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Chicago’s city council passed on April 24 an innovative city ordinance that would expand the electric vehicle charging equipment in residential and commercial buildings by setting requirements for property owners for the number of private parking spaces with EV-charging capacity.

The U.S. DOE announced April 9 that it will be investing $38 million into a new Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy program for the development of hydrokinetic turbine technology.

Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam signed into law this week the Virginia Clean Economy Act, which promotes energy efficiency, sets a schedule for closing old fossil fuel power plants and requires 100% of electricity to come from renewable sources by 2045.

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The City of Princeton, N.J., announced April 7 a new community renewable energy program that will provide an electric supply with 50% renewable energy content to residents at a slightly cheaper price than the local utility.

Distributed energy resource groups in Hawaii sent a letter to the state's Public Utilities Commission on April 3 urging regulators to speed up interconnection processes in an attempt to rebuild the Hawaiian economy following the COVID-19 crisis

The State of New York has created an Office of Renewable Energy Siting (ORES) that will expedite the process of approving new renewables projects larger than 25 MW and moving carbon-free electricity to load centers.

The New Jersey Board of Public Utilities launched March 27 an investigation into the best methods for the state to reach its carbon-free goal by 2050 in response to the FERC's December decision to expand the Minimum Offer Price Rule (MOPR).

The U.S. Department of Energy announced April 1 that it will be investing $20 million in offshore wind energy resource characterization and technology demonstrations

The hottest four-letter word of 2020 is MOPR (Minimum Offer Price Rule), which has become a top concern of clean energy advocates, advanced energy developers, and large power users. This column from Caitlin Marquis of Advanced Energy Economy explores the implications of this FERC rule, which poses a threat to both state clean energy policies and voluntary purchases of renewable energy in PJM - and offers an update following PJM's March compliance filing to FERC.