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California Falls Behind on Climate Protection
California’s leadership on climate protection will falter if it fails to reduce carbon emissions 40% below 1990 levels by the...
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...
Bill Aims to Drive Carbon Emission Reductions in Building Materials
The Senate Energy Utilities & Communication Committee passed legislation to slash the carbon intensity of new construction building materials and...
Silicon Valley CCA to Provide Google 100% Clean Energy All Day, Every Day
Silicon Valley Clean Energy and Google reached a 10-year agreement in which the community choice aggregator will supply two of...
Heat Pumps Drive Decarbonization, Barriers Impede Progress, Study Finds
The number of electric heat pumps to warm water and heat and cool air flowing in homes is expected to...
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,...
CEC Okays Green Hydrogen Development, Touts Morro Bay Offshore Wind Advancements
This week, the California Energy Commission approved modifying the eight-year-old 250 MW concentrated Mojave Solar Project to add an electrolyzer,...
Energy Commission Okays $19M more in Grants
The California Energy Commission approved $19 million in grants this week to help commercialize clean energy projects, ranging from longer...
Pilot Projects Use Zinc Batteries to Provide at least a Full Day of Energy
Long-duration zinc air battery technology is advancing. Metal batteries using zinc are more advantageous than ones using lithium as a...
Biden Waives Tariffs on Imported Solar Panels
In response to a huge backlash by solar developers and clean energy advocates, President Joe Biden June 6 suspended for...
Energy Commission Seeks Sizable Role in Distributed Energy Planning
The California Energy Commission launched its first proceeding to advance increased use of electric vehicles, solar systems, battery storage, and...
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...
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,...
Wind Blows in the Sails of Offshore Wind
The U.S. Bureau of Ocean Energy Management finalized its environmental review of a potential 1.6 GW of floating wind turbines...
JUICE: A Diablo Nuclear Power Plant Extension Faces High Hurdles
Rumblings about extending the life of Pacific Gas & Electric’s aging Diablo Nuclear Power Plant past the date its federal...
Edison International Earnings Fall
Edison International’s first quarter earnings fell to $84 million, or $0.22 per share, compared to net income of $259 million,...
Stakeholders, Utility Unite in Face-Off with Regulators Over Arizona Just Energy Transition
Arizona Public Service (APS) raised the national standard for a Just Energy Transition with its $144.45 million settlement with affected...
Lawmakers Move to Advance Zero-Net Carbon Power, Better Public Information
Legislation driving clean energy, lowering utility bills, and better informing citizens of projects and carbon emissions cleared the Senate energy...
Utility Pilots Tapping into Electric Vehicle Power Near Approval
California utility regulators are poised to approve the first of several proposed vehicle-to-grid projects. The first is expected to be...