Biden Unveils Ambitious Solar Plan for Western US States

A new roadmap released Wednesday by the Biden administration spells out a plan to bring a significant amount of [...]

California Gov Newsom Signs Law on Centralized Procurement System for Clean Energy Resources

“With the signing of AB 1373, Governor Gavin Newsom and the Legislature have shown that California is committed to [...]

California Leads Other States With Their Ambitious Electric Vehicle Mandate

Under the Clean Air Act, states must abide by the federal government’s vehicle emissions standards unless they at least partially [...]

New California Legislation Would Create 30% Tax Credit With Direct Pay Option for Qualifying Microgrids

On April 14, California State Congressman Jimmy Panetta (D-Carmel Valley) introduced the Making Imperiled Communities Resistant to Outages with [...]

New Solar Access Act Aims to Implement Automated Solar Permitting in Most California cities

Senator Scott Wiener (D-San Francisco) introduced SB 617, the Solar Access Act. SB 617 implements automated solar permitting in local [...]

California CCAs Form Joint Buying Group, Creating Big-Time Power Purchaser

Community choice aggregators, already poised to add most of California’s new clean power, are teaming up to go big [...]

California Regulators Modify Grid Map Requirements to Ease Solar Integration

Integration Capacity Analysis models grid conditions that impact where distributed energy resources can be added, without the need for [...]

California Sets $200M Budget for ‘Complex, Multi-Property Microgrid’ Projects

Utility funding for community resilience against fire-prevention outages doesn’t go far enough, microgrid groups argue. California regulators have approved [...]

Net Metering Policy Takes Center Stage in California

The nation’s biggest solar market now faces regulators’ biggest solar conundrum — the cost shift. California’s long-awaited proceeding on [...]

California’s Pathway to 100% Clean Electricity

California’s energy agencies are taking a first stab at assessing possible pathways to the state’s ambitious goal of achieving [...]