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Guest Juice: Sunnova Seeks to Create a California Micro-Utility
Sunnova Energy, one of North America’s largest residential rooftop solar companies, asked the California Public Utilities Commission last month for...
Energy Commission to Provide Nearly $400M to Advance Energy Storage Diversity
The California Energy Commission and Department of Energy highlighted the CEC’s ongoing support of battery technologies, including alternative chemistries, as...
Legislative Update
Bills near the finish line would require corporations with more than $1 billion in revenue to reveal the carbon intensity...
Sempra Energy’s Net Income Rises
Sempra Energy’s latest quarterly earnings rose to $559 million, or $1.77 per share, compared to second-quarter net income of $424...
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...
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 Reducing Climate Impacts Pass, East Bay to get 40 MW of geothermal energy
Two Senate bills passed May 24 that would allow the creation of local financing districts to fund projects to reduce...
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...
Bill to Bolster Clean Microgrids, Another to Protect Demand Response
The Senate Energy, Utilities and Communications Committee has passed legislation advancing clean, local microgrids in areas that are facing worsening...
CPUC Seeks Another 3,000 MW by Next Summer
The California Public Utilities Commission proposes to further bolster the grid the next two summers by adding between 2,000 and...
Distributed Batteries Reach 700+ MW, But Much More Needed
Battery systems installed at California homes and businesses now total 721 megawatts, with roughly 70% percent of them, about 42,000...
Offshore Wind Bill on Governor’s Desk, Other Clean Energy Bills Fizzle
This year’s legislature failed to pass a number of renewable and emission reduction bills, but it did pass one major...
CPUC Updates Distributed Resources Plan to Capitalize on Broad Benefits
California’s groundbreaking 2016 Distributed Energy Resources Action Plan will be updated to better align rising levels of clean local renewables...
PG&E undergrounding plan, Local solar+storage, CAISO transmission
Pacific Gas & Electric is going to underground a whopping 10,000 miles of power lines in risky fire territory. It...
Bills to Boost Electrification and Staff Up Wildfire Safety Advance
Building decarbonization efforts took another small step forward Wednesday when a bill that creates guidelines for builders and homeowners passed...
Call for conservation, FERC okays Klamath dam removals & reconsiders GHG impacts
The California grid operator extends the call for conservation from Thursday to Friday evening. Initially, high heat across the West...
Proposal Would Make Clean Microgrids More Affordable
The costs of small and large non-fossil microgrids would drop under a proposed California Public Utilities Commission decision...