Watts happen: Toni's weekly energy highlights (May 23, 2025)

Watt passed The aim is to provide current news, sharp analyzes and thoughtful comments from the top of the energy sector, as this dynamic area of ​​the world continues to expand and grow before our eyes.

Weekly highlights:

Kill the golden goose? A plan to finish clean energy tax creditors

The Republicans of the house want to eliminate two federal tax credits that, as part of their cost -saving measures, incentive to accept energy -saving measures, including geothermal heat pumps and solar panels. Critics in the Democratic Party point out that these credits, which were first passed in 2005 and expanded by the 2022 -law of Inflation Reduction, saved Americans of dollars of supply invoices and support almost half a million jobs. To read the latest TNI analysis, you can find here.

“Unleashes the power of the sun”: tariffs on solar collectors are a split problem

While many tariffs from President Trump caused political controversy and equipped the stock market, a proposed tariff has won some supporters for a specific product. In particular, the International Commercial Commission recently decided that US producers were “significantly injured” by imports from Southeast Asia. Since the decision has opened the way for the trading partner to force tariffs of up to 3,500 percent, some have cheered on the judgment against cheap Chinese subsidies in the industry. Others do not agree and explain that the tariffs undermine the risk of the industry that they should help by making imported parts more expensive.

More black gold: Opec+ discusses another increase in production

Opec+ is probably considering another production in July, which caused fears on the oil market that the offer will continue to exceed demand. If the OPEC+ members agree on their session on June 1st, the increase to two consecutive production increases will occur, since Saudi Arabia increase its market share, punish overproduziers in the Opec+ cartel and turn back to slate producers in slate producers in the USA.

A Chinese mineral monopoly threatens to derail the green revolution

The International Energy Agency (IEA), based in Paris, has just given a report in which it was argued that many of the minerals that are of crucial importance to shift to clean energy are increasingly dominated by only a few countries, including China. The report underlined the fact that China has become the world's leading refiner for nineteen out of twenty strategic minerals, and the three best manufacturers of these minerals as a whole have increased their market share to six -six percent. Since 2020, such an agreement in an age of trade restrictions and exporting restrictions to create the attempts to enable the potential of global markets. To read the latest TNI analysis for nickel production in Indonesia, you can find here.

The TVA leads the way to nuclear energy

While Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) is known for its role in the New Deal of the 1930s, it now takes the leadership in relation to nuclear power by being the first supply company in the United States, which is permitted to build a small modular nuclear reactor (SMR) along the CLINCH River in OAK River. The move is part of the governor Bill Lee's plan to make the state a center for nuclear energy because of its security, cost effectiveness and reliability.

About the author: Toni Mikec

Toni Mikec is the Managing Editor of Energy World, a publication of the Center for National Interest. Previously, he worked as a political advisor for her voters in Sacramento and as a senior editor at Eagle Financial publications in Washington DC. He has a BA in international relationships (Summa Cum Laude) from the University of California, Davis and an MA in International Relations and International Economics from the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies.

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