SACRAMENTO, Calif., March 16, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — California’s three investor-owned utilities, including the largest utility in the country, PG&E, have joined together to pressure a regulatory agency set up to protect consumers from dangerous, expensive, and unreliable energy into making consumer solar two times more expensive than it is today, while slashing the value of solar …
SAN FRANCISCO – A report released today reveals that enabling the continued growth of distributed energy resources (DERs), like rooftop and community solar and battery storage, would save California ratepayers $120 billion over the next 30 years. According to the new analysis by national grid modeling experts Vibrant Clean Energy, commissioned by Local Solar for …
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Consumers Looking for Climate Solutions and Energy Reliability Amidst Fires and Blackouts Turn to Battery Storage Out of step with consumers, energy needs and climate change goals, California regulators consider utility industry proposals that would slow California’s globally significant solar-charged battery market Sacramento, CA—A new study released today by the California Solar and Storage Association …
SACRAMENTO, Calif., Oct. 27, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — The Save California Solar coalition launched a new advertising effort this week, including broadcast television, cable and radio ads, calling on Governor Newsom and the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) to reject an investor-owned utility profit grab and instead keep rooftop solar growing and affordable in California. The ads …
Last month as a heat wave slammed California, state regulators sent an email to a group of energy executives pleading for help. “Please consider this an urgent inquiry on behalf of the state,” the message said. The manager of the state’s grid was struggling to increase the supply of electricity because power plants had unexpectedly …
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California suffered its first rolling blackouts in nearly 20 years because energy planners didn’t take climate change into account and didn’t line up the right power sources to keep the lights on after sundown, according to a damning self-evaluation released Tuesday by three state agencies. The rotating power outages didn’t last long and affected only …
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Sometime next summer, there’s a decent chance a heat wave will bake the American West, and California’s power grid will again be stretched to its limits. As the sun sets, solar panels will start generating less electricity even as temperatures remain high. Power plants that burn natural gas will fire up as quickly as possible, …
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This is the Jan. 7, 2021, edition of Boiling Point, a weekly newsletter about climate change and the environment in California and the American West. Sign up here to get it in your inbox. With less than two weeks until Joe Biden takes office — and with Democrats taking control of the Senate — the …
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When the Texas power grid buckled and cut off power to millions of households during a severe winter freeze last month, Bernadette Del Chiaro saw some troubling similarities to what had played out in California six months before. Del Chiaro, who leads a solar energy advocacy group in Sacramento, felt Texas was going through “the …
The California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) is preparing to reconsider the credit rooftop solar consumers receive for the excess energy they produce, and the battle between utilities and the solar industry is in full swing. California’s three major investor-owner utilities, the Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E), San Diego Gas & Electric Company (SDG&E) and …
Net-metering battle between utilities and solar industry heats up in California Read More »
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