Bloomberg News/businessweek.com | By Chris Martin, Mark Chediak, and Ken Wells | Link to article There are 3,200 utilities that make up the U.S. electrical grid, the largest machine in the world. These power companies sell $400 billion worth of electricity a year, mostly derived from burning fossil fuels in centralized stations and distributed over […]
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California cannot afford a Teapot Dome
August 12, 2013
SFGate.com/SF Chronicle | By Fran Pavley | Link to article In 1922, U.S. Interior Secretary Albert Fall secretly gave away the rights to oil fields in Elk Hills, just west of Bakersfield, and Teapot Dome, Wyo., for a pittance. After a series of congressional hearings revealed that these natural resources had been leased at millions […]
Massive Solar Plant A Stepping Stone For Future Projects
August 1, 2013
KQED Morning Edition | KQED report The largest solar power plant of its kind is about to turn on in California’s Mojave Desert. The Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System will power about 140,000 homes and will be a boon to the state’s renewable energy goals, but it was no slam dunk. Now, California is trying […]
Solar power plant tours in Nevada, California enlighten Interior Secretary Sally Jewell
July 3, 2013
Las Vegas Review-Journal | By Henry Brean | Link to article Calling them trailblazers in an industry she expects to grow and improve, Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell on Monday applauded the developers of two very different solar energy projects built with federal help on public land near Primm. “It’s paving the way for […]
California Grid Operator Asks Geothermal to Help ‘Feed the Duck’
June 28, 2013
Greentech Media | By Herman K. Trabish | Link to article By 2015, the need for grid support will double. California’s 33-percent-renewables-by-2020 mandate is becoming a reality, and the state’s electricity system operator wants the geothermal industry to help keep the grid stable as more generation comes from variable resources. By 2020, due largely to […]
Fact Sheet: President Obama’s Climate Action Plan
June 25, 2013
The White House | Office of the Press SecretaryComplete release President Obama’s Plan to Cut Carbon Pollution Taking Action for Our Kids We have a moral obligation to leave our children a planet that’s not polluted or damaged, and by taking an all- of-the-above approach to develop homegrown energy and steady, responsible steps to cut […]
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 […]
