The pair of statewide power outages in August that hit the Golden State for the first time in nearly 20 years has resurrected the debate over whether California should join
While California prides itself on its array of clean energy programs, large portions of the Golden State have been set ablaze and more than 2 million customers–the vast majority living
A renewed national expansion of community choice aggregation (CCA) is raising ambitions for transforming the U.S. power system.
On the heels of an explosion of customer choice in California over
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
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
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
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
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
Raising Rates for Essential Needs During COVID is Wrong
With lower-income Californians bearing the brunt of the pandemic economically, utilities are still rapidly raising rates for essential heat and light despite the COVID crisis. Constantly raising rates is wrong.
