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CPUC Advances $4B Settlement to Close Diablo Canyon Nuclear Plant
A $3.9 billion settlement between Pacific Gas & Electric, ratepayer advocates, nuclear watchdogs, and others to decommission the utility’s...
5,000 MW Shortage Possible Next Summer
If drought and extreme heat continue into next year, the shortfall on the California grid from high summer heat could...
CEC Adopts 2022 Triennial Building Efficiency Code
The California Energy Commission unanimously approved a hard fought, cutting edge building energy efficiency code update Aug. 11, a key...
Saving Energy Continues to Be the Best Deal in Town
Saving a kilowatt has long been known to be the best kilowatt. Now an analysis by the Lawrence Berkeley National...
CEC Set to Adopt New Triennial Building Efficiency Code
After months of push me, pull you, the California Energy Commission is posed to adopt the latest update to the...
Two SDG&E Green Hydrogen Pilots Aim to be Online in 2022
San Diego Gas & Electric launched two green hydrogen demonstration projects geared to help start the decarbonization of its system....
Diesel backup, Peninsula Clean Energy EV rebates
The California Energy Commission held an Aug. 10 hearing to get a status update on a proposed data center that...
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...
SDG&E and SoCalGas Parent’s Earnings Fall
Sempra Energy saw a sharp drop in net income for the second quarter, $424 million, or $1.37 a share, compared...
Five More Years of Oversight for PG&E, at Shareholder Expense
The California Public Utilities Commission unanimously voted to require Pacific Gas & Electric shareholders, not ratepayers, to pay $25 million...
Fed vehicle rule, FERC reconsideration of LNG, FERC vacancy
Draft clean car and light truck standards by U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and National Highway Traffic Safety Administration would make...
PG&E Circuit May Have Sparked Another Fire in No. Cal
Californians may have yet another fire to attribute to Pacific Gas & Electric. The utility informed regulators that its equipment...