Federal, state, and local officials, utility and labor representatives and carmakers have agreed to work together to commercialize bidirectional electric...

State utility regulators approved $40 million in additional incentives for home and small business electric heat pump water heater installations....

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

Virtual power plants are beginning to help meet peak power demand in California and across the globe at an affordable...

California added over 250,000 electric vehicles last year, reaching more than one million, according to the California Energy Commission. Current...

The California grid operator approved spending $2.9 billion for 23 transmission projects in its 2022-23 plan, which largely aims to...

A Duke Energy pilot would use three cutting-edge electric vehicle technologies, a flat subscription rate, in-vehicle communications, and some utility...

California regulators and utilities are finally beginning to seize the emerging virtual power plant (VPP) opportunity that allows aggregations of...

Updated Feb. 10 San Diego Gas & Electric has lined up three contracts to build 161 megawatts of utility-owned energy...

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

Transactive Energy is On the Horizon Editor’s Note: This is the first in a series of Current columns on various...

Given the four-hour limitations of lithium-ion battery storage to date, the California Energy Commission is welcoming applications from a Canadian...

Pacific Gas & Electric will install 1.6 gigawatts of large energy storage projects between August 2023 and June 2024 to...

Three community energy providers have joined together to meet urgent clean energy requirements and are seeking bids for nearly 670...

The Department of Water Resources’ Hyatt hydropower plant at Oroville Dam in Butte County is back generating electricity, thanks to...

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 looks as though the long-awaited environmental impact analysis for a historic removal of four large dams on the Klamath...

The California Public Utilities Commission proposes to further bolster the grid the next two summers by adding between 2,000 and...

It’s final. In the tension between electricity reliability and harmful pollution, reliability won out in a vote on Oct. 19...