** The Biden administration plans to publish a draft study by the end of this year that could have implications for the future of new gas exports. The administration said earlier this year that it would work to more fully assess the impacts of exporting U.S.-produced natural gas on climate change, national security and economics.
** Boeing CEO Kelly Ortberg said that employees furloughed during a seven-week strike by factory workers would be repaid by the company for lost wages, but it would proceed with plans to cut about 10% of its global workforce.
** The new CEO of American Electric Power promises to embrace new large load opportunities through projects like data centers, and says transmission infrastructure will be needed.
** A new report finds that Georgia is leading the country in electric vehicle-related job creation, but is ranked just 22nd for EV sales.
** Duke Energy Florida’s costs of restoring power after three hurricanes this year could total about $1.1 billion to $1.3 billion, with the utility planning to seek state approval to recoup money from customers.
** The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) last week announced that a clean energy coalition in Arvada, Colorado – a suburb of Denver – will receive $900,000 to demonstrate the viability of hydrogen fleet vehicles. The project is part of $18.6 million for 15 projects that will drive innovation in equitable clean transportation and provide first responders with the tools they need to properly respond to calls involving zero emission vehicles.
World
** A Taipei-based renewable energy firm has commissioned the world’s largest offshore floating solar power plant. Hexa Renewables has installed a 373MWac (megawatt alternating current) solar array project in Changhua County on the western coast of Taiwan.
** India’s Adani Power has further reduced electricity supply to neighbouring Bangladesh as it seeks to recover more than $800 million in dues, according to data from Bangladesh’s grid operator and two sources familiar with the move.
** A robot that has spent months inside the ruins of a nuclear reactor at the tsunami-hit Fukushima Daiichi plant delivered a tiny sample of melted nuclear fuel on Thursday, in what plant officials said was a step toward beginning the cleanup of hundreds of tons of melted fuel debris.
** China, the world’s bigggest emitter of greenhouse gases, on Friday passed a new energy law to promote carbon neutrality, state media reported, as Beijing moves ahead with its pledge to decarbonise its economy by 2060.
** Power was restored to parts of Cuba a day after Hurricane Rafael swept over the island, leaving its 10 million inhabitants without electricity for the second time in a month.
