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, …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 »
The California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC), in an ongoing commitment to help the state bridge the digital divide, today made three decisions that advance broadband affordability and access in underserved communities. The CPUC approved two pilot programs for the California LifeLine Program that leverage the federal Affordable Connectivity Program (ACP) to enhance affordable broadband services …
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The California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) today acted to ensure that telephone numbers continue to be available to meet the demand in the geographic region served by the 530 area code by approving a second area code (called an overlay) that will provide additional numbering resources while minimizing customer inconvenience. The new area code to …
The California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) will hold an online public forum for customers of Independent Small Local Exchange Carriers (LECs) to offer input about the cost of capital requests for each company. The Small LECs in California are Calaveras Telephone Company, Cal-Ore Telephone Co., Ducor Telephone Company, Foresthill Telephone Co., Kerman Telephone Co., Pinnacles …
As president, Mr. Biden has not yet challenged that logic. Instead, he visited an Iowa ethanol plant last year to boast about the lavish biofuels subsidies in his Inflation Reduction Act, and to announce a new waiver allowing more ethanol to be sold in the summertime to help suppress gas prices. But his most important …
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