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State Grid Hits New Demand Record as Scorching Heat Continues
California’s grid operator called a stage 3 emergency throughout the state at 5:17 p.m. on Tuesday as the West continued...
CAISO Extends Just a Few RMR Contracts While Cheering Growth of Grid Storage
The California Independent System Operator’s Governing Board Aug. 31 unanimously approved extending reliability must-run contracts for five small power generation...
Grid Operator Calls First Flex Alert of the Summer
Updated Aug. 18 California's grid operator called on customers to lower their energy use for several hours Wednesday afternoon because...
Energy Commission Proposes Removing Big Diesel Backup from State Permitting
The California Energy Commission is considering exempting diesel backup and thermal power projects with generating capacity of less than 100...
25 GW of Offshore Wind in California by 2045 is Doable, CEC Finds
Up to 5 GW of floating wind turbines can be installed several miles off the coasts of Central and Northern...
Energy Officials to Justify Diablo Nuclear Power Plant Extension, Opposition Mounts
This Friday, officials from Gov. Gavin Newsom’s office, the California Energy Commission and the grid operator will delve into the...
U.S. Energy Storage Rising with CA Leading, But Solar Dispute Slows Growth, Report Finds
The U.S. is projected to install 600 GWh of energy storage by 2031, with an average 54 GWh/27 GW added...
CAISO May Operate Transmission Sending Wyoming Wind to California
Wind energy developer Anschutz Corp. asked the California grid operator in late July to manage at least 1,500 MW of...
High Voltage Project to Move New Solar Power Slated for Next Year
The Bureau of Land Management at the end of last week approved the construction of a 500 kV transmission line...
California Policy Makers and Grid Operator Work to Advance Energy Storage
With the growing demand for energy storage to help decarbonize the grid and balance out intermittent renewable resources, the California...
Transmission Planning Must Reflect High Electrification Levels, Agencies Say
The state energy agencies and the grid operator are working to meld their approaches to transmission planning in light of...
Fire in PG&E Territory Damages Equipment
updated July 7 A rapidly spreading wildfire in Amador and Calaveras counties that began early evening on July 4th forced...
Turning Tesla Batteries into Virtual Power Plants
The output of customers’ Tesla Powerwall batteries will be aggregated and used by Pacific Gas & Electric to help lower...
California Public Utilities Commission Okays Local Supply Reserves
State utility regulators unanimously approved revisions to local capacity and supply cushion requirements between 2023-25 to ensure sufficient electricity resources...
FERC Moves to Ease Renewable & Storage Projects’ Grid Connections
Federal regulators launched proposed rules to speed up belabored interconnections of renewable and storage projects to enable a changing resource...
Humboldt Houses 1st Renewable Microgrid that Sells Power to the Grid
California’s first grid-connected large solar-battery microgrid went live last week after years of work by Cal Poly Humboldt’s Schatz Center,...
Climate Protection Bills Move to the Assembly
The California Senate has passed a legislative package aimed at reducing climate emissions. Elements of the package include accelerating new...
Rethinking California Utilities’ Distribution Systems
As California moves to accommodate high flows of bi-directional distributed energy resources (DER), distribution system reform is needed, according to...
Merchant Battery Project in San Diego Follows Approval of SCE’s Big Storage
San Diego County’s energy grid is in for a major overhaul. A non-utility, 165 megawatt battery project located across nine...
Gas & Electricity Costs Rise More, High Heat, Fires and Tight Supplies Likely
Californians are getting hit by continually soaring electric and gas utility bills, including from rising gas prices, escalating transmission costs,...