The California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) has approved new maintenance and operation standards for battery storage resources, including requiring facility owners to develop emergency response and emergency action...more
California officials have joined a legal effort to restore water to the Kern River after an abrupt shutoff of water dried up the river and killed thousands of fish in Bakersfield....more
10/25/2024
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The Biden administration is proposing to speed up the process of approving geothermal energy projects by exempting them from early-stage environmental reviews....more
Solar is booming in the United States as power demand surges, outpacing the growth of any other electricity source and disproving claims that the energy transition is a failure. To be sure, solar remains a small portion of...more
7/2/2024
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California’s utilities regulator on May 30 adopted new rules for community solar projects, despite warnings from clean energy advocates that the move will undercut efforts to expand solar power options for lower-income...more
6/10/2024
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The California Independent System Operator (CAISO) last Thursday asked federal regulators for permission to cancel its annual interconnection study process for any interconnection requests submitted this year so it can deal...more
2/19/2024
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New York released a new offshore wind solicitation last Thursday, seeking proposals for offshore wind and land-based renewable projects. The solicitations will support New York’s Climate Leadership and Community Protection...more
12/11/2023
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Interior Secretary Deb Haaland and Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm traveled to Wyoming last week to celebrate work on the 732-mile TransWest Express Transmission project. The line will add 3,000 MW of transmission...more
NEXT Energy Technologies Inc. has received $3 million in funding under the California Energy Commission’s Realizing Accelerated Manufacturing and Production for Clean Energy Technologies program, to be applied toward NEXT’s...more
Electricity generated from renewables surpassed coal in the United States for the first time in 2022, the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) announced Monday. Renewables also surpassed nuclear generation for the...more
4/3/2023
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The federal review of a key transmission line to connect commercial-scale solar projects in Nevada to millions of households has been delayed by months over concerns about a likely route across a national monument designed to...more
Last Thursday, the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) approved a plan that will set the state on a course to adding 86,000 MW of new resources to the grid by 2035. That amounts to “more than a doubling of the...more
The California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) has approved three energy project contracts proposed by San Diego Gas & Electric (SDG&E), as well as four contracts proposed by Southern California Edison (SCE), that will...more
1/20/2023
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The Inflation Reduction Act’s incentives for energy storage projects in the U.S. came into effect on January 1, 2023. Standout among those measures is the availability of an investment tax credit (ITC) for investment in...more
1/6/2023
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California utility regulators on Thursday approved major changes to the state’s booming rooftop solar market that they say will more evenly spread the cost of energy and help reduce the state’s reliance on fossil fuels in the...more
12/22/2022
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Real-time pricing, new rates, and enabling technologies target demand flexibility to ease California outages Bullet Utility Dive – September 13 Growing California power system reliability threats made vivid by early September...more
FERC plans to accelerate grid connection to new power generation T&D World – June 17 The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) this week issued a proposed role on solving “significant current backlogs” in grid...more
6/24/2022
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President Biden to invoke Defense Production Act for electric vehicle battery materials Bullet CNBC – March 31 President Joe Biden will invoke the Defense Production Act to encourage domestic production of minerals required...more
Record year in 2020 for wind turbine installation in the U.S. -
North American Windpower – January 3 -
In both 2019 and 2020, project developers in the United States installed more wind power capacity than any other...more
California leading push for renewable power -
Bullet KPBS – October 26 -
The use of renewable energy is surging in California. A new report from Environment California Research shows that there has been a huge jump in...more
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BLM announces plans to roll back desert protections in bid to boost geothermal energy -
Los Angeles Times – January 23 -
The U.S. Bureau of Land Management (BLM) this Thursday announced plans to transform 22,000...more
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Landmark law that spurred growth of U.S. renewable energy market set for overhaul -
Transmission & Distribution World – September 25 -
A 40-year-old law that has been key to the growth of renewable energy in the...more
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California has too much solar power. That might be good for ratepayers -
Los Angeles Times – June 5 -
California set two renewable energy records last week: the most solar power ever flowing on the state’s main...more
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sPower and MCE complete largest operational CCA solar project in California -
PV-Tech - April 29 -
sPower and MCE have commenced commercial operations at the 130-megawatt Antelope Expansion 2 PV project in...more
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California bill proposes a backstop authority to secure state’s power grid needs -
Greentech Media - April 17 -
California lawmakers are grappling with a complicated yet critical issue — how to secure the...more