
Energy storage
Big batteries are booming in California, but the outlook for small-scale storage just got more uncertain
A new plan for solar net metering could slow adoption of home batteries — just when the state needs them most.
Energy storage
A new plan for solar net metering could slow adoption of home batteries — just when the state needs them most.
Clean industry
Three companies are attracting private and public funding for their potentially game-changing efforts to extract lithium from brine in California.
Fossil fuels
Once again, disadvantaged communities bear the brunt when cleaner grid buildouts lag behind schedule.
Utilities
Wildfires and other climate disasters are pushing PG&E to put lines underground, but it's a notoriously expensive process.
Fossil fuels
Decarbonization advocates are fighting ratepayer subsidies that incentivize the growth of an increasingly obsolete gas system.
Batteries
A surge in retired EV batteries is helping to eliminate second-life EV battery storage hurdles, just in time to help meet clean energy mandates.
Hydrogen
LA wants to fuel its public utility with carbon-free hydrogen. Can it break through the nascent industry’s economic and technical challenges?
EV charging
A six-year-old permitting law hasn’t unblocked installation delays — so state lawmakers are now considering mandates.
Utilities
Wildfire liability financing under scrutiny in California could presage efforts in other states to offset costs of coal plant retirements and climate-change mitigations.
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