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How can you safeguard homes in the wild?

Unsurance: California Homeowners and Utilities Face Off With Fire

Kevin Cellucci
January 04, 2021
  • Topics:
  • Climate Resilience
  • Rural Programs
Bring in the ethicists, actuaries and silviculturists to figure out how to insure homeowners who buy lots at the edge of wilderness that gets more combustible each year. Then, to really complicate things, reckon with the costs to insure utilities in the same territory. In California, nobody from the insurers...
Transmission lines

Chris Hunkeler / CC BY-SA 2.0

Search and Deploy: Google's Team Strategy for Fossil-Free Electricity

Pari Kasotia
December 22, 2020
  • Topics:
  • Economic Opportunity
  • Research
  • Solar Finance
In 2020, absolute decarbonization pledges mark software companies' elite rank as surely as triple-digit IPO share prices did in 1999. But Microsoft, Apple, Amazon and Google all set distinct strategies for keeping their promises. Google's parent company, through the words of its CEO and the analysis of those who follow...
How SunZia closes in on California

Drawing a line in the sand, SunZia worked for 14 years on its transmission progress. 

A Seriously Long-Term Investment: Inside SunZia's Transmission Adventure

Charlie Markowitz
December 08, 2020
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When planning to decarbonize the grid, many analysts see transmission lines as analogous to "political will." It's necessary and it's rarely possible to summon it from scratch. In the Southwest, though, a private enterprise has pushed forward on work to deliver renewable power from a windy swath of New Mexico...
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Commentary

2020 Outlook: Utilities Will Be Pushed to Further Embrace Distributed Energy Resources

January 24, 2020
Source: Utility Dive
Now, in states from New York to California, the focus of the conversation has moved from: How can utilities weather the shift toward distributed energy without suffering big losses? to: How can utilities, their customers and the electric grid as a whole best harness the benefits of distributed energy resources?
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External News

An Inside Look at a Groundbreaking Solar-Storage Procurement in California

December 02, 2019
Source: Greentech Media
Early this month, three community-choice aggregators and one municipal utility serving much of California’s San Francisco Bay Area launched a 30-megawatt distributed energy storage-plus-solar solicitation. It breaks ground on multiple fronts.
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Vivint Solar: Power Shutoff Disruption ‘Resets’ California’s Residential Market

November 21, 2019
Source: Greentech Media
Though Vivint sales representatives knock on “millions of doors a year,” CEO David Bywater said on the company’s Q3 earnings call that recent power outages have pushed many potential customers to reconsider renewables and storage.
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Commentary

The Radical Reform Necessary to Prepare California’s Power System for the 21st Century

November 21, 2019
Source: Vox
In a nutshell, the state needs utilities that partner with communities to maximize local resilience and self-sufficiency, and whose financial fortunes are tied to their performance in that pursuit.
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External News

Electric Utilities Can’t Blame Wildfires Solely on Climate, Experts Say

October 31, 2019
Source: Scientific American
Bill Johnson is a utility executive, not a climate scientist. That didn’t stop the Pacific Gas and Electric Co. (PG&E) CEO from wading into California’s complex climate conditions. Noting that Northern California’s wildfire risk has grown exponentially in recent years, Johnson placed much of the blame on climate change, not PG&E’s compromised electricity grid.

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