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Bills Okaying Cheaper Loans for Storage and EV Chargers, Munis Issuing Customer-Backed Bonds Advance
Energy storage and electric vehicle chargers would become eligible for zero- and low-interest loans under legislation passed out of the...
Bill Promoting Offshore Wind Advances
Legislation to kick-start offshore wind development in California and fund new low-emissions biomass generating facilities passed the Senate Energy, Communications...
The Buzz
A week after a national report found that the City of Los Angeles could be powered fully by renewables by...
Bioenergy and Efficiency Rebate Bills Pass Key Committee
The California Assembly seems increasingly interested in electricity made from different forms of so-called biowaste. Legislation to promote the use...
Bills on Lithium Extraction, EV Charging, Biomethane Advance
The Senate Energy Utilities & Communications Committee met this week and passed four energy bills. The committee had halted reconvening...
Energy Commission Approves $35M in Clean Tech Grants
The California Energy Commission midweek approved millions of dollars in grants to promote cleaner food and beer production, and to...
House Panel Hearing on Wildfires & Power Accompanied by Carbon Neutrality Bill
House Democrats formally introduced legislation to make the United States climate neutral by 2050 the same day a committee heard...
CPUC Prohibits SoCal Gas from Keeping $1B+ in Cap-Trade Money
At its end of the month business meeting, the California Public Utilities Commission forbade Southern California Gas from redirecting $1.21...
Undercurrents: CPUC Okays $812 M for DWR Crisis Bond Charges
The California Public Utilities Commission approved passing through to ratepayers the cost of Department of Water Resources’ bonds arising from...
CA Set to Meet 2020 Renewable Standard
California is on target to meet that state’s 33 percent renewable portfolio standard, according to a California Public Utilities Commission...
Brown Signs SB 901 & Bills Impacting Energy Sector
A new state law allows utilities to borrow money through bonds to cover uninsured wildfire costs subject to California Public...
Shorts
Updated Sept. 6. In-state generation capacity at the end of 2017 stood at 79,825 MW, according to a California Energy...
The Buzz
The feisty Air Resources Board knocks hard on federal regulators' door. The aim is to have a serious discussion with...
PG&E Belatedly Moves on Biomass Deals
At the end of last week, state regulators were urged to prod utilities, particularly Pacific Gas & Electric, to sign...
Climate Roundup: CARB Supports Clean Heavy-Duty Vehicles
California air quality regulators late last week approved a plan to spend $423 million to subsidize replacement of big rig...
Undercurrents
A bill to carve out a utility procurement mandate for biomass, biogas, and geothermal power made it through an Assembly...
Bills Aim to Bolster Biomass, Geothermal, Reduce Munis Power Costs
The Assembly Utilities & Energy Committee voted to move two controversial measures forward April 18 setting procurement mandates for geothermal...
PG&E Balking at BioEnergy Order Riles Regulators
Two state energy regulators took Pacific Gas & Electric to task for stating it would not comply with the California...
Shorts
Updated Feb. 15. The Los Angeles Department of Water & Power is purchasing biomass power from the American Renewable Power-Loyalton...
Utilities & Community Choice Beat Renewables Target
California’s investor-owned utilities exceeded the 25 percent alternative energy mandate set for 2016 and are expected to have half their...