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Incentives
The Rural Utilities Service is taking letters of interest from September 8 to October 9 for its Powering Affordable Reliable Technology loans: $410 million for rural renewable generation, storage, microgrids and grid work, open to for-profit companies as well as cooperatives and utilities.
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Grid & Resilience
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers awarded a $45 million contract on August 20 for a Fort Buchanan microgrid that must sustain critical operations for 14 days without the Puerto Rico grid. The budget is military. The method of sizing it is not.
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Solar Technology
Minimum import prices of 38 cents per watt on modules and 22 cents on cells take effect on December 4, 2026. Spot prices sit near 46 cents, analysts see US-assembled modules near 30 cents in 2027, and the federal credit calendar decides how long a business can wait.
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Battery Storage
The 2026 edition of NFPA 855 removes the 600 kWh trigger, so a hazard mitigation analysis is required for any stationary battery in scope, along with a documented emergency response plan, an annual review and annual training. The paperwork moves to the front of the project.
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Incentives
The federal credit for a business solar project did not disappear with the One Big Beautiful Bill Act. It acquired a calendar. Projects that begin construction after July 4, 2026 must be in service by December 31, 2027, and a 1.5 MW threshold decides how easily a commercial system proves it has started.
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Caribbean
The Department of Energy closed a $489.4 million loan on August 5 for 220 MW of battery storage in Arecibo and Santa Isabel, and put a number on what reliability is worth: about 13 million customer interruption hours avoided a year. A resort or a port on any island can do the same arithmetic on its own meter.
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Utilities & Rates
Regulators approved a 3.2 gigawatt data center contract on August 27 with a written promise of at least $15 a month off a typical residential bill from 2029. The promise is real, it is narrow, and the parts of a commercial bill it does not touch are the ones a business can control itself.
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Utilities & Rates
A settlement in the Duke Energy Progress rate case would raise rates in two steps from January 1, 2027, if the North Carolina Utilities Commission approves it. The size is known, the date is known, and a business in eastern North Carolina or the Asheville area has four months to decide how much of it to pay.
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Agriculture
The Georgia Department of Agriculture expects to pay out $531.236 million in USDA block grant funds for uncompensated Hurricane Helene losses by the end of fall, prorated across more than 4,200 eligible applications. The money answers what was lost. What to rebuild differently is a separate question, with a deadline of its own.
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Carolinas
Duke Energy Progress has asked the South Carolina Supreme Court to overturn regulators' July 15 denial of a 4% increase for its Pee Dee customers under the state's new rate stabilization law. The court will decide the timing. The part of a commercial bill a facility controls does not wait for a ruling.
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Grid & Resilience
Duke Energy's 2026 Carolinas Resource Plan, filed with South Carolina regulators in August, asks to add about 18.5 GW of solar and 13 GW of battery storage by 2041. A utility planning that much storage has decided what flexibility is worth, and a Carolina facility can own the same thing at its own meter.
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Incentives
USDA rescinded the 2025-2027 REAP notice of funding opportunity on April 15, 2026 and will accept new applications only after a revised regulation is published. Applications without a signed agreement must be refiled. The pause is time to get the technical report, the interconnection and the tax numbers in order.
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