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Renewable procurement gaps pose risk for California’s climate goals, but what solution is best?

Gaps in resource procurement by California’s proliferating load serving entities (LSEs) could prevent the state from achieving its nation-leading renewable energy and climate goals. The state’s massive renewable resource portfolio

California utilities support centralized renewables procurement proposal, but urge caution

Dive Brief: California’s investor-owned utilities are “generally supportive” of a proposed statewide procurement process for renewable resources, they said at an all party meeting last week with state regulators

California ALJ proposes statewide renewable energy procurement for utilities

Dive Brief: A California Administrative Law Judge (ALJ) on Monday proposed statewide procurement for renewable resources, finding that proposed resource plans from utilities and other power providers will not

PG&E’s Negligence, Not Its’ Bankruptcy, Is What Threatens Our Climate

Wildfires threaten not only our safety but also our climate. This summer, much of northern California has been blanketed with an ashy haze that shrouds normally visible peaks from Mount

Customer Empowerment Upheaval Forces California Into Hold On Renewables. Utilities And Renewable Energy Developers Wait While Regulators Decide The Future Of Customer Choice.

California is conducting what may be the most ambitious electricity customer empowerment experiment ever done anywhere; whether it will work remains very much in doubt. The state is the national

If Going 100% Renewable Is So Good For California, Why The Backroom Dealing?

Sammy Roth of The Desert Sun broke an interesting story last week about how Portland, Oregon-based PacifiCorp is working behind the scenes to effectively gut and amend a California State

California is aiming for 100% clean energy. How much of it will come from Wyoming?

The conservative billionaire Philip Anschutz wants to build America’s biggest wind project in Wyoming and send the electricity to California. But politics could get in the way. State lawmakers are

Will California’s 100% Renewables Goal Survive The Political Process?

Can the world’s sixth-largest economy get to 60% renewables by 2030 and 100% renewables by 2045? California’s Senate Bill 100 would require just that. Earlier this month senators passed the

Trump Wants To Kill Obama’s Climate Plan. What Does That Mean For Renewable Energy In The West?

President Donald Trump took a major step toward removing the United States from global efforts to fight climate change Tuesday, ordering federal officials to start dismantling Barack Obama’s Clean Power

Climate Change Law Has Reshaped California

Just past noon on a broiling Central Valley day, the strain on California’s electrical grid is rising with the temperature. Inside the control room that runs the grid, on the

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