The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission on Sept. 15 granted a limited waiver request submitted by the California Independent System Operator to install two 30-MW modular natural gas-fired generators in Yuba City to help the state meet demand on hot days this summer and fall.
A subsidiary of Germany-based Munich Re is acquiring a 50-percent interest in two of EDF Renewables North America's California solar projects, the companies said in a Sept. 14 news release. The interests are in the under-construction Maverick 6, a 131-MW DC solar system coupled with a 50-MW/… Read More
A few weeks before the fire started, I stood under a dead evergreen tree that leaned toward the power line in my backyard. The tree looked as if it was tired; as if it was ready to find its final resting place below at any moment. Still majestic, the evergreen stood quietly among dead and li… Read More
Western power prices tumbled from high levels as heat exited the region. Read More
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission on Sept. 15 granted a limited waiver request submitted by the California Independent System Operator to install two 30-MW modular natural gas-fired generators in Yuba City to help the state meet demand on hot days this summer and fall. Read More
Pacific Gas & Electric's shareholders, its ratepayers, and victims of wildfires caused by its equipment have become "entangled" in an "Orwellian" world due to a $7.5-billion bond-financing deal that will cover portions of the utility's 2017 and 2018 wildfire costs, utility ratepayer advo… Read More
California is learning a great deal about the challenges of electric-vehicle adoption among its disadvantaged populations as a study related to the state's Clean Transportation Program Investment Plan for 2021 to 2023 is two months away from being reviewed by the California Energy Commission. Read More
San Diego Gas & Electric is projecting a 14-percent decrease in electricity sales to residential customers from 2019 to 2022, but residential customer rates could stay about the same due to decreased operational costs. Read More
California's "tree-shaking" machines could have their diesel engines converted to hybrid compressed natural gas and electric engines, but orchard workers would need better access to natural gas refueling infrastructure, engineers told the California Energy Commission in a research report thi… Read More
The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors voted to ban new oil wells and evaluate the status of existing ones with an eye toward phasing them out, drawing praise from environmentalists. Read More
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Gov. Gavin Newsom's solid victory in a statewide recall election this week will keep California on track with its climate-change mitigation and decarbonization goals. Read More
U.S. District Judge William Alsup on Sept. 14 ordered Pacific Gas & Electric representatives to answer whether the utility could have de-energized the power line that is under investigation for causing the Dixie Fire sooner and thereby stopped the fire from starting. Read More
An active monsoon season drove record amounts of runoff throughout the Salt River Project’s watershed in Arizona, but California and most of the West remain in drought conditions despite some recent rain. Read More
Federal regulators this week licensed what could become the nation's first-ever stand-alone commercial facility to receive and temporarily store spent nuclear fuel from active and decommissioned nuclear power plants across the nation. But lawmakers in Texas, where developers plan to build th… Read More
Chevron, historically known as an oil and gas behemoth, is taking several steps designed to underscore its commitment to renewables and other burgeoning energy technologies. Read More
Wildfires directly or indirectly took Bonneville Power Administration transmission lines out of service 30 times this summer, BPA Vice President of Transmission System Operations Michelle Cathcart told the Northwest Power and Conservation Council at its Sept. 15 meeting. Read More
Arizona's second-largest utility narrowly approved a nearly $1-billion expansion in natural gas generating capacity despite pronounced opposition and concerns over the potential for stranded assets. Read More
The Colorado Public Utilities Commission is reviewing proposals for cost recovery related to a spike in natural gas prices during a February winter storm that led to record-high wholesale prices for natural gas across the Midwest and Intermountain West. Read More
The House Energy and Commerce Committee on Sept. 14 reported out legislation that would establish the Clean Electricity Performance Program to prod utilities to increase the amount of low- and zero-carbon generating resources in their portfolios. Read More
