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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...
Wind Blows in the Sails of Offshore Wind
The U.S. Bureau of Ocean Energy Management finalized its environmental review of a potential 1.6 GW of floating wind turbines...
Sempra Energy and SoCalGas Earnings Drop, SDG&E’s Rise
The parent corporation of San Diego Gas & Electric and Southern California Gas May 5 reported lower quarterly earnings of...
Edison’s First Generation Battery Storing Wind Energy Put to Rest
Once the largest battery grid storage project, Southern California Edison’s 8 megawatt, 32 MW-hour pilot located at its large Tehachapi...
PG&E’s H2 Plan Lacks Details Months After CPUC Dismissed Previous R&D Plan
Pacific Gas & Electric’s announcement this week that it will create the nation’s most comprehensive study and demonstration of hydrogen...
Edison International Earnings Fall
Edison International’s first quarter earnings fell to $84 million, or $0.22 per share, compared to net income of $259 million,...
PG&E Corp Earnings More than Triple
Pacific Gas & Electric’s parent corporation reported considerably higher earnings for the first quarter of this year of $475 million,...
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...
Lawmakers Move to Advance Zero-Net Carbon Power, Better Public Information
Legislation driving clean energy, lowering utility bills, and better informing citizens of projects and carbon emissions cleared the Senate energy...
Utility Pilots Tapping into Electric Vehicle Power Near Approval
California utility regulators are poised to approve the first of several proposed vehicle-to-grid projects. The first is expected to be...
Agreement Reached to Advance Dual Energy Flows from Vehicles and Chargers
Federal, state, and local officials, utility and labor representatives and carmakers have agreed to work together to commercialize bidirectional electric...
Federal Regulators Propose Giving States More Say in Regional Transmission
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission approved 4-1 a proposed rulemaking that would give California and other states a larger role...
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...
CARB Says Direct Air Capture Needed to Meet Its Carbon Reduction Goals
California will need to remove 100 million tons, or more, of carbon from the atmosphere to meet its climate change...
Bills Back Ratepayer Bonds for Tree Cutting Costs; New Clean Energy Workforce Office
The Assembly Utilities & Energy Committee on April 20 passed legislation to expand private utilities’ access to ratepayer-backed bonds and...
PG&E Adds 183 MW of Storage, en route to 3,300 MW by Mid-decade
Pacific Gas & Electric brought 182.5 megawatts of four-hour battery storage online, it announced April 18. That brings its total...
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...
Air Regulator Proposes Dramatic Step Up in EV Requirements
California air pollution control regulators plan to require automakers to sell nothing but electric, fuel cell, and plug-in hybrid vehicles...
EV Sales Rise, Zero Emission Trucks and Buses Slated for Bulk of State Funds
Sales of electric cars and other light-duty vehicles hit 16% of the market share by the end of the first...
Higher Natural Gas Prices Push up Grid Market Costs
A 50% increase in natural gas costs drove up the grid operator’s day-ahead market prices in the fourth quarter of...