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2025.10.08 | Utility Chaos: State Mandates vs. Volatile Federal Funding

2025.10.08 | Utility Chaos: State Mandates vs. Volatile Federal Funding

Update: 2025-10-08
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The collision of deep federal budget cuts targeting hundreds of clean energy grants and aggressive state climate goals has created "pure policy chaos" for utility professionals. This episode explores how utilities are forced to adopt a Fractured Risk assessment, choosing between volatile federal money and the growing stability of state-level mandates. Learn why investment is polarizing, favoring utility-scale resources in states that demonstrate Regulatory Certainty (like California's massive 6 GW capacity mandate) over pioneering technologies reliant on potentially unstable federal funding. Understand this fundamental shift in energy capital deployment to evaluate your own resource plan's vulnerability to supply chain pressures and secure projects before the phase-out of key tax credits.

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2025.10.08 | Utility Chaos: State Mandates vs. Volatile Federal Funding

2025.10.08 | Utility Chaos: State Mandates vs. Volatile Federal Funding

Edmundo Rodriguez