“You said that there was waste, fraud, abuse,” Judge Tanya Chutkan said to Department of Justice attorney Marc Sacks. “You seem to be abandoning that position now.”

The 4.5-GW, $10 billion project at the former Homer City coal-fired power plant could start operating by 2027, according to the project’s developers.

Energy storage and other new distributed energy resources could be particularly vulnerable to cyberattack, according to a panel hosted by the Clean Energy States Alliance.

State energy assistance programs have funding to continue short-term operations, but the elimination of federal staff threatens the long-term stability of a popular program, experts say.

The nine microgrid projects will serve about 9,000 customers in disadvantaged or vulnerable Northern California communities, the utility said.

When a scarce resource like grid access is given away administratively rather than allocated based on economic value, the result is always the same: inefficiency, congestion and delays.

Given changing federal policies, the utility company may keep several coal-fired units operating longer than expected, according to its latest resource plan.

The purchaser, private equity-backed Delta Utilities, says it also is “in the final stages” of acquiring Entergy’s two regulated gas distribution companies in Louisiana.

 A third-party review of U.S. battery fires found no public health concerns from environmental contamination, but more can be done to ensure energy storage system safety, the American Clean Power Association said Friday.

Three global train manufacturers with zero-emission trains operating in Europe are vying for U.S. contracts.