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📊“Roughly three-fourths of likely voters support expanding the electric grid, the survey found. About two-thirds are in favor of adding more transmission lines to connect clean energy and strengthen grid reliability.”

🔗Source: www.canarymedia.com/articles/tra...

📣“Mars’ first three contracts with Enel are estimated to generate 1.8 terawatt-hours of clean energy annually, helping the food and snack manufacturer avoid around 700 kilotonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent per year”

📌Source: www.esgdive.com/news/mars-en...

🔔“The survey of 1,000 likely 2026 voters commissioned by Conservatives for Clean Energy Florida shows that 78% support clean energy initiatives, including 63% of Republicans.”

📍Source: floridaphoenix.com/2025/09/16/n...

“A novel solar power project ☀️ just went online in California’s Central Valley, with panels that span across canals in the vast agricultural region…Project Nexus is only the second canal-based solar array to operate in the United States"

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From Barriers to Breakthroughs: State Policymaker Perspectives on Renewable Energy Siting Data for Progress and Clean Tomorrow present findings to illuminate the renewable energy siting and permitting barriers facing state legislatures and agency staff.

📣 Check it out! Clean Tomorrow’s Nelson Falkenburg and Alex Breckel partnered with @dataforprogress.org for our newest report: From Barriers to Breakthroughs: State Policymaker Perspectives on Renewable Energy Siting → www.dataforprogress.org/memos/9/15/f...

📚Read about our most recent Siting Solutions Project legislative insight report The State of Siting: 2025 Legislative Round-up featured in @rtoinsider.bsky.social → www.rtoinsider.com/113506-state...

From Barriers to Breakthroughs: State Policymaker Perspectives on Renewable Energy Siting Data for Progress and Clean Tomorrow present findings to illuminate the renewable energy siting and permitting barriers facing state legislatures and agency staff.

NEW with @cleantomorrow.org:

We talked to state-level stakeholders involved in clean energy siting to identify key barriers to building renewables.

Local opposition and misinformation were reported as top barriers.

www.dataforprogress.org/memos/9/15/f...

In LA port, bobbing blue floats are turning wave power into clean energy At the Port of Los Angeles on a site that once housed oil tanks, seven steel structures that look like small blue boats are lowered into the ocean, where they gently bob up and down with the waves to ...

🔔 “This is the nation’s first onshore wave energy site, and on Tuesday, Eco Wave Power will officially unveil the pilot installation and begin operating.”

📌Source: abcnews.go.com/Technology/w...

📣 Check this out! “In 2023, the [Cincinnati] zoo formalized the Community Solar Resiliency Program (CSRP) ☀️, aimed at helping share the benefits of renewable energy with its Avondale and Greater Cincinnati neighbors.”

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🔔 Check out @canarymedia.com’s “Chart of the week” column by @danmccarthy.bsky.social featuring our newest Siting Solutions Project legislative insight report co-authored by Nelson Falkenburg.

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🔔“A coalition of Columbus business, nonprofit and local government leaders is celebrating the beginning of a pilot program bringing solar power ☀️ to 10 low- and moderate-income Near East Side homeowners.”

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Mapping the state-level battles over blocking renewable energy Report: In Trump’s second term, state activity has been characterized by “restrictive momentum."

Check out our new Siting Solutions Project legislative insight report in‪ @latitudemedia.bsky.social @maeveallsup.bsky.social

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🔔Read more about these restrictive bills and other national trends in our “State of Siting” 2025 Legislative Round-Up report → tinyurl.com/3pms3zkc

🔔 Learn more in our latest report 👉 tinyurl.com/3pms3zkc

Donald Trump’s attacks on renewables sector quash nearly $19bn worth of projects Stifled growth will hamper ability to meet energy demand from artificial intelligence, analysts say

📣“At the state level, more than a third of bills discussed this year on renewable technologies sought to make deployment more difficult, according to data shared exclusively with the FT by Clean Tomorrow” Read @fteva.bsky.social FT latest article here 👉 tinyurl.com/5d5e64m5

🔔Read more in our latest report 🔗https://tinyurl.com/3pms3zkc

Meet Claire Cody! Claire joins the Clean Tomorrow’s staff as our newest Senior Innovation Policy Analyst. Learn more about Claire here → cleantomorrow.org/our-team/

California clean energy push exemplified by Stanford professor's zero net energy home Clean, renewable energy is powering California to levels never seen before, and a Stanford professor's home is the blueprint for the near future.

🔔 “[Mark Z.] Jacobson built from scratch what's called a "zero net energy house." It's all-electric with no gas on the property. The home generates as much energy as it consumes, and all the energy generated is clean and renewable...”♻️

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An Ohio solar project overcomes local opposition and misinformation State regulators greenlit the Frasier Solar development, taking into account that opposition was not unanimous. That’s good and bad news for future…

“The Ohio Power Siting Board approved construction of the 120-megawatt Frasier Solar project ☀️ late last month despite local groups’ organizing efforts.”

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6 Northern MN clean energy projects awarded state dollars The state funds aim to help the competitiveness of projects in Little Rock, northern Itasca County, Crookston, Mahnomen County and beyond, which are pursuing federal funds.

🌱“Six Northland projects received grants for clean energy projects in the latest round of the Minnesota State Competitiveness Fund.”

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Big solar farm in Madison County gets go-ahead from state siting board The project in Fenner will stretch across 1,600 acres.

📣“State regulators today gave final approval to a 140-megawatt solar farm ☀️ to be built on a 1,600-acre site in the town of Fenner in Madison County.”

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A heat wave hit New England's grid. Clean energy saved the day. On the hottest day this year, behind-the-meter solar panels and a growing network of batteries helped prevent blackouts and saved consumers millions of…

"“As temperatures across New England soared above 100 degrees Fahrenheit in recent weeks, solar panels and batteries helped keep air conditioners running while reducing fossil-fuel generation and likely saving consumers more than $20 million.” Read more

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From Partisan Whiplash to Lasting Progress: Rebuilding American Energy Policy — Clean Tomorrow In 2022, Congress passed the Inflation Reduction Act—the largest federal investment in American energy technology in history. Through tax credits,

"The choice is stark: We can continue to fight partisan battles around which energy path the [US] should take as our global competitors pull further ahead, or we can rebuild American energy leadership on bipartisan ground." - Evan Chapman tinyurl.com/4bkm7hzh

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Denver students get hands-on with solar power in Summer Renewable Energy Academy This summer, some students traded beach towels for tool belts to dive into the future of energy. The DPS Summer Renewable Energy Academy gave high schoolers a unique opportunity to explore careers in ...

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Students partnered with GRID Alternatives Colorado to learn solar energy systems ☀️ and install mock panels. Funded by Denver's Green Career Grant, the program aims to develop sustainability-focused careers.

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160MW Carriger Solar Project Receives Washington State Energy Council Approval The 160-megawatt Carriger Solar Project (MW) will be a solar photovoltaic (PV) plant, paired with a 63 MW battery energy storage system

Washington’s Energy Facility Site Evaluation Council (EFSEC) approves Site Certification Agreement for Cypress Creek Renewables' Carriger Solar project, a 160-MW PV plant and 63 MW battery energy storage system near Goldendale🔋.

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Much-debated Knox County solar project receives state approval Frasier Solar will put solar panels on about 800 acres of disconnected farmland in Miller and Clinton townships and in Mount Vernon.

Ohio Power Siting Board approves Knox County solar project ☀️, Frasier Solar, involving 250,000 panels on 800 acres of farmland in Miller, Clinton, and Mount Vernon townships.

🌿 Source: tinyurl.com/49m24x2z

Clean energy job training offers hope to hundreds: ‘It’s changed my life’ Illinois residents are benefiting from a long-awaited network of clean energy job training hubs established under the state’s ambitious 2021 Climate and Equitable Jobs Act.

Illinois launches clean energy training programs on Chicago’s West Side to develop residents for careers in solar energy.

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‘We’re the guinea pigs’: Solar farm is first in Michigan to go to state for approval A controversial law passed by Democrats to speed renewable energy development allows sprawling wind and solar farms to bypass local rules that can restrict projects.

What we’re watching 👀: Acceleration Solar, a 90 MW and 800+ acre project, will be the first to advance through Michigan’s state siting process, which was created through PA 233 in 2023.

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AI’s energy appetite exposes a renewables rift in Washington

“Companies like Microsoft, Google, and Amazon have increasingly moved toward an ‘all-of-the-above’ energy strategy,” said Evan Chapman, SR. director of policy at Clean Tomorrow. Read more how the current AI boom effects renewable energy advancements → tinyurl.com/53uybz5n

Long-term energy project could bring relief to California ratepayers, reclaim farmland A major clean energy and infrastructure project planned for California’s Central Valley could reduce electricity costs, create thousands of jobs, and breathe new life into fallowed agricultural land. ...

“The Valley Clean Infrastructure Plan (VCIP), developed by Golden State Clean Energy... in collaboration with the Westlands Water District, is a master-planned transmission and renewable energy project located in Fresno County.”

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