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Meta agreed to pay up to $16.7 billion to settle teen-safety claims, with binding Twitter/Instagram/Facebook changes and contingent payments if rivals adopt similar safeguards.
Colorado’s blueprint for integrating community power relies on private investment and competitive markets to build grid capacity faster and cheaper than traditional utility-led upgrades, signaling regulatory shifts to enable such investment.
FERC approved deals: PowerTransitions aims to buy a 1.2 GW New York gas-fired plant for an energy campus, while TransAlta plans to acquire two Colorado plants totaling about 319 MW.
Xcel seeks Colorado Supreme Court intervention after a district court blocked its eminent-domain bid to interconnect two wind farms totaling >1 GW, arguing delays harm ratepayers.
Eden GeoPower is pursuing underground hydrogen generation via pulsed-power rock fracturing, backed by ARPA-E funding and early field/lab results, with economics and regulation as key unknowns for commercialization.
Panamint’s 1.2 GW Big Rooter solar-plus-storage project at a Texas brownfield site, with $1.7B capex and phased online dates through 2029, backed by 50% ITC and potential gas-fired expansion, amid a shifting federal policy landscape but continuing state incentives.
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