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Hello to you on this fine Wednesday morning and thanks for checking out the pv magazine morning brief. Today we’re taking a look at the violence caused by climate change, Kaco’s new monitoring portal and Recycle PV Solar, COSEIA and AriSEIA getting in on a pv module recycling promotion partnership and much much more.

Only days after federal regulators claimed “concurrent jurisdiction”, the California utility is taking steps to ensure that it has the ability to get out of its power contracts.

While acknowledging that the law is “unsettled,” FERC has said that it and the bankruptcy courts have concurrent jurisdiction over power contracts, as other generators holding PG&E contracts join the fray.

The power giant says that coal, gas and nukes will not be able to compete with clean energy, and that renewable energy deployment is “just getting started”.

PG&E has filed a response to NextEra’s request to protect its power purchase agreements, by arguing that no harm has yet occurred, FERC doesn’t have jurisdiction, and that ongoing case law referenced by NextEra is not applicable.

Happy Wednesday and welcome to the pv magazine USA morning brief. Today we’ll be looking at SunShare completing 100 MW of community solar, low-income customer representatives being blocked from speaking in LG&E’s rate case, PNM saying a 50% RPS is doable and everything else on the day’s solar slate.

The developer has filed at FERC to proactively stop any changes to its contracts, but the bankruptcy court will have the final say. The move comes as PG&E reports receiving $5.5 billion to keep it afloat during its bankruptcy.

In today’s edition of the pv magazine USA morning brief, we also take a look at Standard Solar’s addition of Dan Dobbs as EVP of Structured Finance, Tri-State Generation and juwi AG’s planned 100 MW solar plant in Colorado, AB 1070 taking effect in California and much more.

pv magazine USA offers a look into the possibilities regarding one of the biggest questions around PG&E’s bankruptcy announcement.

The popular financial assistance program for renewable energy on farms will remain, thanks to a passing vote by Congress. From 2019 to 2023, the program will operate at $50 million annually.