Elliot Mainzer is ending a seven-year stint as CEO/administrator at Bonneville Power Administration to lead an organization that has become a central figure in decarbonizing the West, it was announced Aug. 6.
The Boulder, Colorado City Council on Aug. 4 discussed the first reading of a motion that would establish a franchise agreement with Xcel Energy, Colorado’s largest investor-owned utility, after reaching an agreement in principle July 28. The franchise agreement would stipulate that Boulder … Read More
Some California energy stakeholders are urging state regulators to keep open a proceeding on Pacific Gas & Electric’s safety culture, saying there are many issues to address with the troubled utility even after it emerged from bankruptcy. Read More
In addition to ongoing storage restrictions across the Southern California Gas Co. system, transmission in the region was constricted by pipeline outages that exerted pressure on prices. Read More
California’s grid operator is facing tougher federal scrutiny of its long-running practice of making out-of-market payments to generation units otherwise set to retire, which has been controversial since they are often natural gas-fired power plants. Read More
Energy regulators in California are searching for ways to install more microgrids across the state, but at the same time are trying to determine what the word “microgrid” really means. Read More
The California Public Utilities Commission on Aug. 6 decided that solar energy providers in the state must use a set of standardized energy savings assumptions when presenting potential electricity bill savings to customers. Read More
Elliot Mainzer is ending a seven-year stint as CEO/administrator at Bonneville Power Administration to lead an organization that has become a central figure in decarbonizing the West, it was announced Aug. 6. Read More
Southern California Gas Co. and others on July 31 filed suit against the California Energy Commission in state superior court in OrangeCounty, alleging that its 2019 Integrated Energy Policy Report does not conform to state law and that the agency’s push for building electrification amounts … Read More
California could need more than 77,000 medium- and heavy-duty vehicle charging stations by 2030 to support the truck fleet in the state, according to an Aug. 6 research presentation by Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Read More
A new report, designed to accurately quantify California’s future, in-state renewable natural gas supply, forecasts that 15.8 MMBtu or 119-million diesel-gallon equivalents of the fuel will likely be produced annually by January 2024. Read More
San Jose Clean Energy and Peninsula Clean Energy in an Aug. 3 news release said they had issued a joint request for offers for the purchase of 1-million MWh per year of new, long-term renewable energy or renewable energy-plus-battery storage resources. Read More
Land-intensive renewable energy projects, despite producing no greenhouse-gas emissions, can still threaten sensitive habitats, interfere with animal migration and impact important water resources, experts told participants during a July 31 webinar hosted by the California Community Choice A… Read More
Sempra CEO Jeff Martin says he is confident the company will retain the franchise it holds with the city of San Diego for San Diego Gas & Electric, noting that SDG&E has served the city since 1881. Read More
PNM Resources, the parent company of Public Service Company of New Mexico and Texas-New Mexico Power, plans $3.3 billion in transmission and distribution infrastructure investments from 2020 to 2023, executives said on a July 31 conference call to discuss second-quarter earnings. The investm… Read More
Executives at Pinnacle West, the parent company of Arizona Public Service, said hotter-than-normal weather led to record-breaking demand and drove up sales and earnings in the second quarter of 2020 despite the continued impacts of COVID-19. Read More
A committee established in 2019 Colorado legislation laid out a series of recommendations it says will help the state fulfill its “moral commitment” to coal-dependent communities and the approximately 2,200 workers in the industry who are set to lose their jobs by 2030. Read More
The question of whether to leave the membership of one of the West’s largest wholesale cooperative power providers—and at what price—remains unanswered for two Colorado electric distribution cooperatives as proceedings at multiple commissions and two courts move slowly along. Read More
The Navajo Nation Council on July 31 approved more than $69 million to support residential solar installations by the Navajo Tribal Utility Authority and Native Renewables and more than $44 million for six power-line projects. Read More
The Arizona Corporation Commission at an Aug. 5 meeting heard another update from executives at Arizona Public Service on the utility’s effort to make good on problems stemming from the use of an online rate comparison tool that directed customers to sign up for plans that were not their mos… Read More
President Donald Trump on Aug. 4 signed into law legislation permanently requiring $900 million to be deposited into the Land and Water Conservation Fund each year to be available for the fund’s land purchase and conservation purposes without further congressional appropriation. Read More
