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Energy Storage Project at UC San Diego Repurposes EV Batteries
A California startup launched its 250 kW/500 kWh energy storage system that reuses batteries that powered electric cars. Carlsbad-based Smartville...
Supply Chain Pressures Drive Energy Storage Contract Redos
Surging prices for imported battery components, rising demand and other supply constraints are causing private utilities and community energy to...
So Cal Community Aggregator Okays Price Hike for 1,500 MW of Executed Renewable Deals
Citing unprecedented turmoil in renewable power development, the Clean Power Alliance of Southern California approved amendments last week to raise...
Interconnection and Permitting Delays Slow Energy Storage Diversity: US Senate Panel
Since 2020, Congress has appropriated several billion dollars to advance a variety of energy storage technologies that reduce climate pollution...
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...
Pilot Projects Use Zinc Batteries to Provide at least a Full Day of Energy
Long-duration zinc air battery technology is advancing. Metal batteries using zinc are more advantageous than ones using lithium as a...
Merchant Battery Project in San Diego Follows Approval of SCE’s Big Storage
San Diego County’s energy grid is in for a major overhaul. A non-utility, 165 megawatt battery project located across nine...
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...
CPUC Signs Off on PG&E’s 1.6 GW of Battery Deals, Price Unknown
The California Public Utilities Commission unanimously approved Pacific Gas & Electric’s proposal to add 1.6 gigawatts of four-hour battery storage...
Energy Agencies Strive to Advance Cost-Effective, Long-Duration Grid Storage
Significant amounts of energy storage with continuous output of eight hours and far longer will be needed to reach a...
Newsom Insists on Advancing Clean Energy, Feds Restore State Tailpipe Emission Limits
In a State of the State address that took place amid war and a Republican push for more oil drilling,...
Imperial County Vies For Share of Lithium Boom, Biden Listens
Officials from the state’s impoverished and heavily-polluted Imperial County want to make sure residents there reap the benefits of any...
$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,...
CPUC Okays Expensive New SCE Battery Project
Investor-owned utilities in California have lobbied hard to reduce payments to people who feed their excess rooftop solar power back...
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...
Future Brightens for the Salton Sea’s Lithium Valley
Prospects are the brightest they’ve been since the beginning of a years-long effort to create a domestic supply of lithium...
State Regulators Study Transmission Needs, New Options Highlighted
California’s goal to acquire massive amounts of new wind, solar, and storage won't be reached if the transmission needed to...
The Buzz
Months of speculation as to who would be the CA grid operator’s new chief ends with the naming of Bonneville...
Bills on Lithium Extraction, EV Charging, Biomethane Advance
The Senate Energy Utilities & Communications Committee met this week and passed four energy bills. The committee had halted reconvening...