california Archives - Page 7 of 9 - Renew Economy

Hawaii’s biggest utility wants to ditch solar net metering
New tariff will pay less for solar, but open the grid to more customer-owned PV.
Jeff St John

Jan 22, 2015

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Can distributed resources replace $1bn in substation upgrades?
New York’s main utility is proposing $200m distributed energy investments, to avoid $1 billion of upgrades to centralised grid.
Jeff St John

Dec 23, 2014

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North American carbon markets link in $500m clean energy investment
The $500m raised highlights the potential for expansion and international system linkages to fight climate change.
Silvio Marcacci

Dec 16, 2014

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Texas city aims for 950MW of solar, bold distributed energy goals
Austin city council approves plan for 55% generation to come from renewables, energy efficiency and other clean resources by 2025.
Jeff St John

Dec 15, 2014

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Solar & wind power are changing net load shapes in California
As more solar and wind electric generating capacity is added in California, the CAISO is facing an increasingly different net load shape.
Energy Information Administration

Dec 12, 2014

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Big Oil aims to kill clean energy target in western US states
A major new petroleum industry campaign is afoot to shoot down clean energy regulations in all three West Coast states.
Tina Casey

Dec 3, 2014

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Topaz, largest solar plant in the world, is now fully operational
The 550-megawatt Topaz project is on-line and sending power to the California grid.
Eric Wesoff

Nov 26, 2014

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6 potential US grid-scale energy storage projects
It’s true more homeowners are getting solar panels, but large, cheap home energy systems don’t exist yet. It does appear they will be coming, however.
Jake Richardson

Nov 5, 2014

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The $8bln, 2,100MW wind energy project with storage
The key to $8 billion California wind energy project would be a massive compressed air energy storage system using salt caverns in Utah.
Tina Casey

Sep 30, 2014

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The local and global impact of Tesla’s giga factory
Tesla giga factory in Nevada will make it the epicenter of real-world energy storage work.
Jeff St John

Sep 5, 2014

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With solar and storage, do energy markets need regulation?
Regulators in California, like those in NY and Hawaii, have realise that business as usual is not going to cut it in the future.
Fereidoon Sioshansi

Sep 3, 2014

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California’s EV strategy opens a portal to America’s future
California is poised to open a portal to America’s future, shoving Big Oil off the highways to make room for cleaner transportation alternatives.
Cynthia Shahan

Sep 2, 2014

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