The governor’s proposed budget revision providing $5.2 billion—with the lion’s share going to the Department of Water Resources—to add 5,000 megawatts of state-owned emergency fossil-fired generation to shore up reliability came under attack during a June 1 Assembly Budget Subcommittee hearing. Critics said it would undermine the state’s clean energy efforts and raises many questions.
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