175 MW natural gas power plant.
** St. Paul, Minnesota, plans to declare a climate emergency this week as it maintains its pledge to reach net zero carbon emissions from city operations by 2030.
** The Missouri Public Service Commission has approved a request filed by Ameren Missouri to decrease the Energy Efficiency Investment Charge (EEIC) that appears on the monthly bills of Ameren electric customers. It amounts to an average $1.59 decrease for residential customers.
** Michigan-based electric vehicle startup Bollinger Motors dropped the surprise news today that it will indefinitely postpone work on passenger electric pickup trucks, its original focus, to concentrate on medium-duty commercial electric trucks, Reuters reports.
World
** Iran-backed Yemeni fighters launched drone strikes on the United Arab Emirates that caused explosions and a deadly fire outside the capital, Abu Dhabi, ratcheting up security risks in the oil-exporting region at a critical time.
** Russia may be able to deliver only about half of its scheduled increases in crude production over the next six months, joining the ranks of OPEC+ nations that are struggling to ramp up even as fuel demand rebounds from the pandemic.
** A group of Europe’s leading metal producers has called on the continent’s politicians to deploy a package of measures including state aid and tapping national gas reserves to ease the regional power crisis and avert further smelter shutdowns.
** BP, Shell and utility Iberdrola were among the winners of seabed rights to develop Scottish offshore wind projects, in an auction which raised nearly 700 million pounds ($958 million) for public spending.
** U.S. Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm will travel to Mexico this week for talks, with the government’s planned overhaul of the Mexican electricity market potentially on the agenda, President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said on Monday.