A 50% increase in natural gas costs drove up the grid operator’s day-ahead market prices in the fourth quarter of...
Significant amounts of energy storage with continuous output of eight hours and far longer will be needed to reach a...
Virtual power plants are beginning to help meet peak power demand in California and across the globe at an affordable...
The U.S. Department of Energy released a plan on Friday that aims to increase the recycling of photovoltaic panels heading...
Calls to keep the half-century-old Diablo Canyon Nuclear Power Plant from closing mid-decade are getting louder. During a Feb. 15...
Updated Feb. 15 The California Public Utilities Commission ratcheted down the greenhouse gas emissions cap for the electric sector to...
California regulators and utilities are finally beginning to seize the emerging virtual power plant (VPP) opportunity that allows aggregations of...
A stunning ruling by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in an Arizona case indicates utilities may face limits on...
The California Energy Commission is taking a broad look at changes needed to reduce natural gas use. At a Jan....
Alice Reynolds’ first meeting as the new president of the California Public Utilities Commission was dominated by three hours of...
The Department of Water Resources’ Hyatt hydropower plant at Oroville Dam in Butte County is back generating electricity, thanks to...
Record growth through the end of last September brought the combined installed wind, solar, and battery storage capacity in the...
Investor-owned utilities in California have lobbied hard to reduce payments to people who feed their excess rooftop solar power back...
The newly reinitiated stakeholder process to build a Western Day-Ahead Market took two steps forward that shows the California Independent...
Public and private financial support is critical to attaining a viable green hydrogen industry, which is considered a key strategy...
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission recovered 14 times as much in penalties for energy market wrongdoings in 2021 than the...
Customers increased reliance on home utility services has caused a rise in scammers preying on them and in increasingly nefarious...
Over the weekend at the COP26 climate conference in Glasgow, Scotland, the states of California, Oregon, Washington, the province of...
Like California’s other two investor-owned utilities and parent companies, Sempra Energy’s latest earnings also were in the red, not from...
California’s community choice organizations signed agreements for 3,000 MW of clean energy supplies over the last year. “These projects reflect...