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News Roundup: New Renewable Peak, East Bay Home Electrification Launched
California hit a new renewable energy peak of nearly 98%. This new record of nonfossil resources flowing into the grid...
Next Year’s $3B Green Resilient Grid Plan Okayed
The California grid operator approved spending $2.9 billion for 23 transmission projects in its 2022-23 plan, which largely aims to...
CAISO Regional Market Design Details Emerge, Big Questions Remain
The newly reinitiated stakeholder process to build a Western Day-Ahead Market took two steps forward that shows the California Independent...
Delays in Public Ability to Review Renewable Contract & Bids Shortened
It’s been nearly two decades since California first ordered utilities to enter into long-term contracts for renewable contracts and simultaneously...
California Grid Operator Aims for 2024 Regional Day-Ahead Market
The California-led real-time Energy Imbalance Market has delivered significant savings to Western power providers, but other regions’ market ambitions are...
CPUC prez steps down, 120 MW of new gas plants, New East Bay wind farm
The biggest news of the week is the announcement that the California Public Utilities Commission chief is leaving, five years...
Grid Operator Reform with Big Implications for a Western Energy Market
The California Independent System Operator leaders enabled a critical governance change that gives new powers to the Energy Imbalance Market...
Groundbreaking building code, Summer 2022 grid, Diablo decommissioning deal
Two days after dire climate warnings by the International Panel on Climate Change, the California Energy Commission adopts a long-awaited...
5,000 MW Shortage Possible Next Summer
If drought and extreme heat continue into next year, the shortfall on the California grid from high summer heat could...
Saving Energy Continues to Be the Best Deal in Town
Saving a kilowatt has long been known to be the best kilowatt. Now an analysis by the Lawrence Berkeley National...
Big hydro loss, Gov. waives pollution limits, Sempra earnings
Warnings about diminished hydropower because of the ongoing drought in California become a reality. On Thursday, a state official announces...
California Loses 750 MW of Summer Peaking Power
The ongoing drought has caused a significant drop in Lake Oroville in Butte County, causing a loss of 750 MW of...
CPUC Updates Distributed Resources Plan to Capitalize on Broad Benefits
California’s groundbreaking 2016 Distributed Energy Resources Action Plan will be updated to better align rising levels of clean local renewables...
Urgent Power Situation Prompts Another Newsom Order, Allows More Pollution
Faced with out of control wildfires and high summer temperatures, Gov. Gavin Newsom ordered further reductions of energy use at...
Flex alert, Legacy resources, Fed-State Transmission panels
The grid operator's call to Californians to reduce their energy consumption on Wednesday, July 28, between 4-9 PM averted possible...
PG&E undergrounding plan, Local solar+storage, CAISO transmission
Pacific Gas & Electric is going to underground a whopping 10,000 miles of power lines in risky fire territory. It...
CAISO Launches Initiative to Better Serve Western Grid, Raises Priority Conflicts
Under recently approved market changes, the California Independent System Operator seeks to double down to protect reliability in the states...
EV charging, Klamath dam removal, Red light for green hydrogen
A divided California Public Utilities Commission green lights a $240 million utility electric vehicle charging program to help get the state...
News Roundup: Solar & Efficiency are Key for Electrification, SCE Launches EV Buildout
Home electrification will raise electric bills and create a serious financial burden unless rooftop solar and energy efficiency are part...
Oregon Fire Stresses California’s Grid but Blackouts Averted
Updated July 15 Source: Climatechangedispatch.com The worsening Bootleg wildfire in southern Oregon shut off 5,500 MW of power imports from...