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Regulators Require Edison to Pay $100M for Shoddy Efficient Light Bulb Program
Southern California Edison was ordered to pay $102 million for mismanaging its energy efficiency lighting program from 2017 through 2019. ...
Utility Regulators Pitch Cutting Big Fixed Fees on Small Solar Units
California utility regulators’ proposal to increase the costs of small solar rooftops and lower payments for excess power sent to...
Read moreGuest 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...
Read moreCPUC Says Aliso Canyon is Needed, Replacement Specifics PostponedÂ
A California Public Utilities Commission proposal finds that natural gas supplies in Southern California Gas’s Aliso Canyon storage field are...
Read moreCAISO May Operate Transmission Sending Wyoming Wind to California
Wind energy developer Anschutz Corp. asked the California grid operator in late July to manage at least 1,500 MW of...
Read moreTransmission Planning Must Reflect High Electrification Levels, Agencies Say
The state energy agencies and the grid operator are working to meld their approaches to transmission planning in light of...
Read moreFERC Moves to Ease Renewable & Storage Projects’ Grid Connections
Federal regulators launched proposed rules to speed up belabored interconnections of renewable and storage projects to enable a changing resource...
Read moreBudget Revise Supporting 5 GW of Fossil Power & Waiving Environmental Laws Faces Pushback
The governor’s proposed budget revision providing $5.2 billion—with the lion’s share going to the Department of Water Resources—to add 5,000...
Read moreClimate Protection Bills Move to the Assembly
The California Senate has passed a legislative package aimed at reducing climate emissions. Elements of the package include accelerating new...
Read moreRethinking California Utilities’ Distribution Systems
As California moves to accommodate high flows of bi-directional distributed energy resources (DER), distribution system reform is needed, according to...
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