** Michigan pipeline activists raise conflict of interest concerns over Enbridge’s pick of a major Trump donor to replace Line 5 in the Straits of Mackinac.
** Closing arguments were scheduled Monday in a $300 million defamation lawsuit against Greenpeace over the nonprofit’s alleged role in attempting to derail construction on the Dakota Access pipeline.
** Inadequate inspections and quality control may have caused the manufacturing of a faulty Keystone XL pipeline that cracked and caused a major crude oil spill in North Dakota in 2019, according to a newly released report from regulators.
** Interior Secretary Doug Burgum says oil and gas companies drilling federal land are “customers” contributing to the nation’s “balance sheet” that should be thanked and accommodated.
** Texas experts say wind energy has strengthened the statewide power grid and along with solar pushed down prices by about $11 billion in 2022 alone, debunking Trump officials’ claims that renewables are driving up costs and destabilizing the grid.
World
** A massive compressed air energy storage facility has opened in central China, according to PV Magazine. The Nengchu-1 project began construction in 2022 and is now operating at full capacity. It is able to store 1,500 megawatt-hours of energy by compressing air into a massive abandoned underground salt mine in Yingcheng City, Hubei.
** Cuba reconnected its national electrical grid and restored power to the majority of the capital Havana by late on Sunday, energy officials said, nearly two days after an island-wide outage knocked out power to 10 million people.
** Brazilian oil giant Petrobras is taking a novel approach, using waste gas to power a bitcoin mining operation.
