Solar power has grown to enormous levels in California, and that solar power is keeping wholesale prices low. Wind power, water power, and solar power all mean free fuel, and free fuel means low wholesale electricity prices. This is not news, but given how much people love to exclaim “California … [continued]
Solar power and battery storage projects continue to grow strong around the world, in the US, and in California. A big project just commissioned in California adds to that story. The new project is from renewable energy developer, owner, and operator Arevon Energy. It is the Eland 1 Solar-plus-Storage Project … [continued]
California has been a leader in the installation of solar power plants and wind power plants for many years now (despite its recent anti-rooftop solar shift via “Net Metering 3.0”). That has led to more and more of its electricity generation coming from renewables. The trend has been going on … [continued]
From June 8 through June 9, 2023, U.S. Secretary of Energy Jennifer M. Granholm visited California to highlight the Biden-Harris Administration’s commitment to expanding the nation’s clean energy workforce and deploying every tool to deliver cleaner, cheaper energy to American families — including nuclear energy, the nation’s largest current source … [continued]
As Earth Month drew to a close, the state of California was recently able to produce virtually all of their energy needs from renewable sources for the first time ever. In early April, the state achieved a new record at 97.6% renewable power, and on May 2 they were able to reach … [continued]
California’s Public Utility Commission (PUC) is proposing not only cutting the state’s rooftop solar energy incentive after several years of success (and debate), but it also wants to punish homeowners who use solar power to generate their electricity. Reuters notes that under these proposed reforms, California homeowners with new solar … [continued]
The U.S. Energy Information Administration recently published a special short profile on New York’s renewable energy leadership and split. What I found particularly interesting in the piece, though, was the variation in renewable energy splits in the different top states.
In this article, I’ll talk about what Texas is doing with utility-scale solar and how the motivation is different than many other states.
Every year, the California Energy Commission releases its Renewable Portfolio Standard (RPS) report, which gives details about the mix of energy experienced by all utilities within the state during the preceding 12 months. The report for this year, released in November, shows that all three of the state’s investor-owned utilities — Pacific Gas & Electric, Southern California Edison, and San Diego Gas & Electric — are projected to derive 50% of their electricity from renewable sources by 2020. That is a full decade ahead of schedule. PG&E reports it used 32.9% renewable energy in the past year. The figure for SoCal Edison was 28.2%. San Diego Gas & Electric led the pack with 43.2% renewable energy.
Note: We’re trying to get back into helping homeowners who want to go solar and who want to switch to an electric car. That was a core of our work in the past, and I think it’s one of the most valuable things we can do for consumers and to … [continued]
