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Clean Power Alliance is looking for renewables, at all scales -
PV Magazine – October 23 -
Community choice aggregators (CCAs), entities formed by local governments to take over the procurement of energy in...more
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Renewable energy to expand by 50% in next five years -
The Guardian – October 21 -
Global supplies of renewable electricity are growing faster than expected and could expand by 50 percent in the next five years,...more
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Governor Newsom signs ‘clean power, smart power’ bill into law -
Solar Industry Magazine – October 15 -
Governor Gavin Newsom has signed into law a bill designed to help California meet its electric grid...more
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PacifiCorp to add 7 GW of renewables and storage, close 20 of 24 coal plants -
Utility Dive – October 3 -
PacifiCorp plans to add nearly 7 gigawatts of renewable generation and storage capacity by 2025 and will...more
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CAISO to develop regional day-ahead market for renewables after participant push -
Utility Dive – September 23 -
The California ISO (CAISO) will move ahead with the development of a stakeholder process to create a...more
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Landmark law that spurred growth of U.S. renewable energy market set for overhaul -
Transmission & Distribution World – September 25 -
A 40-year-old law that has been key to the growth of renewable energy in the...more
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San Diego City Council takes the leap into community choice energy -
The San Diego Union-Tribune – September 17 -
The city of San Diego is about to enter the power-purchasing business. On a 7-2 vote this Tuesday...more
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Bipartisan Senate bill allocates $100M to ease residential solar and storage permitting -
Utility Dive – September 10 -
Senators Martin Heinrich, D-New Mexico, and Susan Collins, R-Maine, introduced a bill this...more
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California lawmaker aims to stop closure of Diablo Canyon nuclear plant -
San Francisco Chronicle – September 4 -
A Central Coast lawmaker has a new plan to keep California’s last operational nuclear power...more
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Los Angeles has lined up record-cheap solar power. But there’s a problem -
Los Angeles Times – August 27 -
Los Angeles has been sitting on a contract for record-cheap solar power for more than a month, but the...more
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California proposes $100M in energy storage incentives to boost wildfire resiliency -
Greentech Media – August 21 -
California regulators want to direct $100 million in state energy storage incentives to a...more
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Could offshore wind turbines help power Vandenberg? A French company wants to find out -
The Tribune – August 12 -
Prospects for floating wind projects off California have been stalled for several years, largely...more
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U.S. energy storage market grew by nearly 45 percent in 2018 -
Utility Dive – August 6 -
The U.S. energy storage market interconnected a total of 760.3 megawatts-per-hour last year, an increase of 44.9 percent over...more
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California farmers are planting solar panels as water supplies dry up -
Los Angeles Times – July 31 -
In the San Joaquin Valley alone, farmers may need to take more than half a million acres out of production to...more
8/5/2019
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Expiring U.S. solar subsidy spurs rush for panels -
Reuters – July 18 -
The country’s biggest solar power developers are stockpiling panels to lock in a 30 percent federal tax credit set to start phasing out...more
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NREL study shows mass potential for storage to provide peaking capacity -
Utility Dive – July 10 -
The booming U.S. battery storage market is showing no signs of slowing down, and a new report says its prospects...more
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General Electric to demolish California power plant 20 years early -
Solar Industry Magazine – June 17 -
General Electric Co. said last Friday that it plans to demolish a 750-megawatt natural gas-fired...more
6/28/2019
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Investors confident in U.S. renewables, especially utility-scale solar: ACORE -
Solar Industry Magazine – June 17 -
One year into its campaign of reaching $1 trillion in U.S. private-sector investment in...more
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NextEra loses bankruptcy court jurisdiction fight with PG&E over renewables contracts -
Utility Dive – June 11 -
A bankruptcy judge has ruled that the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) does not have...more
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California has too much solar power. That might be good for ratepayers -
Los Angeles Times – June 5 -
California set two renewable energy records last week: the most solar power ever flowing on the state’s main...more
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Solar, onshore wind costs set to fall below new fossil fuel energy -
Reuters – May 29 -
Electricity generated by onshore wind and solar photovoltaic (PV) technologies will in the next year be consistently...more
6/3/2019
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U.S. set to overtake South Korea in 2019 as world’s largest market for grid-connected battery energy storage -
Renewable Energy World – May 22 -
The United States in 2019 will become the world’s largest...more
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U.S. surpasses 2 million solar installations -
Solar Power World - May 9 -
The U.S. is now home to more than 2 million solar PV installations, according to Wood Mackenzie Power & Renewables and the Solar Energy...more
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In new challenge for California’s utilities, rating agency warms to community aggregators -
Greentech Media - May 7 -
The community choice aggregators disrupting California’s electricity market have come a...more
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sPower and MCE complete largest operational CCA solar project in California -
PV-Tech - April 29 -
sPower and MCE have commenced commercial operations at the 130-megawatt Antelope Expansion 2 PV project in...more