Environmental Equity
Air Regulators’ Climate Plan Must Cut More Emissions: Newsom Says
Gov. Gavin Newsom directed the California Air Resources Board to tighten its proposed plan to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by...
Bills Seek to Promote Community Solar and a Clean Energy Workforce
Legislation to build both community solar and a clean energy workforce and create a distributed generation fund was passed by...
State Carbon Emissions Reduction Plan Update Faces Big Pushback
California will need carbon capture and sequestration, plus 10 gigawatts of new natural gas-fired power plants to become carbon neutral...
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...
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...
Bills Advancing Community Solar & Carbon Capture by Natural Lands Move Ahead
While the controversy over how much to pay owners of home rooftop solar projects for energy supplied to the grid...
Air Regulators Pitch Heavy Use of Carbon Capture to Slash Emissions by 2045
The California Air Resources Board’s draft update of its plan to cut greenhouse gases in the state would allow a...
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...
$11 Million for Big Charging and Green Energy
This week the California Energy Commission approved $11 million in research grants for projects including a truck-mounted, non-polluting backup generator...
Draft State Budget Includes More than $22B to Address Climate Crisis
The Governor pitches spending $22.5 billion to slash climate pollution from the transportation and energy sectors, and to address wildfire,...
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...
Storage Surges, but Will Rooftop PV Payment Changes Affect its Pairing with Solar?
Well before California signed international agreements to slash climate-harmful emissions from the energy and building sectors at last month’s COP-26...
Air Board Plans Massive Spending to Address Vehicle Pollution
The California Air Resources Board is planning to spend $2.3 billion to advance zero emission cars, trucks, buses, and off-road...
Shorts
The U.S. Senate unanimously confirmed Willie Phillips as the fifth member of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission the evening of...
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...
Big Bucks Heading to EV Chargers and Refueling Stations
The same day the federal $1.2 billion Infrastructure package was signed into law that includes $7.5 billion for EV stations,...
Subsidies Spurred Small Solar Growth, Focus Shifts to Home Energy Storage
Hundreds of articles have addressed the controversy over how much residential solar rooftop owners should receive for the excess power...
Pilots to curb disconnections, diesel backups soar, billion$ for EVs
The California Public Utilities Commission unanimously approves investor-owned utility pilots to reduce the number of poor customers who have their...
Outgoing Vote Solar Chief Highlights Work to Make Rooftop Solar Mainstream
Browning, with microphone, and former San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom. Adam Browning, executive director of Vote Solar for the last...
News Roundup: Trouble at Moss Landing Mega Battery, CAISO Shows Batteries Real Time Role
Vistra’s very large utility-scale battery at the site of the former Pacific Gas & Electric Moss Landing power plant has...