The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission upheld its previous granting of an incentive adder to Pacific Gas & Electric for being a member of an independent system operator, again rejecting a challenge by California energy regulators. Read More
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The East Bay Community Energy board of directors on July 17 approved three more contracts totaling 112 MW of solar and 7.5 MW of battery storage. Read More
The bankruptcy of Pacific Gas & Electric is putting the state’s renewable-generation goals in jeopardy, worrying developers of renewables projects that have exposure to the utility. Read More
The amount of natural gas used across the United States to meet power demand reached an all-time high of 43.8 Bcf per day July 17. Read More
Incoming California Public Utilities Commission President Marybel Batjer is going to have her work cut out for her. Read More
Attorneys for Pacific Gas & Electric protested a motion by the California Public Utilities Commission ratepayer advocate to consider alternatives to the utility in Northern California, saying in a July 12 filing that the proposal could jeopardize its reorganization process. Read More
The California Public Utilities Commission on July 2 proposed Liberty Power and Gexa Energy pay a combined total of about $2 million in fines for their failure to meet the state’s renewable-energy procurement requirements. Read More
Collaboration with China will drive California’s energy policies more than any other relationship in the world, allowing the two regions to “hold hands” and reduce global greenhouse gases, the California Energy Commission said at its July 15 business meeting. Read More
Frank Wolak, director of the Program on Energy and Sustainable Development at Stanford University, joined Paul Dockery of Clatskanie PUD for the third installation of our "Electric Market Enthusiasm" series. The conversation uses his work on "Long-Term Resource Adequacy in Wholesale Electricity Markets with Significant Intermittent Renewables" and the Energy Market Game to discuss export curtailment, the reliability externality and electric market design elements. Read more
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Lawyers for Pacific Gas & Electric accused a group of its bondholders of attempting to “hijack” its bankruptcy by proposing a reorganization plan for the company. Read More
The recent passage of sweeping new utility wildfire liability legislation—which some say favors shareholders over ratepayers—marks the first time that ratepayer dollars have been specifically allotted to pay for future wildfires, guaranteeing that retail rates will rise, panelists at an indu… Read More
Southern California Edison said July 15 it intends to resume spent nuclear fuel transfer operations at the shuttered San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station, following “rigorous regulatory, internal and third-party readiness and operational reviews.” Read More
Community choice aggregators across California are moving to surpass state renewables mandates and address other pressing issues such as grid decarbonization and climate, shifting energy procurement from investor-owned utilities in relatively rapid fashion. Read More
New buildings constructed in the city of Berkeley must be all-electric after the City Council unanimously passed an ordinance at its July 16 meeting to address building decarbonization. Read More
Southern California Edison in June asked renewable natural gas developers to provide solutions on how the investor-owned utility could replace 7 percent of its natural gas power generation with the energy resource. Read More
The impact of expanding renewable-energy development in the Southwest is changing laws, regulatory policy and the economy in many states. But building the transmission infrastructure needed to deliver wind and solar power generated in rural parts of the region to its load centers and to Cali… Read More
Renewable-energy production in New Mexico is experiencing a “boom,” according to the New Mexico State Land Office, which recently announced the awarding of a bid for state land to a wind developer. Read More
Westminster, Colorado-based Tri-State Generation and Transmission Association will close the 100-MW coal-fired Nucla Station power plant in southwestern Colorado two years early as part of the wholesale cooperative’s new commitment to reduce fossil-fuel usage and pursue a Responsible Energy Plan. Read More
The National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners and utility trade groups went to court to challenge the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission’s Order No. 841 that cleared the way for energy storage resources to buy and sell energy, capacity and ancillary services in organized who… Read More