Nearly a dozen energy bills, from promoting renewable energy innovation to increasing grid cybersecurity, were presented to a U.S. Senate...

The U.S. Senate Energy & Natural Resources Committee Sept. 25 forwarded to the U.S. Senate legislation focused on energy storage,...

Trump's claim that California’s Clean Air Act waiver is preempted by federal law drives state air regulators to look at...

The U.S Environmental Protection Agency and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration yanked California’s ability to set vehicle emission standards...

Two of the three federal energy regulators Sept. 19 voted out a proposed rulemaking to change the federal law protecting...

How to drive down industrial greenhouse gas emissions to reach a 100 percent clean energy economy by 2050 was the...

A 40 year-old law that requires utilities to buy power from renewable generators and co-generators should be waived in states...

Updated May 31. Utility regulators voted to shorten the timelines for correcting utility line and pole safety violations under California...

Federal energy regulators May 17 ordered Pacific Gas & Electric to reach a settlement with eight organizations that complained last...

The grid operator’s board adopted big time reforms to increase gas power plant generator revenues and curb speculation in the...

Mariposa County will become the site of a small biomass-fed power plant that will add 2.4 MW of local generation...

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission appointee Richard Glick was sworn in Nov. 29. Glick, a Democrat, was senior policy advisor for...

The grid operator won a national award for demonstrating that solar plants equipped with smart inverters can provide a variety...

The 40-year old federal law mandating that private utilities buy power from independent producers, which was once center stage, is...

How to ensure both greenhouse gases and toxic air pollutants are reduced in struggling polluted communities was the focus of...

Valero Refinery is suing Pacific Gas & Electric for $75 million in damages for a May 5 power outage at...

SoCal Gas can get into the small-scale combined heat and power business under a decision approved by the California Public...

The California Public Utilities Commission June 11 unanimously approved tightening the greenhouse gas cap beginning in 2020 for combined heat...

A state Assembly panel backed contentious legislation April 13 to incentivize distributed generation by eliminating a portion of the fees...

Analysis and Insights by Fereidoon P. Sioshansi, Ph.D., President, Menlo Energy Economics Solar vs. Non-solar Customers The answer is outside the...