Companies looking to reduce their climate impacts and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions use a variety of tools to do so: buying renewable electricity (especially solar and wind); improving the efficiency of energy-hungry...more
Efforts to introduce investment tax credit (ITC) incentives to support and accelerate the deployment of energy storage in the United States are gaining traction in Congress and the Biden Administration....more
California's Self-Generation Incentive Program (SGIP) provides financial incentives for the installation of customer-side renewable energy generation and battery storage technologies. Since 2001, the SGIP has provided $1.2...more
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) is currently considering whether pairing energy storage with a wind power project could change that facility’s status in FERC Docket No. EL18-195-000. ...more
On August 1, 2018 the California Public Utilities Commission (“CPUC”) issued a proposed decision that would adopt tweaks to the methodology used to calculate the Power Charge Indifference Adjustment (“PCIA”) — the “exit fee”...more
As California marches forward with its aggressive renewable energy targets, expecting to procure half of its electricity from renewables by 2030, a recent federal district court decision calls into question the...more
On February 27, 2017, Pacific Gas and Electric Company (“PG&E”) announced it is withdrawing several portions of its plan to close its 2.3 gigawatt Diablo Canyon Power Plant near San Luis Obispo by 2025. Specifically, PG&E has...more
On September 23, 2014, the U.S Department of Interior and the State of California released a draft Desert Renewable Energy Conservation Plan (“DRECP”), which covers over 22 million acres in Imperial, Inyo, Kern, Los Angeles,...more
Now that solar panels have popped up on roofs across California, one of the next challenges for unlocking their potential and integrating the energy that they produce into the grid is the development of batteries that can...more