Gavin Newsom

California leads the way to a greener future Governor Gavin Newsom signed a slate of clean energy bills to install highway solar, increase efficiency, tap into wave energy, and fund transportation for the next decade - an ambitious plan to achieve 100% clean energy.

Axium Infrastructure as well as Canadian Solar subsidiaries Recurrent Energy and also CSI Energy Storage today announced that Crimson Storage, a 350-MW/1,400- MWh standalone energy storage project, is currently in operation and providing flexible capacity to the California grid.

Rallies are set to be kept in San Francisco and also Los Angeles as the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) meets to discuss controversial net metering proposals for the state.

The California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) has actually made a decision to forever postpone its decision on controversial adjustments to the state's net metering laws, according to reports and a Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA) statement.

Proposed net metering (NEM) rules in California that would certainly add a US$ 8/kW per month grid access fee for domestic solar systems have actually been described as "regressive as well as inaccessible with reality" by a NEM policy expert.

California Governor Gavin Newsom signed into law last week financial protections for consumer investments in rooftop solar energy. The law, AB 1208 authored by Assemblymember Phil Ting (D-San Francisco), extends a prohibition on cities and counties taxing the energy generated by rooftop solar panels for use by homeowners and businesses.