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1 week ago | 
newsdata.com | Linda Dailey Paulson
Progress on approvals for three proposed geothermal projects in the Salton Sea has been paused indefinitely at a time when load-serving entities are seeking to add geothermal generation to their energy portfolios.
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1 week ago | 
newsdata.com | Linda Dailey Paulson
A $5 million grant awarded by the California Energy Commission provides funding for a northern California consortium to expand microgrid solutions to tribal communities that are currently dealing with the worst energy reliability in California. The Schatz Energy Research Center and Redwood Coast Energy Authority are working with the Blue Lake Rancheria, Karuk, Hoopa and Yurok tribal governments as well as Pacific Gas & Electric on the Tribal Energy Resilience and Sovereignty project.
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1 week ago | 
newsdata.com | Linda Dailey Paulson
The California Public Utilities Commission passed regulations and a multimillion-dollar funding package designed to help ease California consumers' transition to all-electric residences.
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1 week ago | 
newsdata.com | Linda Dailey Paulson
Although California officials continue touting the amount of energy storage available to store excess solar, system and local renewables curtailments by the California Independent System Operator are on pace to surpass the 2024 record, according to one analysis. As of May 31, CAISO had curtailed roughly 2.75 TW of energy in 2025, and had curtailed a total of almost 14.4 TW since 2020 through the same date, according to the grid operator. kAmr@?DE6==2E:@? 2?2=JDED’ >2E9 5:776CD] x?
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2 weeks ago | 
newsdata.com | Linda Dailey Paulson
The California Energy Commission on June 11 unanimously approved what will be the largest energy storage project in the world, the first to be approved under a controversial "opt-in certification" process that allows state agencies to bypass local permitting authorities.
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2 weeks ago | 
newsdata.com | Linda Dailey Paulson
Ava Community Energy launched a request for proposals for a revolving credit facility agreement that it said will help finance its “operating, programmatic, and longer-term credit needs.” The community choice aggregator on June 4 said it seeks a credit facility with one or more lines of unsecured credit of as much as $300 million to be used for power procurement, letters of credit, meeting cash-collateral requirements and funding other projects, including general working capital for three to...
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3 weeks ago | 
newsdata.com | Linda Dailey Paulson
The U.S. Department of the Interior rolled out emergency permitting measures for geothermal energy projects, making good on President Donald Trump's Jan. 20 "national energy emergency" declaration. Among the first projects to be subject to the accelerated environmental review process are three Ormat Nevada developments, the Bureau of Land Management said in a May 29 news release.
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3 weeks ago | 
newsdata.com | Linda Dailey Paulson
The U.S. Bureau of Land Management on June 2 opened a 30-day scoping period to seek public comment on a proposed solar project in California. The 200-MW Redonda solar project, which is being developed by a Clearway Energy Group subsidiary, would be located on about 887 acres of public lands in Riverside County.
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3 weeks ago | 
newsdata.com | Linda Dailey Paulson
Results from a June 2 regional survey to assess public opinion after the Vistra Moss Landing fires in January and February revealed widespread claims of health impacts and complaints about emergency notifications during the incidents, among other concerns.
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3 weeks ago | 
newsdata.com | Linda Dailey Paulson
The planned return to service of Pacific Gas & Electric's Elkhorn battery energy storage system was halted abruptly following the detection of problems including a cooling leak in one of the 256 Tesla Megapacks used at the Moss Landing facility. However, area officials and residents expected the facility to remain off line until the investigation into January fires at Vistra's 300-MW Moss Landing BESS were completed.
