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Environmentalists Urge Air Agency to Nix New Diesel Generators
With a statewide push to employ diesel generators as a power supply buffer to address peak loads and blackouts, environmentalists...
Emerging Technologies: Virtual Power Plants Advance in California
California regulators and utilities are finally beginning to seize the emerging virtual power plant (VPP) opportunity that allows aggregations of...
The Big Picture on Emerging Clean Technologies: “Transactive Energy”
Transactive Energy is On the Horizon Editor’s Note: This is the first in a series of Current columns on various...
Million$ More in Energy Commission Grants Approved
The California Energy Commission gave the green light to nearly $20 million in clean energy research and development grants midweek....
Energy Agency May Turn Automation of Grid-Connected Devices into Reality
The California Energy Commission took the key first step toward a customer-led power sector that would help balance the grid...
EPIC Funding Update: CEC Approves $750M for Clean Energy R&D
The California Energy Commission has okayed a $750 million budget to support clean energy research and development—from projects that are...
West Coast Sets Up Clean Construction Task Force
Over the weekend at the COP26 climate conference in Glasgow, Scotland, the states of California, Oregon, Washington, the province of...
Future Brightens for the Salton Sea’s Lithium Valley
Prospects are the brightest they’ve been since the beginning of a years-long effort to create a domestic supply of lithium...
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...
State Regulators Study Transmission Needs, New Options Highlighted
California’s goal to acquire massive amounts of new wind, solar, and storage won't be reached if the transmission needed to...
NREL Software Tool Expedites Clogged Solar Queues, Increases Revenue
The rooftop solar industry announced a major step forward in its longstanding effort to bring down project installation costs with...
CPUC Allows PacifiCorp to Delay Coal Retirement Plan, Eases Economics of Clean Microgrids
The California Public Utilities Commission voted without discussion to extend by several months the date by which PacifiCorp must file...
Latest Infusion of Energy Commission Cash for New Clean Tech
The California Energy Commission continued its streak of clean tech funding this week with more than a dozen new grants...
DOE Follows Los Angeles with Launch of Clean Hydrogen Plan
The Department of Energy proposed June 7 to drive down the cost of “clean hydrogen” by 80% over the coming...