** Ohio regulators deny an appeal from data centers and manufacturers that allow special electric rates for large users to move forward, though one advocacy group vows to appeal to the state Supreme Court.
** Amid concerns that refinery closures could send gas prices soaring, California legislative leaders recently introduced a last-minute deal aimed at increasing oil production to shore up the struggling fossil-fuel industry while further restricting offshore drilling. The compromise, brokered by Gov. Gavin Newsom, Assembly Speaker Robert Rivas and Senate Pro Tem Mike McGuire, would streamline environmental approvals for new wells in oil-rich Kern County and increase oil production.
** A 585-acre South Dakota solar project receives up to $2.8 million in tax incentives that refund a portion of state sales and use taxes to offset development costs.
** The Trump administration moves to rescind the Biden-era federal Bureau of Land Management’s public lands rule that aimed to put conservation on a par with energy development, mining, and grazing.
** Xcel Energy plans to sell water rights originally intended for a coal plant that was never built to farmers in eastern Colorado.
** Last week’s ICE raid at Hyundai’s under-construction EV battery plant in Georgia will delay its opening, and will likely discourage future U.S. partnerships with foreign manufacturers that have been a hallmark of clean energy development.
** Republican U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson tells members of Trump’s cabinet that he supports Dominion Energy’s nearly-complete offshore wind farm near Virginia in an attempt to bolster a vulnerable Congress member who represents the area.
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** Malaysia, a hotspot for data centres, is reining in the pace of expansion in a move industry insiders and analysts expect will hinder China’s efforts to gain access to powerful chips that are crucial to improving its artificial intelligence capabilities.
** China launched construction on a power project to obild the world’s first large-scale turbine designed to run entirely on hydrogen. According to Interesting Engineering, the 30-megawatt turbine will be the centerpiece of a new closed-loop energy system, linking wind, solar, hydrogen storage, electrolysis, and even green ammonia production into a single hub.
** Ukraine struck Russia’s largest oil terminal on the Baltic Sea on Friday during one of its biggest overnight drone attacks in months. The aerial assault targeted the Primorsk oil port in the Leningrad region, the final station of the Baltic Pipeline System and a crucial hub for Russia’s maritime exports,
** Ukraine’s summer drone attacks on Russia’s oil infrastructure has sent gasoline prices climbing. Kyiv has been targeting Russian refineries for months, calling the attacks fair retribution for Moscow’s own barrages and an attempt to cut off energy revenues that fund Russia’s army.