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Tight Energy Supply Brightens Prospects for Pumped Storage
California uses lots of electricity to push massive amounts of water from the Bay-Delta rivers to farms, homes and factories...
Hydropower Plant Back Online After Winter Rains
The Department of Water Resources’ Hyatt hydropower plant at Oroville Dam in Butte County is back generating electricity, thanks to...
CPUC prez steps down, 120 MW of new gas plants, New East Bay wind farm
The biggest news of the week is the announcement that the California Public Utilities Commission chief is leaving, five years...
120 MW of New Fossil Gas Generation Installed
Source: DWR Four new 30 MW natural gas-fired generators have just been added to the California grid at a cost...
Big hydro loss, Gov. waives pollution limits, Sempra earnings
Warnings about diminished hydropower because of the ongoing drought in California become a reality. On Thursday, a state official announces...
California Loses 750 MW of Summer Peaking Power
The ongoing drought has caused a significant drop in Lake Oroville in Butte County, causing a loss of 750 MW of...
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The Department of Water Resources’ March 2 snow survey found that California’s snowpack was below average. Overall, it's 61% of...
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updated Feb. 4 A federal judge handling Pacific Gas & Electric’s probation called the utility “criminally reckless” for failing to...
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The Public Advocates Office announced it saved California ratepayers more than $3 billion in utility rates last year. “The impacts...
Net Present Value for Dummies
The new law created by AB 1054 seeks to tamp down rising utility bills by mandating that when the companies...
Rooftop Solar Compensation Under Review, Again
How much owners of rooftop solar reap for excess energy produced and the conditions attached have been battled in and...
PG&E Shuts off Power in 22 Counties, SDG&E & SCE Customers Lose Power
High temperatures and fires over the Labor Day weekend put the grid to the test. While the California Independent System...
Load Shifts and Less Consumption Avert More Blackouts
Widespread conservation at every level of electricity use, from industry, to households, is credited with lowering otherwise soaring demand on...
CA Grid Operator: “We are scouring every corner of our world.”
More than 3 million California homes could have their power cut off by the three investor-owned utilities starting late afternoon...
Less Demand and Cleaner Options Spell Lower 2019 Costs for CAISO
The California Independent System Operator saw a whopping 17% reduction in overall wholesale electricity market costs in 2019 compared to...
JUICE: Doubts about PG&E Promise to Exit Bankruptcy Sans Rate Hike
Pacific Gas & Electric’s $58 billion borrowing plan to exit bankruptcy is required to be rate neutral. Ratepayers are not...
The Buzz
The surge in residential energy use from millions of people ordered to stay home motivates energy regulators to lighten the...
News Roundup: CPUC Aims to Lower Utility Bills, Snowpack is Half of Average
The California Public Utilities Commission is working to lower home utility bills that have surged since the issuance of shelter...
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The proverbial champagne bottle was broken Jan. 30 on a new compressed renewable natural gas fueling station by SoCal Gas...
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Snow depth and snow water equivalent is 200 percent of average, or 51 inches, at the Department of Water Resources' Sierra...