Last week the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) unanimously approved a long-term procurement decision that orders Southern California Edison (SCE) — the primary supplier of electricity for much of Southern California — to procure between 1,400 and 1,800 megawatts of energy resource capacity in the Los Angeles basin to meet … [continued]
MidAmerican Wind announced Sunday the purchase of two wind projects from California Highwind Power, a subsidiary of Terra-Gen Power. The two projects — the 168-megawatt Alta Wind VII and the 132-megawatt Alta Wind IX — are part of the Alta Wind Energy Center and will feature a total of 100 Vestas 3-megawatt … [continued]
North America’s largest provider of solar mounting structures for residential, commercial, and utility solar power systems, Unirac, has been awarded a contract by Bechtel Power Corporation to supply the ground mount system for the 110-MW AC Catalina Solar Photovoltaic (PV) Project in Kern County in Southern California, one of the largest photovoltaic … [continued]
BrightSource Energy — solar utility juggernaut — appears to have won the bidding on an auction for the 500-MW Palen solar project in California, which was being sold by Solar Trust of America LLC after the company filed for bankruptcy in April. Sources suggest that BrightSource Energy was the … [continued]
Below is a pretty interesting photo of the San Gorgonio wind farm in southern California. The access roads look a bit like veins. The short article below the photo includes more information on the wind farm and photo. [repostus hash=f2f035e047ce85593237623ead731b43 title=Wind%20Farm%20in%20San%20Gorgonio host=redOrbit short=18bWT]
A new study has found that being able to purchase a rooftop solar panel system is often a privilege of the affluent, but that leasing rooftop solar panel systems is an increasingly popular option for those who simply don’t have the money to pay up front. Asked time and time … [continued]
Riverside Public Utilities is a small electric power utility that serves 107,000 metered electric customers in Southern California. Like its bigger cousins in the sunshine state, it is aggressively pursuing renewable energy targets. But its high goal is threatened by the collapse of financing for a geothermal project it signed a contract for – that would have raised the supply of its renewable energy to 37%.
The desire to avoid solar confrontations with neighbors could have an effect on architectural design. Here’s how one Southern California homeowner solved that on a new home in San Diego: he hid the panels behind a parapet. California has already had a law on the books for three decades: The … [continued]
