December 2012 Archives
Concentrating Solar:
Riverside County has significant concerns over how BrightSource Energy's 500-megawatt solar thermal plant would affect the county's wildlife, historic sites, and public health and welfare.
Science:
A prominent California ratepayer advocacy organization has slammed an agreement between the state's investor-owned utilities and the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory to conduct studies into new renewable grid management techniques.
Photovoltaic (PV):
Another industrial solar plant on public lands gets closer to approval in the California Desert.
Solar:
The state just came close to a solar output recrd set in August -- and it's the middle of winter.
Utilities:
L.A. City Council member Jan Perry is calling for DWP to make a solar incentive program more democratic.
Conservation:
One of the most energy-intensive things we encounter in a typical day is the common aluminum can.
Photovoltaic (PV):
Within ten years, power from solar panels on your roof will be as inexpensive as power from local electric companies across the country. And for southern Californians, that day will be here quite a bit sooner.
Utilities:
A leading California solar advocacy group is calling utility allegations that rooftop solar panel owners cost other ratepayers money "largely horsemalarkey."
DRECP:
A preview of the Desert Renewable Energy Conservation Plan is out, and like everything about the California Desert, its scale is huge.
Utilities:
California utilities raise the alarm about costs to ratepayers of rooftop solar... but let's not mention the billions in transmission lines those solar installations might save us.
News and analysis about renewable energy in California. Blog host Chris Clarke is an environmental writer of two decades standing. He currently lives in Joshua Tree and can be contacted at: rewire@kcet.org.
- Wind Power
- PV and Solar Thermal
- Energy Return on Energy Invested (EROEI)
- Watts and Watt-Hours, Kilo and Mega
- 'Enough To Power X Thousand Homes'
- The Grid
- Distributed Generation
- Conservation and 'Negawatts'
- Grid Storage
- PACE Loans, Feed In Tariffs and Net Metering
- Base Load and Peaking Power
- Capacity Factor
- Renewable Portfolio Standards
- Biomass
- Transportation and Renewable Energy
- Geothermal
