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Big Business and Civil Rights Group Protest Newsom’s Climate Proposals
The California Chamber of Commerce and an organization representing civil rights leaders object to Gov. Gavin Newsom’s legislative and regulatory...
Energy Officials to Justify Diablo Nuclear Power Plant Extension, Opposition Mounts
This Friday, officials from Gov. Gavin Newsom’s office, the California Energy Commission and the grid operator will delve into the...
Utilities Must Reveal Rate Hikes’ Impacts on the Disadvantaged
The California Public Utilities Commission unanimously approved Aug. 4 a decision shining light on rising utility bill pressures on struggling...
Bloom Energy Expands its Fuel Cell Factory to Enable 1GW+ of Production
Bloom Energy opened a mega fuel cell factory in the Bay Area last week in response to significant demand. The...
Regulators Seek to Draw a Clearer Line on Rate Affordability
Updated July 20 The California Public Utilities Commission is grappling with how to better forecast utility bill impacts on struggling...
Assembly Panel Advances “Community” Solar and Solar Permitting Bills
Increasing the ability of Californians with limited finances to access community solar, and in particular, doing so without increasing other...
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...
Marin Clean Energy Expands EV Charging Pilot Shaving Peak Demand
California’s grid operator, regulators and researchers have been warning that if the state fails to shift electric vehicle charging away...
Legislation to Cut Carbon & Ratepayer Bills Pass
The Senate Energy, Utilities, & Communications Committee approved half a dozen bills that aim to reduce ratepayers’ financial burdens and...
Guest Juice: Will Raising Electricity’s Fixed Charges Incentivize Electrification?
California has aggressive goals for electrifying transportation and buildings to help mitigate the impacts of the climate crisis. But the...
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...
Net Energy Metering Proceeding Extended to Allow More Input
Updated May 11 After months of delay, a regulatory proposal released May 9 reopens the record on the controversial proceeding...
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...
News Roundup: New Renewable Peak, East Bay Home Electrification Launched
California hit a new renewable energy peak of nearly 98%. This new record of nonfossil resources flowing into the grid...
Solutions on the Legislative Table to Shift Rate Hikes Away from Utility Customers
The urgency of finding strategies to tamp down continually rising utility bills was the focus of an Assembly energy committee...
GUEST JUICE: Smart Solar Reform is within California’s Grasp
by V. John White and Ed Smeloff New appointments by the Governor to the California Public Utilities Commission create an...
JUICE: Reduce Utility Profit on Infrastructure to Address Skyrocketing Bills
California regulators have ignored a strategy that’s long been within reach to control ratepayer monthly bills: reducing the double-digit return...
State Utility Regulators Pitch Electricity Affordability Criteria, Ponder Blue Sky Proposals
Regulatory affordability criteria to help control the state’s skyrocketing electricity rates were the starting point of a Feb. 28 California...
Energy Department Backs Community Solar
U.S. Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm announced Tuesday that her agency has launched three initiatives to help drive significant new installations...
New CPUC Chief Faces Barrage of Anger Over Solar Rooftop Pay Changes
Alice Reynolds’ first meeting as the new president of the California Public Utilities Commission was dominated by three hours of...