The Dixie Fire in several counties in Northern California, which Pacific Gas & Electric is under investigation for possibly causing, has burned more than 1,000 structures, which would trigger the next step of the California Public Utilities Commission's six-step enforcement process if PG… Read More
About midafternoon on Aug. 4, I was sitting in Starbucks in Grass Valley getting some work done, with intermittent bouts of scrolling through Twitter as I often do (in a media job, this counts as work, it really does). On a day that was hot, but with a clear blue sky, a tweet from Yubanet Fi… Read More
Weather continued to drive energy prices across the western U.S., although there wasn't a clear correlation between conditions and prices. Read More
The further into the future California energy officials look, the larger grows the state's projected energy supply shortage, expanding by thousands of megawatts and now sitting at more than 5,000 MW. Read More
After two years of effort, lawsuits and public workshops, energy officials in California this week approved a "landmark" building energy-efficiency code revision that is perhaps the "most significant" in the California Energy Commission's history, CEC Chair David Hochschild said during an Au… Read More
Vantage Data Centers has asked the California Energy Commission to grant a small-power-plant exemption for 44 large diesel generators at a proposed data center in Santa Clara. Read More
Karen Heim (Public Power Council), Dan Catchpole (NewsData; Clearing Up), Ian Bledsoe (Clatskanie PUD) and Paul Dockery (Clatskanie PUD) start the new year catching up on electric utility news across the region. Read more
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An oft-cited rationale for creating a community choice aggregator is that it will not only provide local control of electric generation procurement, but will also enable the entity to launch community energy-efficiency programs benefiting all its customers. Read More
With little to no rain in the West, the U.S. Drought Monitor this week said the region's drought categorizations remain largely unchanged. Read More
The measured wholesale cost to serve electrical load in the California Independent System Operator territory rose only 3 percent last year, but actual costs rose by about 19 percent when lower natural gas and greenhouse gas compliance prices are figured in, a new report says. Read More
The Northwest was buzzing this week with the prospect of the Bonneville Power Administration's borrowing authority increasing by $10 billion, after the U.S. Senate passed the $1.2-trillion Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act on Aug. 10. Read More
Hearings on the proposed merger between Public Service Company of New Mexico, the state's largest utility, and Avangrid, the utility arm of Spanish multinational energy company Iberdrola, began this week before the New Mexico Public Regulation Commission without representation by Iberdrola's… Read More
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission recently approved a wholesale rate settlement between Tri-State Generation and Transmission Association and its 42 utility members in four states, resolving the first major rate case the wholesale power provider has filed since becoming subject to fed… Read More
A Vermont-based renewable-energy retailer that serves customers in Texas, Illinois and five states in the eastern U.S. has applied to operate in the service territories of Arizona's two largest investor-owned utility monopolies. Read More
In what has been deemed a dramatic change from its recent predecessors, the New Mexico Public Regulation Commission is taking a proactive stance on many issues, from the request-for-proposals process to the promotion of clean energy resources, one of the subtle surprises in the state's regul… Read More
The Senate on Aug. 11 passed a $3.5-trillion budget resolution that paves the way for legislation including a "clean-electricity payment program" and incentives for zero-carbon energy, electric vehicles, home electrification and weatherization. Read More
