California Energy Update 8/3

California Got 20% of Its Power from Renewable Sources in the First Half of 2012 Treehugger For the first six months of 2012, California generated one fifth of its electricity from renewable sources. The California Public Utilities Commission just released its first/second quarter 2012 renewable energy progress report to the Legislature, and ...

California weighs innovative community solar bill San Jose Mercury News Senate Bill 843 aims to bring an additional 2 gigawatts of renewable energy online within the territories of the state's three largest utilities: PG&E, Southern California Edison and San Diego Gas & Electric. Two gigawatts is nothing to sneeze at: One ...

Stake Vampire Power With Help From EUMV. Patch.com Energy Upgrade California in Mountain View held a workshop Aug. 1 detailing ways you cut, on average, a third of your power bill with little to no cost by simply … unplugging everything?Actually, it's a bit more

California's pioneering energy storage mandate moves forward GigaOM California lawmakers passed a bill in late 2010 that fell short of requiring utilities to invest in energy storage but did give the California Public Utilities Commission the task of looking into whether a mandate is a good idea and what that mandate ... See all stories on this topic »

6 Ways California Is Planning to Adapt to Climate Change Mother Jones The report, put out by the California Energy Commission and Natural Resources Agency on Tuesday, combines the work of dozens of research teams and will lay the foundation for a climate change adaptation strategy for the state, due out by the end of ...

California on course for renewable energy UPI.com California's mandated target set in 2003, known as the Renewable Portfolio Standard, says utilities must average 20 percent renewable energy in the power they sell customers from 2011-13, increasing to 33 percent by 2020. From 2003-11, California ...

JPMorgan Chase denies manipulating California's electricity market Sacramento Bee Energy trader JPMorgan Chase & Co. denies charges that it manipulated California's electricity market for extra profit. The Wall Street giant calls itself the victim of strong-arm tactics by state officials – and is demanding that they return millions ...

Two California Projects Selected for Transformational Energy Storage Research ... ScoopSanDiego.com The Department of Energy today announced that 19 transformative new projects will receive a total of $43 million in funding from the Department's Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) to leverage the nation's brightest scientists, engineers ...

Emanuel Deflects Solyndra Questions to White House NBC Chicago (blog) When asked about the California-based green energy company that filed for bankruptcy after receiving a massive government loan, Mayor Rahm Emanuel said it's not a topic that concerns him and quickly pivots the discussion to city issues he finds more ...

Power purchase agreement brings solar energy to Coconut Island UH System Current News A power purchase agreement recently signed between the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa and San Mateo, California-based solar energy company SolarCity will provide renewable solar energy to the Hawaiʻi Institute of Marine Biology on Coconut Island for ...

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