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How can you safeguard homes in the wild?

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

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.

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...

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.

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.

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.

Electric vehicle charging / Automotive Rhythms / CC BY-NC-ND 2.0

Research on California's Low Carbon Fuel Standard program suggests the LCFS program design of capacity-based credits has the potential to increase EV deployment, but that some unanswered questions need to be addressed before the point-of-sale rebate program can do the same.

Vastly higher clean energy targets are essential to empower the international community to make the leap to a sustainable future, according to Richard Heinberg, coauthor of “Our Renewable Future: Laying the Path for One Hundred Percent Clean Energy.” In this interview, he delves into the practical challenges involved in the...

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Unsurance: California Homeowners and Utilities Face Off With Fire

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

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

Vivint Solar: Power Shutoff Disruption ‘Resets’ California’s Residential Market

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

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

Is California’s Low Carbon Fuel Standard Incentivizing Electric Vehicle Deployment?

What Will It Take to Catalyze the Energy Transition?