I’m back after a few weeks on parental leave with my first child. Time passes strangely. It feels like I was away for both a much shorter time and a much longer time than that, and now the days and nights blend together in a semi-caffeinated stew. I’m
If not now, when Sacramento’s report of the year dropped last week, and it’s a doozy. The California Earthquake Authority’s 128-page examination of wildfire spending, ordered up in last year’s Senate Bill 254, delivers an unusually candid assessment of what climate change is costing anyone who
Approving the transition Remarkably, California has added enough clean energy to its grid in each of the last two years to meet the breakneck pace called for in its climate plans. Not so for transmission. The middle child of California’s clean energy transition hasn’t received the same attention
Fees on fire Solar paired with storage is the cheapest, fastest energy you can build today, thanks in part to California’s pioneering support of the technology that goes back two decades. But as the state embraces an abundance agenda to speed housing and clean energy buildouts, affordability needs to
Welcome to BACAville We could soon find out how Californians really feel about CEQA. Voters are on track to consider a CalChamber-backed ballot measure in November that aims to modernize the 55-year-old California Environmental Quality Act to speed up the construction of essential housing, clean energy, transportation, water infrastructure and
As we outlined here last month, California’s clean energy future runs through the San Joaquin Valley, where state agencies anticipate large-scale solar and storage projects existing in relative harmony alongside working agricultural land. But now there’s a new competitor on the scene. The Department of Fish and Wildlife
One of the energy policy “planes” that landed in the final days of last year’s legislative session had in its cargo hold a rough draft of a plan that aims to save billions of dollars on new power lines. The proposal in Senate Bill 254 seeks to save money
Welcome to The Current, an American Clean Power-California newsletter. Our goal is to deliver an accessible industry perspective on clean energy legislation, regulation and happenings in California every other Wednesday. I'm Wes Venteicher, ACP-CA's communications director based in Sacramento. If you like what you see here,
Welcome to The Current, a new newsletter from American Clean Power-California. Our goal is to deliver an accessible industry perspective on clean energy legislation, regulation and happenings in California every other Wednesday, starting with this edition. I'm Wes Venteicher, ACP-CA's communications director based in Sacramento. If