Updated May 11 After months of delay, a regulatory proposal released May 9 reopens the record on the controversial proceeding...

By Guest AuthorsAhmad Faruqui, Richard McCann, Fereidoon Sioshansi Authors Ahmad Faruqui, Richard McCann and Fereidoon Sioshansi respond to Professor Severin...

The Assembly Utilities & Energy Committee on April 20 passed legislation to expand private utilities’ access to ratepayer-backed bonds and...

The state Senate energy committee has approved legislation to accelerate the undergrounding of overhead power lines to reduce fire and...

A 50% increase in natural gas costs drove up the grid operator’s day-ahead market prices in the fourth quarter of...

California’s investor-owned energy utilities will launch a pilot project with community-based organizations to develop a model management program to help...

The urgency of finding strategies to tamp down continually rising utility bills was the focus of an Assembly energy committee...

California may face up to a 90% growth in electricity demand to meet its economy-wide zero emissions by 2045 goal,...

Regulatory affordability criteria to help control the state’s skyrocketing electricity rates were the starting point of a Feb. 28 California...

For the first time, the California grid operator has released a draft 20-year plan for a grid that supports total...

The California Energy Commission took the key first step toward a customer-led power sector that would help balance the grid...

A firestorm of controversy followed the just-released proposed decision from the California Public Utilities Commission that would make big revisions...

The newly reinitiated stakeholder process to build a Western Day-Ahead Market took two steps forward that shows the California Independent...

California community aggregators have deployed large amounts of wind, geothermal, solar, storage and microgrid technology, advancing California’s and community energy's...

The California Public Utilities Commission voted unanimously to require the three investor-owned utilities to invest in an additional 2,000-3-000 MW...

Well before California signed international agreements to slash climate-harmful emissions from the energy and building sectors at last month’s COP-26...

It’s been nearly two decades since California first ordered utilities to enter into long-term contracts for renewable contracts and simultaneously...

The California Energy Commission has okayed a $750 million budget to support clean energy research and development—from projects that are...

Customers increased reliance on home utility services has caused a rise in scammers preying on them and in increasingly nefarious...

Pacific Gas & Electric and Southern California Edison face lawsuits from groups of cities alleging they diverted hundreds of millions...