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California Utilities’ Residential Demand Response Expansion Challenges
Plans by California’s three dominant investor-owned utilities to expand their residential demand response (DR) programs are hampered by a lack...
Gov’s Revised Budget Adding $9.5B to Climate Programs Met with Little Enthusiasm
Gov. Gavin Newsom’s proposed May revise of the state budget would hike state spending on clean energy, emissions reductions and...
Bill to Bolster Clean Microgrids, Another to Protect Demand Response
The Senate Energy, Utilities and Communications Committee has passed legislation advancing clean, local microgrids in areas that are facing worsening...
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...
In Largest Approval Yet, Energy Commission OKs $730M for Clean Projects
This week, the five members of the California Energy Commission approved the largest one-time spending to date for clean energy...
More CPUC Action to Address Summer Afternoon Spikes
The California Public Utilities Commission voted unanimously to require the three investor-owned utilities to invest in an additional 2,000-3-000 MW...
CPUC Seeks Another 3,000 MW by Next Summer
The California Public Utilities Commission proposes to further bolster the grid the next two summers by adding between 2,000 and...
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...
Urgent Power Situation Prompts Another Newsom Order, Allows More Pollution
Faced with out of control wildfires and high summer temperatures, Gov. Gavin Newsom ordered further reductions of energy use at...
FERC Scrutinizes New Gas Projects’ Climate Pollution Impacts
At its regular meeting this week, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission approved two more orders that affirm its authority to...
Latest Carbon-Cutting Blueprint Hashed Out at Public Workshop
Electrifying buildings and transportation won’t get the state to carbon neutrality by 2045, staff from energy and air pollution control...
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...
New Energy Commission Report Addresses Emissions from Buildings
Homes and commercial buildings are responsible for one quarter of California’s greenhouse gas emissions. More than half of the carbon...
Grid Operator Raises Its Extreme Summer Peak Estimate by 6%
The California Independent System Operator is “cautiously optimistic” that the grid will be more stable this summer than last because...
CEC Okays Big Green Energy Grants, More Diesel Backup Looms
The California Energy Commission approved $73 million in grants for clean energy projects, ranging from advanced communications within batteries for...
CPUC Summer Demand Side Decision Cuts Back on Fossil Power
The California Public Utilities Commission March 25 unanimously approved a revised emergency resource plan for the private utilities for the...
Bills to Promote Green Hydrogen and Large Customer Demand Response Advance
A handful of measures passed out of the key Senate Energy, Utilities & Communications Committee March 15. One expands the...
Roundup: East Bay to Offset Peak Load w/ Negawatts Reaped Elsewhere
East Bay Community Energy signed a deal with home energy management company OhmConnect to apply 25 MW in aggregated energy...
The Buzz
State regulatory staff propose further crimping demand response, much to the dismay of advocates of these behind-the-meter resources. Making matters...
CPUC is Heading Backwards on Demand Response Forward on Gas Plants
Instead of increasing demand response to help avoid blackouts during intense heat, a California Public Utilities Commission staff proposal would...