Two of the most important stakeholders in Pacific Gas & Electric's bankruptcy proceeding—the committee representing victims of the Northern California wildfires and a group of the company's bondholders—have jointly filed a Sept. 19 motion with the court outlining a proposal to restructur…
The City of San Jose is the latest municipality in California to pass building-electrification reach codes designed to transition from natural gas to all-electric buildings. Read More
East Bay Community Energy on Sept. 18 greenlighted two solar and storage power-purchase agreements for projects in Kern County that are scheduled to come on line in December 2022. Read More
There is little doubt that natural gas is rapidly becoming non grata in California through the efforts of powerful elected officials and environmental groups, but the breakup seems to be increasingly painful. Read More
Pipeline constraints and reduced storage at Aliso Canyon, coupled with current inventory levels that are less than 2018's, prompted California Public Utilities Commission Executive Director Alice Stebbins to ask Southern California Gas Co. to "take immediate action" to prevent reliability pr… Read More
The California Public Utilities Commission on Sept. 12 proposed a delay in once-through-cooling compliance deadlines for natural gas-fired power plants to address what could be a capacity deficit of up to 2.5 GW in 2021-2023, and said there is a need for additional energy procurement by load… Read More
County and city governments are urging the California Public Utilities Commission to consider how shutting down electric transmission lines during times of high wildfire risk would affect communities on the ground. Read More
Utilities are ramping up efforts to trim vegetation and inspect their power lines in preparation for the height of the 2019 fire season, but California regulators are facing a separate challenge—the lack of qualified evaluators to ensure electric corporations are complying with their wildfir… Read More
The California Public Utilities Commission's Office of the Safety Advocate is dropping out of settlement discussions between Pacific Gas & Electric and another CPUC safety department—the Safety and Enforcement Division. The settlement talks are happening in a critical investigation that … Read More
A sense of urgency filled the room at the California Independent System Operator's headquarters in Folsom on Sept. 18, as officials warned of extremely tight generation capacity beginning next year. Read More
The California Air Resources Board on Sept. 19 approved a controversial new standard intended to protect tropical forests across the world from deforestation, with more than 100 people lining up at a meeting in Sacramento to express both loud support and blunt disapproval of the new rule in … Read More
The California Energy Commission is planning to award $12 million in funding to low-carbon fuel production projects in an effort to decrease greenhouse gas emissions from the state's biggest contributor: its transportation sector. Read More
Two of the most important stakeholders in Pacific Gas & Electric's bankruptcy proceeding—the committee representing victims of the Northern California wildfires and a group of the company's bondholders—have jointly filed a Sept. 19 motion with the court outlining a proposal to restructur… Read More
San Francisco Superior Court Judge Teri Jackson on Sept. 16 ruled to keep the Tubbs Fire jury trial in San Francisco, rather than move it to Sonoma County, in order to ensure a "democratic" and "just" outcome for the victims of one of the deadliest wildfires in California's history. Read More
The San Diego City Council voted Sept. 17 in favor of one ordinance implementing community choice aggregation and another authorizing the mayor to execute a joint-powers agreement for the city to join the San Diego Regional Community Choice Energy Authority. Read More
Butte Choice Energy is poised to become the newest community choice aggregator in California following votes by the Chico City Council and Butte County Board of Supervisors. Read More
A federal Bureau of Land Management geothermal lease sale in Nevada on Sept. 17 attracted more than three times as many bidders as a similar auction held last year. The auction was the largest, by acreage, of any geothermal lease sale BLM has ever held, according to a news release. Read More
The U.S. Department of Energy on Sept. 13 awarded $55.4 million in federal funding for cost-shared research and development to nine projects that will receive grants for front-end engineering design, or FEED, studies of carbon-capture systems across the country. Read More
The 100-MW Nucla Station coal-fired power plant in Colorado closed Sept. 19, just two months after Tri-State Generation and Transmission Association announced its retirement by early 2020 to meet the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's implementation plan for regional haze visibility. Read More
A divided Federal Energy Regulatory Commission on Sept. 19 proposed sweeping revisions to rules for implementing the Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act, drawing cheers from utility groups, an attack from the Solar Energy Industries Association, and a caution flag from an industrial-custo… Read More
