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What Happens When California’s 33 Percent Renewables Mandate Is Met?

June 7, 2013

Greentech Media | By Herman K. Trabish | Link to article “If we are going to go beyond 33 percent, it matters how the resources fit together. We have to plan for that.” A just-proposed California law would do away with the state’s 33 percent renewables mandate in favor of a coherently procured greentech future. [...]

Assemblyman V. Manuel Pérez Advances New Statewide Energy Procurement Policy

June 6, 2013

Greentech Media | By Herman K. Trabish | Link to article Sacramento, California – Today, Assemblyman V. Manuel Pérez put forth a legislative proposal for a new coordinated approach to state energy procurement that emphasizes affordability and reliability, while helping the state meet its greenhouse gas emission goals and improve air quality through the enhanced [...]

Senator Calls for Justice Investigation of SCE on San Onofre Renovation

May 29, 2013

Greentech Media | By Herman K. Trabish | Link to article Faced with no nuclear power, the state’s system operator is making alternate plans and issuing warnings. Letters suggesting that the San Onofre nuclear plant operator purposely misrepresented renovations at the facility to regulators means the plant will likely not be back on-line in time [...]

Despite Fears, New Renewables Are Not Bankrupting California

May 22, 2013

RenewableEnergyWorld.com | By Susan Kraemer | Link to article Until recently, the potential rate impact of all the new contracts for renewable energy being added to meet California’s Renewable Portfolio Standard since 2006 has been a matter of some concern. According to the Division of Ratepayer Advocates in early 2012, an estimated $20.8 billion will [...]

‘Peak Fossil Fuels’ Is Closer Than You Think: BNEF

April 24, 2013

Bloomberg | By Tom Randall | Link to article Every time an iPhone is charged or an episode of “Mad Men” plays on a television, puffs of vaporized carbon join the atmosphere, products of power-plant combustion. And every year the world demands more. That era may be nearing an end, as the world approaches “peak [...]

U.N. official describes a ‘dark night’ for global carbon trading

April 18, 2013

E&E Publishing | By Debra Kahn, | Link to article SAN FRANCISCO — Depressed carbon markets in the European Union underscore the need for a globally linked trading scheme, including California’s first-in-the-U.S. economywide cap-and-trade program, a top international climate official said yesterday. The European Parliament’s rejection of a plan to fix a heavily oversupplied emissions [...]