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Retailers fear Minnesota legislation would allow utilities to corner EV charging market

Charged

A proposed state law in Minnesota has brought the issue of utility ownership of public EV charging to the fore. Another provision of the proposed law would require utilities to file transportation electrification plans every three years, and it’s a single sentence in this section that has folks up in arms. Source: Utility Di v e

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Solar Net Metering Under Threat as Shadowy Group Demands Intervention in State Policies

GreenTechMedia

Last week, the New England Ratepayers Association ( NERA ) filed a petition with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, asking it to declare "exclusive federal jurisdiction over wholesale energy sales from generation sources located on the customer side of the retail meter.”

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Red Eléctrica completes first demand response auction

Smart Energy International

The peninsular electricity system will now have a total of 497MW of demand response available from consumers and retailers who participated in the first active demand response auction, organised by Spanish system operator Red Eléctrica. The outcome of the auction will be applicable between 1 November 2022 to 31 October 2023.

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Demand Response Industry Asks Feds to Open States to Energy Market Competition

GreenTechMedia

Now FERC is being asked to put that authority to a new use: ending a decade-old provision allowing individual states to opt out of letting demand response companies enlist customers to turn down their energy use to support the power grid. “But if the aggregations do include demand response, the opt-out can apply,” she said.

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Is Florida’s proposed infrastructure law anti-EV or pro-competition?

Charged

Florida, along with several other states, generally prohibits any entity other than a regulated utility from selling electricity to retail customers. In a related development, Florida Senator Jeff Brandes recently wrote an op-ed in which he called for utilities to eliminate peak demand charges for EV charging stations.

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Poll: British public 'overwhelmingly' backs robust supply chain deforestation laws

Business Green

Of almost 1,700 adults polled, 68 per cent said they supported setting a target date in law to remove all deforestation from UK supply chains, with just four per cent opposed to such a move, according to the survey, which was commissioned by WWF. Further details on the proposed legislation are expected to emerge in the coming months.

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The Inflation Reduction Act is Working. So is America.

E2 Environmental Entrepreneurs

E2’s just-released analysis of the economic benefits since the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) was signed into law one year ago shows that private companies have announced more than $86 billion in investments in 210 major clean energy projects in 38 states. All of that filters down to local restaurants, hotels, building suppliers and retailers.

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