Reliance Industries has Brookfield Asset Management have signed an MoU concerning potential solar, wind and battery storage in Australia, which may cover full supply line manufacturing in the country or just final assembly. Senator Manchin, chairman of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, has proposed judicial reform pertaining to time limits on transmission line expansion proposals, saying that “the courts should expedite such projects.” Barroso, the leading Republican on the Committee, has instead argued that premature decommissioning of fossil fuel assets are the primary future threat to the grid, and has raised the concept of rural states being “forced to subsidize” transmission expansions which they do not support as fervently as the coastal states do. The US has allocated…