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Washington state has launched a sweeping effort to speed up construction of renewable energy projects, prompted by reporting from Oregon Public Broadcasting and ProPublica that chronicled how the state came to rank dead last in the nation for renewable energy growth.Washingtons Department of Commerce, which works on state energy policy, has offered up state employees to help the federal Bonneville Power Administration process its backlog of renewable energy projects though it remains uncertain whether the agency will accept the offer. Bonneville, which owns 75% of the Northwests power grid, must sign off before wind and solar developers who wish to connect to its grid can break ground.Meanwhile, four state agencies have recommended that Washingtons Legislature provide incentives for utilities to upgrade transmission lines, plan out microgrid energy projects that dont need to connect to Bonnevilles power lines and create a new state agency that would plan and potentially pay for major new transmission corridors. A bill to create such an authority had a hearing on Jan 21.The Commerce Department, Department of Ecology, Energy Facility Site Evaluation Council and Utilities and Transportation Commission are also meeting regularly to diagnose whats holding up more than a dozen high-priority wind, solar and energy storage projects that could make an outsize difference.Joe Nguyn, who recently stepped down as the states commerce director, said theres added urgency to get the work done since OPB and ProPublica last year showed that other states like Iowa and Texas have made far more progress than Washington.Were forcing these tough conversations that have never been done before, Nguyn, a former state senator who helped pass Washingtons law setting a deadline to go carbon-free, said during a recent public forum. He spoke at the panel just before leaving the state Commerce Department in January to take a job as head of the Seattle Chamber of Commerce.We probably have to modify some policies, were going to amend some things, we have to make strategic investments, but I think thats a good thing, Nguyn said at the forum. Im not daunted by the task.Under Bonneville, projects face longer odds of successfully connecting to the electrical grid than anywhere else in the country, OPB and ProPublica found.The federal agency weighs how many new transmission lines and substations will be needed to carry the added load, and it has historically been slow to pay for such upgrades, renewable energy advocates have said. Often the burden falls on the builders of the wind and solar projects.Washington and Oregon lawmakers failed to account for this obstacle when they required electric utilities to phase out fossil fuels. Combined with rapid growth in electricity demand from new data centers powering artificial intelligence, studies now predict rolling blackouts in the Pacific Northwest within the next five years.Inspired by OPB and ProPublicas reporting, the Seattle nonprofit Clean & Prosperous published a report this month identifying energy high-potential projects that could generate enough power for 7 million homes and contribute $195 billion to the states economy if built by 2030. Kevin Tempest, research director for Clean & Prosperous, said the fact that Washington ranked 50th nationally for green power growth was poorly understood until the recent news coverage.I dont think that we were aware of just how stark it was, said Tempest, whose group advocates for entrepreneurial approaches to eliminating fossil fuels and promoting economic growth. So that really opened our eyes and, I think, accelerated a lot of conversations.Separately, in Oregon, Gov. Tina Kotek recently signed two executive orders intended to speed up the construction of energy projects. Kotek, too, said the news reports helped galvanize policymakers.Nguyn told OPB and ProPublica their reporting made him realize the people who talk about clean energy are not actually doing it. But now, he said, Washington states desperately trying.Things That We Can ControlMost of the high-priority projects identified by the state and by Clean & Prosperous are waiting for approval to connect to Bonnevilles substations and transmission lines so that developers move toward construction.The federal agencys review process historically has been sluggish and often puts the onus on a single energy developer to invest tens of millions of dollars in upgrades or else wait until another developer comes along to shoulder some of the cost. In addition, state officials in Oregon and Washington must also sign off on the location planned for new power lines and wind or solar farms a process with its own bottlenecks.There are a myriad of reasons why projects are not happening, Tempest said. Its different for each case.But he said across all projects, Bonneville is a common feature for some of the new facilities not breaking ground.Bonneville spokesperson Kevin Wingert said in an email that the agency has implemented several reforms over the past year to enable faster connections to its grid. For example, the agency began studying clusters of projects collectively, based on their readiness, and expects its first study to be done at the end of the month.Wingert said the agency has identified 7 gigawatts worth of projects roughly the capacity of Grand Coulee hydroelectric dam, Washingtons largest power plant that it says its on pace to have online within five years. It expects to have more than double that amount connected and energized by 2035.In the near term, the state is focusing on grid improvements to the transmission system it can make without Bonneville, according to Casey Sixkiller, director of the Washington Department of Ecology.He said Washington will work to help projects connect to some part of the roughly 25% of the regions grid that is operated by investor-owned and public utilities.I think the point is for us in Washington trying to find, as we wait for BPA, whos years behind, what are the other things that we can control that we should be prioritizing and trying to move forward? Sixkiller said.Kurt Beckett, chair of Washingtons Energy Facility Site Evaluation Council, which issues site permits for energy projects, said localized improvements that can be made outside of Bonnevilles grid are cheaper and will have tangible, immediate results. They also have the benefit of buying time for the bigger, harder upgrades that Bonnevilles in charge of.Bonneville says it plans to spend $5 billion on nearly two dozen transmission line and substation improvements, but many of those projects are years away with no firm deadline.Whats within Washingtons control in the near term is to streamline state permitting of projects that have received or dont need Bonnevilles approval.The need was highlighted by the passage last year of President Donald Trumps so-called One Big Beautiful Bill Act, which will phase out key federal energy tax credits and sets a July 4 deadline for projects to break ground. The credits cover as much as 50% of construction costs for most solar and wind farms.More than 200 wind, solar and battery storage projects theoretically could meet the deadline should development processes improve, Clean & Prosperous concluded in its report. The group said it was a reference to both Bonnevilles role and the states.Sixkiller said Washington leaders are prioritizing a smaller list of 19 proposed projects they think have the best chance of beating the July deadline. In some cases, the developers already have a connection agreement with Bonneville in place. In two, the projects will connect to power lines run by a utility.An Offer of HelpIn addition to actions taken by state agencies, Washington lawmakers are considering a bill that would ease the states reliance on Bonneville to build new power lines. That would come in the form of a state transmission authority a new state agency in charge of planning transmission routes, acquiring land and working with developers to build new lines. It could also eventually pay for projects. Washington lawmakers are calling for a report on what financing tools, such as the ability to issue bonds, the new transmission authority will need.The bill has support from environmental groups, labor unions and energy developers. However, lobbyists for large industrial energy consumers and for Bonnevilles public utility customers opposed the bill, saying they supported the intention to build more transmission but wanted the state to focus on relaxing its permitting requirements to let utilities solve the problem.For the time being, state officials told OPB and ProPublica they are working to shore up Bonnevilles ability to do the work that the regions grid needs.Beckett said he hopes the state can help Bonneville with the agencys self-imposed goal of cutting the average time a project spends in the queue from 15 years down to five or six.Agencies have offered Bonneville some of their staff to help its analysts complete grid connection studies, which Washington officials said makes sense because the state in many cases is already reviewing the same projects that are awaiting the federal agencys permission to connect.Bonneville hasnt said yes yet. Wingert said Bonnevilles interconnection studies have numerous technical and regulatory requirements that make them inappropriate or infeasible for the state to conduct on BPAs behalf.But, he said, the agency was open to working with the state to speed projects up at some point.There may be opportunities to coordinate efficiencies between state policies and BPAs interconnection processes in the future, Wingert said.Nguyn said that technical requirements shouldnt keep Bonneville from accepting the states help in vetting projects or analyzing their impact on the grid, and that state employees could help with the less technical aspects of the report if needed.If you want us to bring you lunch so your analysts can go faster, we will do it, he said. Thats the level of seriousness I have about getting transmission built.The post Our Reporting Showed Washington Ranks Last in Green Energy Growth. Now the State Is Working to Speed It Up. appeared first on ProPublica.

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2026-01-26T04:38:47Z MEXICO CITY (AP) Gunmen opened fire at a soccer field in central Mexico on Sunday, killing at least 11 people and wounding 12, authorities said.Salamanca Mayor Cesar Prieto said in a statement posted to social platforms that the gunmen arrived at the end of a soccer match.Ten people died at the scene and one died later at a hospital. The mayor said a woman and a minor were among the wounded.Prieto said the attack was part of a crime wave in the city and appealed to President Claudia Sheinbaum for help to control the violence.The Guanajuato state prosecutors office said it was investigating and coordinating with federal authorities to reinforce security in the area.Guanajuato had Mexicos highest homicide total last year. A local gang, Santa Rosa de Lima, has been battling the powerful Jalisco New Generation Cartel.Unfortunately, there are criminal groups trying to subjugate authorities, something they are not going to achieve, the mayor said.Overall, Mexicos government says the countrys 2025 murder rate was the lowest since 2016 at 17.5 murders per 100,000 inhabitants, although analysts cautioned that the numbers may not fully reflect the countrys violence.

2026-01-26T10:21:42Z THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) Judges at the International Criminal Court ruled on Monday that former Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte is fit to stand trial, after postponing an earlier hearing over concerns about the octogenarians health.Duterte is facing charges of crimes against humanity for his alleged involvement in dozens of killings as part of his so-called war on drugs when in office, first as the mayor of a southern city and later as president.Lawyers for the 80-year old had argued Duterte was in frail health and his condition was deteriorating in the courts detention unit. Duterte was arrested in March and was set to appear in court in The Hague in September. That hearing was delayed after a pretrial panel of judges granted limited postponement to give the court time to determine whether Mr Duterte is fit to follow and participate in the proceedings. Following an assessment by a panel of medical experts, judges found that Duterte is able effectively to exercise his procedural rights and is therefore fit to take part in the pre-trial proceedings. The panel included experts in geriatric neurology and psychiatry. According to court filings, Duterte underwent cognitive testing, as well as mental and physical examinations.