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UTILITIES: Arizona regulators reject Salt River Project’s bid to expand a natural gas power plant in a historically Black community in the southeastern part of the state. (12News)
ALSO: NV Energy seeks proposals for renewable power projects of 20 MW or more. (news release)
SOLAR:
• The federal Bureau of Land Management advances a 700 MW solar-plus-storage project proposed for 5,127 acres west of Las Vegas. (news release)
• A California accountant is sentenced to six years in prison and fined $624 million for his role in a billion-dollar Ponzi scheme that involved selling mobile solar generators. (Associated Press)
• A Nevada gold mine plans to construct a 200 MW solar facility to power its operations. (news release)
• A Colorado county joins an effort to start a regional community solar cooperative. (Steamboat Pilot)
GRID: A Colorado power line project exemplifies how transmission buildouts aimed at facilitating wind and solar development are often held up by reluctant landowners and wildlife habitat concerns. (Bloomberg)
WIND: A floating offshore wind installation proposed along the Washington coast would be the West’s largest project of its kind. (E&E News)
STORAGE: A California startup works to scale up its thermal energy…
