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1. DOE’s goal to slash clean hydrogen costs

DOE announced a plan to roll out a series of goals to accelerate breakthroughs of more clean energy solutions this week.

Zoom out: This is the first goal

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in DOE’s new “Energy Earthshots” series and aims to reduce the cost of clean hydrogen by 80% from $5 to $1/kg over the next decade.

Rewind: The strategy builds on successful programs launched at DOE during the last administration — the Energy Storage Grand Challenge and the Advanced Reactor Demonstration Program.
What’s clear: There was a shift at DOE during the last Administration towards goal-oriented investments to help scale up clean energy innovation.



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​​​​​​2. Gulf Coast preps two big carbon capture plans

Momentum continued to build behind two key Gulf Coast developments this week:

A new Texas law

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cleared the way for the state to apply for primacy

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over the Environmental Protection Agency’s Class VI well program — wells used for the injection of carbon dioxide into deep rock formations for long-term sequestration.

A joint venture from Talos Energy and Storegga Geotechnologies Limited will evaluate and develop carbon capture and sequestration along the Gulf Coast — one of the first projects being pursued offshore

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What’s clear: The Gulf Coast is a prime location for carbon capture and storage opportunities due to the high number of emitters and vast storage potential offshore.



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3. Washington’s moving infrastructure target

Negotiations hit a snag this week as President Biden ended talks with Senate Republicans over their desire to keep the 2017 tax cuts intact.

The path ahead appears partisan:

Senator Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV), the lead Republican negotiator, expressed disappointment

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while committing to bipartisan solutions.

Dems, meanwhile, said the GOP offer didn’t go far enough on climate change — even though Congress passed the most sweeping climate legislation in over a decade, with the Energy Act of 2020.

But there’s still hope for bipartisanship. The House Problem Solvers Caucus this week introduced a $1.25 trillion, bipartisan infrastructure framework hewing “closer to Biden’s baseline,” Roll Call reports

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10 Senators also announced a bipartisan “compromise framework

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4. The case for permitting reform

When infrastructure talks resume, making it easier to build new projects should remain a key priority.

What’s clear: Permits set the pace of our clean energy transition — either bogging down or unleashing the massive number of new projects analysts say we need, ASAP.

Rich’s take: The scale of construction this moment demands is enormous given our increasingly electrified country — and speed is key.

We’re talking tens of thousands of miles of new pipelines — both for clean fuels and captured CO2 — transmission wires, power plants, wind and solar farms, geothermal wells, nuclear plants, clean fossil fuel plants, and repowered hydro dams.

Next week, join The Aspen Institute

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for a first look at its next report, “Building Cleaner, Faster.”

Plug in: Hear Rich explain why we can only scale up clean energy and cut carbon dioxide emissions as fast as we can permit new projects in under 5 minutes

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5. You’re invited: The path to tapping fusion energy

Join Paul Dabbar, DOE’s former under secretary for science and a member of our advisory board, for a conversation on how to mobilize investments in what could be a world-changing clean energy source.

June 24 @ 4pm — register here

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What’s clear: Innovative designs and scientific breakthroughs are bringing the bottomless well of fusion power closer and closer to reality.

Context: For decades, scientists have been trying to build a fusion generator to harness the reaction at the core of the sun.

Rewind: The Nuclear Regulatory Commission, industry, and DOE have recently begun discussions on an appropriate regulatory pathway for commercial fusion.

The latest: The Fusion Industry Association is calling on fusion to be included as a part of any upcoming infrastructure legislation

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Plug in: Explore our Fusion 101

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for a crash course in how it works, the field’s big developments, and what’s next.



6. ICYMI

We’re pushing the Senate to reintroduce and pass the American Nuclear Infrastructure Act

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, cosigning a letter from 24 industrial, nonprofit, and advocacy orgs.

Carbon capture, utilization, and storage continue to gain bipartisan support

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in Washington and interest from investors.

E4 Carolinas won $1.4 million from a Commerce Dept. nuclear research grant

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to boost the industry and its economic benefits throughout the Southeast.

Rich joined She Thinks, the Independent Women’s Forum podcast, to discuss the conservative case for climate solutions

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and where we see bipartisan agreement.

Pumped hydro, America’s overlooked energy storage workhorse, is poised to get the credit — and added investment from Washington

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— it deserves, writes our own Alex Fitzsimmons.

End of an era... Developer TC Energy officially canceled

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the Keystone XL Pipeline project, months after President Biden revoked a key permit, drawing bipartisan backlash over the loss of jobs.




Coming down the pipeline

June 15 — Aspen Institute: Hear from a roundtable of policymakers, experts and practitioners for the "Building Cleaner, Faster

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" report release.

June 15 — House S&T: Full committee markup of H.R. 3593, the "Department of Energy Science for the Future Act

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June 15–17 — Decarb Connect: This year’s gathering

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explores competitive decarbonization business models for North America.

June 24 — ClearPath: Former DOE official Paul Dabbar charts a path toward "Mobilizing Investment into Fusion Energy

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