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Newsom strikes down bill to help reduce electric demand despite unanimous approval

Gov. Newsom said the bill would not have improved electric grid reliability planning because it did “not align with the California Public Utility Commission’s Resource Adequacy framework.”

California hybrid hydrogen fuel cell and battery storage facility is now online

The Calistoga Resiliency Center offers long-duration emergency microgrid services during service interruption from wildfires and severe weather events with a combination of hydrogen fuel and lithium-ion batteries.

California allows flexible interconnection for distributed solar, storage to avoid grid upgrades

California is the first state to enable distributed solar or storage projects to use flexible interconnection, but the hardware required to flexibly control output may not yet be available.

Why do some cities have higher low-income solar adoption rates than others?

After studying low- and moderate-income solar adoption for years, Lawrence Berkely Laboratory drilled down on three cities and captured why solar equity requires looking beyond numbers alone.

LS Energy Solutions activates 200 MW / 400 MWh energy storage in California

The Big Rock battery energy storage site is comprised of 137 containerized batteries and will help the California grid meet resource adequacy requirements.

State solar policy on the frontlines

For a couple months every two years, every state’s legislative session align, and this year, energy policy dominated many states’ sessions. In regulated energy markets, advocacy groups crusaded against utilities that were relentless to not lose any of their monopoly share to clean energy.

California’s home batteries are replacing gas plants and saving hundreds of millions

The Brattle Group analyzed a gigawatt-hour virtual power plant test that may be the world’s largest as part of its review of California’s distributed peak-shaving program.

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California cuts funding for nation’s largest virtual power plant

With California facing a $12 billion budget shortfall, the state’s lawmakers opted not only against a boost in funding for its flagship virtual power plant program as initially planned, but to not renew its funding all together.

Virtual power plant legislation lay in Gov. Newsom’s hands after sailing through California Assembly

California lawmakers passed two bills that aim to facilitate how the state and its utilities handle virtual power plants.

Enphase introduces commercial-scale solar microinverter with 97.5% efficiency

The inverter is designed for three-phase grid configurations without using external transformers. It contains gallium nitride technology, a first for Enphase’s microinverters.

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