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With scaled-back plans, green banks navigate Trump’s funding freeze

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By Jeff St. John Verified
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“But now we have to focus on tight discipline with private capital as our key partner,” he said. ​“You can’t do the higher-risk projects, so you work on what’s addressable.” The goal, he said, is to find projects that are still considered too risky or unproven for private-sector lenders, ​“but if you do it with green banks a few times, then private capital can take over.” That’s in fact the founding principle of the green bank movement, he noted.
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California amps up pressure on grid upgrades that take too long

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By Jeff St. John Verified
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This is California Wire, a weekly newsletter from Jeff St. John on the state’s clean energy transition. Subscribe to get it every Wednesday via Substack. Welcome back to California Wire! This week, I want to dive into a topic that’s both timely and timeless: transmission lines, and how long it takes to build them. California’s lagging grid buildout is holding back gigawatts of clean energy from connecting to the state’s grid.
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Getting California’s sluggish grid buildout on track

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The state needs utilities to finish grid projects faster so it can hit its clean energy goals. This new law could help. (Binh Nguyen/Canary Media; Geng Yuhe/VCG via Getty Images; Harold Mendoza on Unsplash) Welcome back to California Wire! This week, I want to dive into a topic that’s both timely and timeless: transmission lines, and how long it takes to build them. California’s lagging grid buildout is holding back gigawatts of clean energy from connecting to the state’s grid.
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