"President Donald Trump has dealt blow after blow to the Rural Energy for America Program, which has helped farmers save on their energy bills by going solar for nearly two decades. Now, REAP’s proponents see a chance to undo some of the damage." 🚜 📜 www.canarymedia.com/articles/foo...

"Leases on some 300,000 two- and three-year-old electric vehicles will expire this year...and many of those cars will return to the market as used cars. ...The sudden influx is giving consumers affordable electric vehicle options when gasoline prices have surged past $4 a gallon..." 🔌 🚗

"Solar energy generation this summer is expected to grow 17% over 2025 production, helping meet rising peaks during the hottest months of the year, the U.S. Energy Information Administration forecast April 6 in its most recent Short Term Energy Outlook." ☀️ www.utilitydive.com/news/solar-w...

"Local opposition to solar has long been an obstacle...But some communities are working to reverse local restrictions, citing the tax benefits and jobs the projects bring and the lease payments from energy companies that can provide stable income to farmers in a volatile industry."

"As Americans continue to struggle with soaring power prices, about half the states in the U.S. are considering legislation to pave the way for residents to adopt plug-in solar and start generating some of their own electricity from their own backyard or porch." ☀️ 🔌

"By attacking Iran and threatening to seize its oil while taking extraordinary measures to block clean energy back in the US, Donald Trump has inadvertently highlighted the dangerous volatility of the fossil fuel era, critics say." 🛢️ 📈 💰

"The blockade of the Strait of Hormuz as well as repeated strikes on the world’s largest L.N.G. export complex in Qatar have knocked roughly 28 million tons of supply from the market this year...

"The US has caused an eye-watering $10tn in global damages to the world over the past three decades through its vast planet-heating emissions, with a quarter of this economic pain inflicted upon itself, new research has found." 🏭 ⚠️

"The Trump administration has not received any pushback on its calls to ramp up oil production amid the war in Iran, one of President Donald Trump’s top energy advisers said Monday." 🏭 ⚠️

@industriouslabs.bsky.social surveyed Bootheel residents about the future of the Magnitude 7 Metals smelter. 72% support reopening, in a community that lost nearly 500 jobs when it closed. Full breakdown from Renew Missouri’s Jessica Polk Sentell: www.linkedin.com/pulse/what-m...

"Investor-owned utilities’ profit margins widened last year...IOUs kept as profit an average of 14.6 cents of every dollar they collected from customers in 2025, up from 12.8 cents of every dollar from 2021 to 2024, EPI said Thursday." 💰 📈 🔌

"House Democrats are putting their energy policy priorities forward in a new bill...[It] would restore climate-friendly energy tax credits repealed by Republicans and prevent the Trump administration from imposing burdens on renewables." 💼 ✅

"The White House is (still) getting energy from solar panels that President Trump's predecessors put on its roof, Axios has learned. Why it matters: The panels have somehow endured through Trump's criticism of renewable energy and his Democratic predecessors." ☀️ 🔌

"Oil prices retreated from the four-year highs hit overnight, but the grim outlook in the energy markets has put the White House in a tough spot on whether to approve the release of U.S. strategic oil supplies." 🛢️ 📈 💰 www.politico.com/news/2026/03...

"Companies say President Trump’s climate overhaul makes it tough to frame their future emissions plans and prepare for what they see as inevitable environmental restrictions—particularly as their goals extend beyond the president’s term." 🏭 ⚠️

"Essentially everyone agrees: Americans shouldn’t pay higher electric bills to feed AI data centers’ insatiable demand for power... Lots of states have decided the answer is a ​“large load tariff” — ...special utility rates and requirements designed for huge energy users, like data centers." 🔌 💰

"Trump didn’t say the words “climate change” during the State of the Union, but it loomed large over his 108-minute speech as he touted his “drill, baby, drill” agenda and derided Joe Biden’s “green new scam”." ⚠️ ♻️

"U.S. power plant owners and operators plan to retire nearly 11 gigawatts (GW) of utility-scale electric generating capacity from the U.S. power grid this year... The plans may be more subject to change than usual, with policy shifts recently delaying retirements at several coal plants." 🏭 ⚠️

"The Environmental Protection Agency plans this week to loosen restrictions on coal-burning power plants, allowing them to emit more hazardous pollutants including mercury, a powerful neurotoxin that can impair babies’ brain development, internal agency documents show." 🏭 ⚠️

"The Trump administration claims its latest move to gut climate regulations and end all greenhouse gas standards for vehicles will save Americans money...its own analysis indicates that the new rule will push up gas prices, and that the benefits of the rollback are unlikely to outweigh the costs."💰📈

"President Donald Trump plans to announce an executive order on Wednesday directing the U.S. Department of Defense to buy electricity from coal-fired power plants." 🏭 ⚠️

"As the Trump administration promotes U.S. natural gas exports, federal analysts warn that shipping massive volumes abroad could raise costs for consumers at home... The Department of Energy’s Energy Information Administration expects gas prices...to soar to about $4.60 in 2027." 📈💰🏭

A proposed Misosuri solar moratorium would "...halt all work on commercial-scale solar power installations and direct the state Department of Natural Resources to issue rules on their “construction, placement and operation.”" ☀️ ⚠️

"Missouri State Senator Cindy O’Laughlin (R-18) introduced Senate Bill 849 (SB 849), which would halt all ongoing and new utility-scale solar construction in the state until environmental rules governing construction, placement, and operation are established." ‼️ ☀️

"Utilities asked regulators for permission to extract a lot more money from ratepayers last year. Electric and gas utilities requested almost $31 billion worth of rate increases in 2025...compared to $15 billion worth of rate increases in 2024. " 📈 💰

"The U.S. power sector is in an all-out sprint...to get data centers online faster... But there’s a second capacity crunch right around the corner, one currently being masked by the data center rush — and exacerbated by the resulting delays in coal plant retirements." 🏭 ‼️

“For many communities, they’ve been going through the stages of grief,” said Hoover. “First was disbelief, because they know the merits of these projects. They know how badly it’s needed by the community." ‼️ 💰

"A data center in the Crossroads is using the clean energy loan for its chilling equipment. Supporters hope that the loans will encourage the projects to be more environmentally friendly. Critics want the city to do more to regulate the developments." ♻️ 💰 www.kcur.org/housing-deve...

"As Missouri’s legislative session begins, lawmakers face a clear and urgent challenge: rising electricity costs, growing demand and the responsibility to ensure reliable, affordable power for Missouri families and businesses."📈💰⚡ missouriindependent.com/2026/01/15/g...

"Facing rising demand and aggressive load growth projections, utilities are rolling out massive spending plans. Now they’ll have to walk a fine line with regulators and ratepayers." 📈⚖️ www.utilitydive.com/news/utility...

"All told, the U.S. notched 23 billion-dollar weather and climate disasters in 2025, which claimed 276 lives and caused $115 billion in damages, according to a new analysis from the research group Climate Central." 🌪️ 🌩️ ‼️

"New digital meter socket adapters from Tesla and others make home solar, battery, and EV charging installs a snap. But only if utilities let homes use them."⚡🚗🏡 www.canarymedia.com/articles/dis...

"-as electricity requests from data centers exceeded existing supplies, sounding the alarm over power shortfalls, and making Fisk and other plants like it suddenly profitable." 🚨💰 www.reuters.com/business/ene...

"A new report by Oxford-based Aurora Energy Research detailed how adding battery storage to a site could improve data centers’ power quality, provide flexibility and reduce transmission congestion, while offering an opportunity to reduce emissions." 🔋 👏

"...we’ll need to generate enough new electricity in the next five years to power half of all U.S. homes. That herculean task will require laying thousands of miles of new gas pipelines, building transmission lines and substations, and constructing new generation facilities across the country." ⚡🚨

"Each year, an estimated 80 million U.S. utility customers have trouble affording their monthly heat and electricity bills....Rural utility customers face unique challenges around access to fuel and affordability programs, and they often live in older, less energy-efficient homes..." ⚠️ 🔌

"The world is clamoring for more electrons. It’s getting them from solar and wind. Between January and September, the two clean-energy sources grew fast enough to more than offset all new demand worldwide, according to data from energy research firm Ember." ☀️ ⚡

"A House subcommittee on Wednesday advanced several pieces of legislation to weaken energy efficiency programs, cancel standards for manufactured homes and eliminate some home rebates, building codes and job training programs." ‼️ ⚡

"The Department of Energy has restructured...[shifting] away from renewable energy and toward both fossil fuels and nuclear energy. The news came with no fanfare beyond a statement about the changes being necessary to better execute the Trump administration’s “American energy dominance” agenda." ⚠️ 💼

"Sales of gas-only vehicles are down by 31% from their peak, while electric vehicle sales are growing rapidly worldwide, largely due to China." ⛽ ⚡ 🇨🇳 www.canarymedia.com/articles/ele...

Thanks to Renew Missouri, clean energy options will be available for use with the incoming Kansas City data center. We remain hopeful that the developers, along with others across the nation, will see the advantage in opting to use these cleaner, cheaper sources of energy to the benefit of all ☀️ 🔌

"According to a report out this week from PPA marketplace LevelTen Energy, 76% of solar projects and 86% of wind projects slated to come online by the end of 2028 are already safe-harbored. Those projects account for around 33 gigawatts of capacity eligible for tax credits." ☀️ ✅

"Over the past 10 years, global renewable energy investment has exceeded a cumulative $4 trillion, but less than 1% of this investment has reached low-income markets." 📈 🌬️ 💸 about.bnef.com/insights/cle...

"A new emissions gap report released by the United Nations Environment Programme suggests that a decade of global climate policy under the Paris Agreement has reduced the projected maximum global warming for this century to less than 3 degrees Celsius for the first time." 📉 ☀️

"Over the next five years, the country will build nearly 67 gigawatts’ worth of new utility-scale batteries, per data from research firm BloombergNEF, enough to send almost 284 gigawatt-hours of stored-up electricity back to the grid." 🔋 ⚡

"Annual energy investment needs to increase by 30% from current levels to get the world onto a 2 °C pathway. A decade on and the world is still way off track to meet the Paris Agreement goals. No major economy is on track to meet its targets and the clock is ticking." ⚠️ 🚨

"The first half of 2025 was the costliest on record for major disasters in the US...according to a climate non-profit that has resurrected work axed by Donald Trump’s administration that tracked the biggest disasters." 🚨 ⚠️

This clean energy project tracker logs new clean economy projects, expansions, and production announced across America by congressional district and amount invested ♻️ ⚡ e2.org/clean-econom...

"Regulators are doing away with controversial regulations that required banks to plan for losses in the event of climate-related events, according to an announcement Thursday." 🚨 ⚠️

"Utilities in the United States are set to invest nearly as much between now and 2029 as they did in the entire previous decade. ...Between 2025 and 2029, the capital expenditures are likely to hit $1.1 trillion, nearly matching the combined $1.3 trillion spent from 2015 to 2024." ⚡ 💰