The state Senate energy committee has approved legislation to accelerate the undergrounding of overhead power lines to reduce fire and...
California hit a new renewable energy peak of nearly 98%. This new record of nonfossil resources flowing into the grid...
A 50% increase in natural gas costs drove up the grid operator’s day-ahead market prices in the fourth quarter of...
The Assembly energy committee backed legislation to require that installers of large solar rooftop panels be paid prevailing wages. Lawmakers...
Significant amounts of energy storage with continuous output of eight hours and far longer will be needed to reach a...
California may face up to a 90% growth in electricity demand to meet its economy-wide zero emissions by 2045 goal,...
The Senate Energy Utilities & Commerce Committee approved legislation seeking to speed up the decarbonization of the grid, including by...
The California grid operator approved spending $2.9 billion for 23 transmission projects in its 2022-23 plan, which largely aims to...
Updated Feb. 15 The California Public Utilities Commission ratcheted down the greenhouse gas emissions cap for the electric sector to...
California regulators and utilities are finally beginning to seize the emerging virtual power plant (VPP) opportunity that allows aggregations of...
For the first time, the California grid operator has released a draft 20-year plan for a grid that supports total...
Pacific Gas & Electric will install 1.6 gigawatts of large energy storage projects between August 2023 and June 2024 to...
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission has directed the California grid operator and five others to prove they are lowering market...
California uses lots of electricity to push massive amounts of water from the Bay-Delta rivers to farms, homes and factories...
The Department of Water Resources’ Hyatt hydropower plant at Oroville Dam in Butte County is back generating electricity, thanks to...
Record growth through the end of last September brought the combined installed wind, solar, and battery storage capacity in the...
Federal energy regulators rejected Pacific Gas & Electric’s request to swiftly recoup $6 million it spent downscaling three transmission projects...
The newly reinitiated stakeholder process to build a Western Day-Ahead Market took two steps forward that shows the California Independent...
Well before California signed international agreements to slash climate-harmful emissions from the energy and building sectors at last month’s COP-26...
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission recovered 14 times as much in penalties for energy market wrongdoings in 2021 than the...