Reps. Mary Gay Scanlon (D-Delaware) and Madeleine Dean (D-Montgomery) introduced the Energy Bills Relief Act, which would restore residential solar and HVAC tax credits, expand LIHEAP for roughly 300,000 PA households, speed grid interconnection, and direct states to shield ratepayers from data-center demand.

New Jersey joined New York, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Maine and Vermont in suing the Interior Department over its $928 million deal paying TotalEnergies to abandon East Coast offshore wind, arguing it violates the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act and the Judgment Fund Act.

Google and Voltus unveiled a three-year deal aggregating up to 100 MW of distributed batteries and flexible loads into a Google-funded PJM virtual power plant — the first such hyperscaler pact, aimed at AI data-center load growth, with PJM-RTO real-time prices near $12.80/MWh and load at 85.4 GW Thursday morning.

FERC granted Constellation a PJM-rules waiver to transfer 760 MW of Capacity Interconnection Rights from the retiring Eddystone plant to the Crane Clean Energy Center (former Three Mile Island Unit 1), keeping the $1.6B, Microsoft-backed nuclear restart on track for late 2027.

PJM declared a hot-weather alert for June 5-6 across the Mid-Atlantic — affecting Met-Ed, Penelec, PECO and PPL — forecasting peak demand of 130,617 MW Friday and 127,560 MW Saturday as a heat wave drives air-conditioning load.

Houston erased a five-run deficit with a six-run eighth inning — capped by Cam Smith's two-run triple — to beat the Pirates 11-9 Wednesday at Daikin Park; Isaac Paredes homered for the Astros as Pittsburgh's 12-hit night went to waste.

Pittsburgh locked up 24-year-old edge rusher Nick Herbig on a four-year, $100 million extension ($42M guaranteed) during mandatory minicamp, rewarding a career-high 7.5-sack 2025 and making him the first non-QB to reach $100M without a full season as a starter.