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Pacific Gas & Electric expects to begin looking for a buyer of 5.6 GW of utility-owned generating capacity—mostly hydropower dams—in...

Pacific Gas & Electric was cleared by state utility regulators last week to offer the nation’s first V2G “export rate”...

Rising natural gas prices are driving up the price of electricity in California, according to the California Independent System Operator....

The mega heat wave gripping California and the West has revealed cracks in California’s clean energy policy edifice that increasingly...

Pacific Gas & Electric Sept. 2 filed for federal funds to help keep its 2,200 MW Diablo Canyon nuclear plant...

California’s grid operator called a stage 3 emergency throughout the state at 5:17 p.m. on Tuesday as the West continued...

State air quality officials approved new zero-emission vehicle standards that will require 100% of the new cars and light trucks...

The California Independent System Operator’s Governing Board Aug. 31 unanimously approved extending reliability must-run contracts for five small power generation...

Gov. Gavin Newsom racked up a series of legislative energy policy wins as the Legislature concluded its 2022 session Aug....

With a statewide push to employ diesel generators as a power supply buffer to address peak loads and blackouts, environmentalists...

Monetary subsidies for extending natural gas lines to newly constructed homes and buildings will end in less than a year...

California will need carbon capture and sequestration, plus 10 gigawatts of new natural gas-fired power plants to become carbon neutral...

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission is proposing changes to speed the process for obtaining grid interconnection agreements for renewable generation...

Pacific Gas & Electric’s announcement this week that it will create the nation’s most comprehensive study and demonstration of hydrogen...

California utility regulators are poised to approve the first of several proposed vehicle-to-grid projects. The first is expected to be...

California will need to remove 100 million tons, or more, of carbon from the atmosphere to meet its climate change...

The Commerce Department April 1 moved to open an investigation of the merits of a trade complaint filed by a...

California air pollution control regulators plan to require automakers to sell nothing but electric, fuel cell, and plug-in hybrid vehicles...

California’s investor-owned energy utilities will launch a pilot project with community-based organizations to develop a model management program to help...

Virtual power plants are beginning to help meet peak power demand in California and across the globe at an affordable...