Daviess County Kentucky Fiscal Court will consider a new moratorium on Thursday that would temporarily halt the acceptance and processing of applications related to battery energy storage systems and wind energy conversion systems while local officials study how the technologies should be regulated.

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https://www.owensborotimes.com/news/2026/06/daviess-fiscal-court-to-consider-moratorium-on-battery-storage-wind-energy-projects/

Environmental enforcement against large polluters has plunged under the second Trump administration. Just days after inauguration, the administration reassigned top career environmental lawyers at the DOJ, including those overseeing the Southern Coal case, to work on the president’s immigration crackdown.

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https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-jim-justice-doj-southern-coal-investigation-west-virginia

How much will I have to pay to buy a house without an AI box burning electricity, water, and cash on the side of it?

Can we switch that for energy efficiency, geothermal or ASHP HVAC, and solar power, which would also reduce my electric bill to zero but not make the richest and most awful 10 people in the world even richer and more awful?

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Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) has requested to meet with local power companies to discuss potentially rising rates amid large increase in electricity demand due to an influx of data centers and high-energy industries.

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https://www.local3news.com/local-news/tva-wants-to-meet-with-local-power-companies-to-discuss-rate-changes/article_9bb16675-14a5-4a06-8d28-8de34726c80d.html

Curious pitch...

"NextEra Energy Inc.’s $67 billion deal for rival Dominion Energy Inc., the largest utility acquisition in US history, suggests even the industry’s biggest companies need to grow in order to accommodate the power demand driven by artificial intelligence."

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https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-05-18/nextera-dominion-deal-signals-new-era-of-ai-utility-mega-mergers?accessToken=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJzb3VyY2UiOiJTdWJzY3JpYmVyR2lmdGVkQXJ0aWNsZSIsImlhdCI6MTc3OTE0NzUyNiwiZXhwIjoxNzc5NzUyMzI2LCJhcnRpY2xlSWQiOiJURjdBT01UOU5KTFMwMCIsImJjb25uZWN0SWQiOiIyMTIwMjYyN0QyQTg0OTEwOEVEODZDMkE0OUZGRDcyQiJ9.ZhXZpJZH4zNONCqzpzdoQKBdcqKInVeaYJguRt9NcOw

CATL calls recently signed 60 GWh deal proof that it has “overcome the challenges of the entire sodium-ion battery mass production chain.” Industry observers are already calling it a potential “DeepSeek moment” for the global energy storage industry.

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https://electrek.co/2026/04/27/catl-sodium-ion-battery-60gwh-energy-storage-deal/