In the largest public referendum in history on climate and clean energy policy, US voters in the eighth largest economy in the world voted to keep going forward on clean energy, and soundly repudiated the arguments of the fossil energy industry. No on Prop 23 voters spanned the full spectrum … [continued]
The Independent Energy Producers Association is a leading non-profit California trade organization and the oldest of its kind in the state. Together, its members represent about one-third of California’s generating capacity, so when IEPA speaks, people listen. Yesterday IEPA Executive Director Jan Smutny-Jones spoke. He issued a statement declaring that … [continued]
The California based solar power financing company SunRun has leaped front and center into the fight against Proposition 23, the upcoming ballot measure that would effectively dismantle the state’s thriving alternative energy sector. At last week’s Solar Power International conference, SunRun joined with other alternative energy companies to urge voters … [continued]
The solar industry seems to be finally waking up to the fact that it has enemies, according to Jennifer Runyon, the editor at Renewable Energy World. She noted that at Solar Power International this week in Los Angeles, after Rhone Resch, President of the Solar Energy Industries Association (SEAI) highlighted all … [continued]
The new attack by the oil industry on clean energy in California using the Prop 23 ballot initiative doesn’t have only California’s nascent green energy industry on tenterhooks. Nervous wind developers as far away as Montana are now holding off on reserving transmission space, till they see how much renewable … [continued]
The renewable energy gloves are off in the great state of California, as state regulators have just okayed a new rule that would require utilities to get a full one-third of their power from renewable energy including solar and wind power. That’s right in the face of an aggressive push by the fossil fuel industry to roll back AB 32, California’s new state law that requires greenhouse gas reporting by major polluters.
Forget the Thrilla in Manilla, California is the epicenter of the fight of the century, at least when it comes down to the battle between fossil fuels and clean energy tech. A new coalition of California clean tech companies, labor organizations, community groups and environmental has just launched an effort … [continued]
For the last 20 years, Republican Senators have been held to single standard of climate denial by the fossil industry which sends them there. But Republican Governors were left alone. [social_buttons] Thus California’s Republican governor, Arnold Schwarzenegger has been synonymous with active support for clean energy. Likewise, Florida’s Republican Governor … [continued]
Today, PG&E formally came out in opposition to Prop 23, the oil-company-sponsored ballot initiative that is designed to shut down AB32 – California’s progressive climate legislation passed by voters in 2006 and due to be implemented in January 2011. “Since actively supporting the passage of AB 32, PG&E has worked … [continued]
California’s PG&E has just invested $100 million in SunRun, which offers solar power purchase agreements, (in addition to its earlier $61 million investment in Solar City‘s solar lease), through its investment arm, Pacific Energy Capital. Some of the California utility investment will help homeowners in other states, like Texas, get … [continued]
