Utility funding for community resilience against fire-prevention outages doesn’t go far enough, microgrid groups argue. California regulators have approved a microgrid plan directing $200 million to help communities build networks that can supply power through the state’s extended wildfire-prevention blackouts, a task expected to take years to move from planning to completing its first projects. […]
USF acquires 200MW Californian solar plant
US Solar Fund (USF) is to acquire up to a 50% interest in a 200MW operating solar plant located in the Imperial Valley of Southern California. USF will acquire Mount Signal 2 (MS2) from New Energy Solar Fund (NEW), an Australia listed (ASX) solar fund, also managed by USF’s investment manager, New Energy Solar Manager. […]
Hannon Armstrong and Clearway Link $950M Solar, Wind and Storage Investment
Nearly 2 gigawatts of existing and new projects from Hawaii and California to Texas and West Virginia. Hannon Armstrong and Clearway Energy Inc. are jointly investing about $950 million in a nearly 2-gigawatt portfolio of existing and new wind, solar and energy storage projects, capping off a year of record-setting U.S. renewables growth with an […]
Sempra develops plan to inject hydrogen into California natgas grid
Sempra said its Southern California Gas Co (SoCalGas) and San Diego Gas & Electric (SDG&E) utilities were planning multiple hydrogen blending projects throughout their service territories. U.S. energy company Sempra Energy said Monday that two of its California utilities were developing a program to use surplus renewable power to produce green hydrogen that can be […]
Expanding California’s EV infrastructure with a program for more charging stations
California Gov. Gavin Newsom declared his intent on Sept. 23 to eliminate the sales of new internal combustion engines in the state by 2035, building on ambitious climate and emissions goals dating back to Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and strengthened under Gov. Jerry Brown. It’s an audacious goal – keeping in line with California’s leadership on […]
California’s Misguided Electric Vehicle Policies
Some California elected officials have long been pushing electric vehicle (EV) usage as a “silver bullet” solution to addressing climate change. Which is why Governor Gavin Newsom’s latest executive order, that bans the production of new gas and diesel cars by 2035, came as a little surprise to most. While this may be a noble […]
Ormat Technologies Expands Energy Storage Footprint in California
RENO, Nev : Ormat Technologies, Inc. (NYSE: ORA) today announced that it has signed two Resource Adequacy Agreements, each for 50% of its 5 MW / 20 MWh Tierra Buena battery energy storage project currently under development in Sutter County, northern California. Two Community Choice Aggregators (“CCAs”), Redwood Coast Energy Authority (“RCEA”) and Valley Clean […]
$28 Million Electric Vehicle Charging Program Launches in California
A $28 million effort to install electric vehicle (EV) charging infrastructure at commercial workplaces, multi-family dwellings and other public locations in California has launched. It is the largest EV charging infrastructure program tied to a single Community Choice Aggregation (CCA) agency. EV Ready intends to install 3,500 charging ports in San Mateo County over the […]
California Approves Energy Storage Systems to Bolster Grid
California approved one of the the biggest installations of batterybased energy-storage systems in the U.S. as the state moves to add power resources to its grid after suffering from rolling blackouts.Read More.. Source : bloombergquint
California Greenlights Electric Vehicle Charging Program For 38,000 New Charging Stations
San Francisco, California : Today, in a 5-0 vote, the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) unanimously approved Southern California Edison’s (SCE) Charge Ready 2 program, a $437 million electric vehicle (EV) infrastructure program that will support deploying up to 38,000 new charging stations across Southern California over the next four years. This program is the […]