In 2019, I happened to be visiting Phoenix on a 115-degree day. I had a meeting one afternoon about 10 blocks from the hotel where I was staying downtown. I gamely thought I’d brave the heat and walk to it. How bad could the heat really be? I grew up in California, not the Arctic. …
Opinion | Life Under the Heat Dome, a Glimpse of the Future Read More »
To avoid the worst impacts of climate change, we have to make two big transitions at once: First, we have to generate all of our electricity from clean sources, like wind turbines and solar panels, rather than power plants that run on coal and methane gas. Second, we have to retool nearly everything else that …
Opinion | Guess Who’s Been Paying to Block Green Energy? You Have. Read More »
The California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) today began accepting applications for its Federal Funding Account, a $2 billion grant program focused on building last-mile broadband internet infrastructure for communities without access to internet service at sufficient and reliable speeds. Applications are being accepted through the CPUC’s Broadband Grant Portal immediately. The deadline to apply is …
The California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC), in a continued investment in energy efficiency as a foundational element of its energy, environmental, and social justice policies, today approved utility energy efficiency portfolios of $4.3 billion for the years 2024-2027, and a forecasted budget of an additional $4.6 billion for 2028-2031. Notably, approximately 14 percent of the …
The California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC), in an ongoing commitment to help the state bridge the digital divide, today approved grants to help advance broadband development and literacy in the state. The CPUC awarded up to $5.1 million in Local Agency Technical Assistance (LATA) grant funding for nine projects in the cities of Coachella, Fremont, …
CPUC Provides Grant Funding To Advance Broadband in State Read More »
Strafed by powerful storms and superheated by a dome of hot air, Texas has been enduring a dangerous early heat wave this week that has broken temperature records and strained the state’s independent power grid. But the lights and air conditioning have stayed on across the state, in large part because of an unlikely new …
Facing Brutal Heat, the Texas Electric Grid Has a New Ally: Solar Power Read More »
The Australia Letter is a weekly newsletter from our Australia bureau. This week’s issue is written by Natasha Frost, a reporter in Melbourne. What does the transition to a zero-emissions future look like for Australia? This is the topic of “Powering Up: Unleashing the Clean Energy Supply Chain,” a new book by Alan Finkel, the …
Australia’s Opportunities and Challenges on the Path to ‘Net Zero’ Read More »
We live in a different world now, just a few years later. It is no longer clean energy that requires political interventions for survival. And increasingly it is fossil fuels flailing about for political lifelines to impede market forces. Partly because of the climate-forward interventions of the infrastructure bill and the Inflation Reduction Act, and …
Opinion | Even in Texas, You Can’t Stop the Green Revolution Read More »
The U.S. electric grid is often described as a vast, synchronized machine — a network of wires carrying electricity from power plants across the country into our homes. But, in reality, there is no single U.S. grid. There are three — one in the West, one in the East and one in Texas — that …
Why the U.S. Electric Grid Isn’t Ready for the Energy Transition Read More »
In April, Vice President Kamala Harris visited Qcells, a solar panel manufacturing facility in Dalton, Ga., to announce an early triumph of the Inflation Reduction Act: Summit Ridge Energy, one of the nation’s largest developers of utility-scale solar projects, would purchase 2.5 million U.S.-made solar panels. Subsidies under the new law brought the price in …
Energy Tax Credits, Meant to Help U.S. Suppliers, May Be Hard to Get Read More »
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