OIL & GAS: A company cancels its controversial proposed gasoline storage facility expansion near a Denver-area school following public protests. (Colorado Sun)

ALSO: California regulators delay a planned decision on the fate of the Aliso Canyon natural gas storage facility near Los Angeles that suffered a methane blowout in 2015. (news release)

ELECTRIC VEHICLES:

  • California’s electric vehicle industry pushes back against new state regulations giving utilities nearly nine years to connect new EV chargers to the grid, saying it would hamper adoption efforts. (E&E News, subscription)
  • Some Southern California Edison customers with Ford electric vehicles can start earning rewards for charging during off-peak hours, launching a program that ultimately aims to use bidirectional charging as a grid resource. (Utility Dive)

POLLUTION: The U.S. EPA approves California’s proposed rules aimed at limiting air pollution from the warehouse and logistics industry. (Press-Telegram)

UTILITIES: 

GRID: Unusually strong winds and rainfall batter utility lines in Montana, leaving more than 9,000 customers without power. (KBZK)

MICROGRIDS: A California county plans to install six solar-plus-battery storage-powered microgrids at public facilities. (Microgrid Knowledge)

SOLAR: A Las Vegas casino resort signs on to purchase power from a utility-scale solar installation under development in southern Nevada. (Las Vegas Review-Journal)

GEOTHERMAL: Well tests determine Fervo Energy’s enhanced geothermal generating station in southwestern Utah is the most productive of its kind in history. (Utility Dive)

CLEAN ENERGY: 

ELECTRIFICATION: Colorado officials look to regulations, rebates and marketing to prod restaurants to convert from natural gas to electric stoves.  (CPR)

BATTERIES: A federal lawmaker from Nevada introduces legislation that would establish regulations for transporting lithium batteries after a truck crash closed an interstate highway for 43 hours. (Las Vegas Review-Journal)

MINING: 

CARBON CAPTURE: The U.S. Energy Department awards a Navajo Nation-owned company $6.6 million to study the feasibility of adding carbon capture equipment to the Four Corners coal plant in northwestern New Mexico. (news release)

COMMENTARY: A California university professor says the bipartisan permitting bill in Congress is a “Faustian bargain” that expedites fossil fuel development but does little to help clean energy. (Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists)

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Jonathan hails from southwestern Colorado and has been writing about the land, cultures, and communities of the Western United States for more than two decades. He compiles the Western Energy News digest. He is the author of three books, a contributing editor at High Country News, and the editor of the Land Desk, an e-newsletter that provides coverage and context on issues critical to the West.