President Joe Biden has designated two more national monuments in California, spanning 848,000 acres - the Chuckwalla National Monument and the Sáttítla Highlands National Monument. The Chuckwalla National Monument creates...more
1/20/2025
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Biden Administration ,
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Data Centers ,
Department of Energy (DOE) ,
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Federal Land ,
National Monuments ,
New Jersey ,
Offshore Wind ,
Renewable Energy ,
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The Biden administration is proposing to speed up the process of approving geothermal energy projects by exempting them from early-stage environmental reviews....more
The Biden administration on April 25 finalized a rule meant to speed up federal permits for major transmission lines, part of a broader push to expand America’s electric grids. Administration officials are increasingly...more
The Department of the Interior’s Bureau of Land Management (BLM) has finalized the Renewable Energy Rule, which will cut fees by up to 80% for wind and solar projects developed on federal land. In addition, the DOI announced...more
The California Independent System Operator (CAISO) is proposing $6.1 billion in transmission projects, primarily to help deliver offshore wind to customers, according to a draft transmission plan released on April 1....more
4/12/2024
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U.S. Treasury ,
USDA
In recognition of the substantial effect that widespread use of electric vehicles (EVs) will have in reducing carbon emissions, the state and federal government have set ambitious goals to increase the number of EVs on the...more
10/18/2023
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Power Grid ,
Renewable Energy ,
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Solar Panels ,
State and Local Government
The Biden administration hopes to create a commercial nuclear fusion facility within 10 years as part of the nation’s transition to clean energy, U.S. Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm said on Monday. Fusion works by...more
10/2/2023
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Solar Panels
The California Legislature voted Thursday to give Governor Gavin Newsom’s administration permission to buy massive amounts of electricity, a move aimed at avoiding blackouts by shoring up the state’s power supply while...more
9/21/2023
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Energy Storage ,
Hydropower ,
Offshore Wind ,
Renewable Energy ,
Solar Energy ,
Solar Farm ,
State and Local Government ,
Supply Chain ,
Wind Power
President Joe Biden traveled to Philadelphia last Thursday as his administration announced the first-ever sale of offshore wind leases in the Gulf of Mexico, which caps several years of advancing offshore wind in the Pacific...more
Governor Gavin Newsom signed a package of bills on Monday aimed at streamlining the construction of solar and wind farms, reservoirs, bridges, railways, and other infrastructure projects in California....more
7/17/2023
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Green Banks ,
Greenhouse Gas Emissions ,
Power Grid ,
Renewable Energy ,
Solar Energy ,
Solar Farm
The U.S. solar industry had the most growth of any quarter in its history in Q1 2023, as delayed projects from 2022 came online and supply chain constraints showed signs of loosening. According to a new report from Wood...more
Electricity generated from renewables surpassed coal in the United States for the first time in 2022, the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) announced Monday. Renewables also surpassed nuclear generation for the...more
4/3/2023
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FERC ,
Geothermal Energy ,
Hydropower ,
Renewable Energy ,
Solar Farm ,
US Fish and Wildlife Service
Last Thursday, the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) approved a plan that will set the state on a course to adding 86,000 MW of new resources to the grid by 2035. That amounts to “more than a doubling of the...more
The Biden administration announced initiatives on February 22 to prepare states for floating offshore wind, which some say could revolutionize renewables on the West Coast. The plans from the White House, Department of Energy...more
California utility regulators on Thursday approved major changes to the state’s booming rooftop solar market that they say will more evenly spread the cost of energy and help reduce the state’s reliance on fossil fuels in the...more
12/22/2022
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Fossil Fuel ,
Geothermal Energy ,
Hydrogen Power ,
Oregon ,
Power Grid ,
Renewable Energy ,
Solar Energy ,
Solar Farm ,
Texas
The Department of Energy on Tuesday announced a scientific breakthrough in nuclear fusion at a national lab in California, marking a major step toward developing a new, sustainable form of energy that releases virtually no...more
12/16/2022
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Microsoft ,
Nike ,
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Wildfires
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BLM says it will approve largest U.S. solar farm -
Los Angeles Times – January 1 -
Federal officials plan to approve a massive solar farm with energy storage in the desert outside Las Vegas, paving the way...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 bill proposes a backstop authority to secure state’s power grid needs -
Greentech Media - April 17 -
California lawmakers are grappling with a complicated yet critical issue — how to secure the...more
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New siting survey underscores major solar potential in San Diego -
SOLAR INDUSTRY MAGAZINE - Jan 15 The nonprofit Clean Coalition has released a new resource highlighting the significant level of...more
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GOP senators want to exempt giant solar farm panels from tariffs -
BLOOMBERG - May 11 Republican senators from five states with big solar farms are asking the Trump administration to exempt the workhorse of...more
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U.S. corporate solar procurement surges in 2017 -
GREENTECH MEDIA - Apr 12 Corporate procurement of solar is on the rise for both distributed generation and offsite utility PV. As a testament to that trend,...more
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UC researchers identify nontraditional sites for future solar farms -
UC Riverside - Dec 19 There’s a tradeoff when sprawling solar farms pop up on agricultural land: farmland disappears, perhaps forever, in...more
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City of Industry publicly approves massive solar farm -
San Gabriel Valley Tribune - Oct 12 After working behind closed doors for a year, the City of Industry publicly approved agreements last Thursday to build...more
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California Senate leader unveils new proposal to phase out use of fossil fuels to generate electricity -
Los Angeles Times -
May 2 -
California would completely phase out the use of...more