California

A dozen U.S. utilities have targeted at least 80% carbon-free generation by 2030. The Smart Electric Power Alliance hopes that their strategies to get there will influence other utilities to accelerate their own clean energy commitments.

The facility, located in California, will have more than 100,000 square feet of manufacturing space and is expected to come into operation in Q1 2024.

Also on the rise: Lithium-ion battery fire in California energy storage facility. Spotted on the show floor at RE+ 2023. And more.

SB 49 is now pending approval from Governor Gavin Newsom.

Homes and businesses within a quarter mile of the Valley Center Energy Storage Facility were evacuated and a shelter-in-place order was in effect for anyone a half mile from the site. Owner, Terra-Gen, issued a statement saying that the facility’s design systems are keeping the incident contained.

Also on the rise: Ohm Analytics details a complex distributed solar market. LS Energy Solutions to construct large-scale energy storage to serve CAISO market. And more.

The 200 MW/400MWh Big Rock project, expected to be online in the second half of 2024, is designed to bring stabililty to the Southern California grid.

Third-party ownership and California are fueling residential solar growth, as interconnection and the solar coaster are slowing larger projects.

Paired Power partnered with Monarch Power to deliver the emissions-free off-grid solution.

The company released a hail stow-ready rack, a terrain following tracker and an irradiance-tracking yield optimizer.