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A new report found that California will need to build renewable generation and storage resources at a record pace to provide 100% clean energy by 2045. | © RTO Insider
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CAISO issued a draft final proposal for its summer readiness market enhancements initiative just three weeks after presenting a straw proposal. | Shutterstock
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The California PUC approved a massive increase to its resource-needs projections, which CAISO will use in its transmission planning process for 2021/22. | © RTO Insider
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Eight of California’s community choice aggregators said they will join forces to create one of the state’s largest procurement entities. | Silicon Valley Clean Energy
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The CAISO Board of Governors approved a tribal entity as a participating transmission owner for the first time, welcoming the Morongo Band of Mission Indians. | Morongo Band
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CAISO and its sister state agencies released a final analysis of the mid-August blackouts and steps they are taking to prevent capacity shortfalls this summer and beyond. | Ready.gov
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FERC approved a CAISO plan meant to allow co-located resources to connect to the grid more quickly and seamlessly in the coming months. | 174 Power Global
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California must build renewables and storage at an unprecedented pace to reach its goal of supplying 100% zero-carbon energy to retail customers by 2045. | U.S. Interior Department
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Amid another heat wave and raging wildfires, CAISO called for massive conservation efforts and aid from neighboring utilities but averted blackouts.
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The CAISO Board of Governors adopted the first of two proposals intended to allow co-located and hybrid resources to connect to the grid more seamlessly. | 174 Power Global
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California is moving quickly to adopt microgrids to store wind and solar energy and to provide electricity during public safety power shutoffs in wildfire season. | Stone Edge Farm
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With less than a month to go before a July 29 deadline for completing tariff changes, CAISO presented the Western Energy Imbalance Market’s Governing Body its plan for accommodating hybrid generation and storage resources. | © RTO Insider
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California renewable energy prices fell to record lows in 2019, driven by the proliferation and falling costs of wind and solar power, the PUC said in its annual report to the State Legislature. | © RTO Insider
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The fossil fuel industry will try to roll back electric-vehicle mandates in response to the drop in oil demand from the coronavirus pandemic, a speaker told a California Energy Commission webinar Tuesday. | Proterra
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The California PUC approved historic increases in the state’s clean energy targets, calling for almost 25 GW of renewable energy and storage by 2030.
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The California Energy Commission allowed the Sacramento Municipal Utility District to sell solar power to homeowners as an alternative to requiring rooftop solar panels on all new homes. | © RTO Insider
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Members of the California PUC met in Bakersfield, a stronghold of conservative interior California, and heard a much different kind of public comment than they’re used to in San Francisco.
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CAISO will have its work cut out for it next year, with more than a dozen major policy initiatives moving forward as well as efforts to head off predicted electricity shortfalls starting in summer 2021. | © RTO Insider
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A panel of analysts at a renewable energy conference warned that PG&E could still reject its renewable power purchase agreements in bankruptcy despite assurances that it will honor those contracts. | © RTO Insider
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The often tense relationship between California and other Western states occupied much of this year’s Transmission Summit West. | © RTO Insider
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