Grid standoff looms and this week’s cheat sheet

And watch the Assembly speaker leave a gaggle of reporters like Homer Simpson.

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• State regulators have so far rejected a push from clean energy developers to get more money for wind and solar farms they say are impacted by Trump tariffs.

• A quick roundup of items you might have missed this week.

• Watch the Assembly speaker leave a gaggle of reporters. He does it this way almost every time.

• Watch Dan explain how he reports during New York’s secretive budget hearings.

Names in today’s CapCon: Deanna Cohen, Kathy Hochul, James Skoufis, Tony Simone

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⚡Stand off between state, clean power developers threatens grid

From Ezra Bitterman

Nearly two dozen of New York’s clean energy projects may be scrapped because they are financially impractical, which will exacerbate the state’s struggling efforts to meet increasing power demands while also ensuring the electric grid becomes less dependent on fossil fuels.