Recently in Government
Government:
Green power advocates say a recent bill is an attack on community-based renewable energy.
Government:
The California Legislature decides not to pass two proposed clean energy bills.
Photovoltaic (PV):
California utilities kill a bill that would have increased access to solar power.
Solar:
There's plenty of room for argument over whether Italy or California has the better food and wine, but when it comes to solar power, Italy wins hands down.
Government:
Three slightly wonky bills passed the California legislature this week that will make it easier to switch to solar.
Government:
House Resolution 762 exhorts communities to develop distributed generation -- and it was written by a Tea Party Republican.
Government:
A federal subsidy for utility-scale wind power may yet be renewed for another year.
Government:
Two more California solar projects get fast-tracked by the Obama administration.
Government:
Defense and Interior will be working together to develop renewable energy on and near military bases.
Solar PEIS:
Environmentalist response to the Obama administration's public lands solar plan has been, like the proposed Solar Energy Zones, all over the map.
Utilities:
California's three largest utilities have reached an important renewable energy target.
Government:
A new bill would make renewables permitting more like public land oil and gas lease sales.
Solar PEIS:
The Interior Department releases its long-awaited blueprint for solar development on 20 million acres of public land in the Western U.S.
Solar:
A new study says tax credits given to encourage solar installations actually make the federal government money.
Government:
JPMorgan Chase's alleged gaming of California's power markets is just another chapter in the old Enron saga.
Policy:
Admitting the possibility of climate change is enough to get you drummed out of the GOP these days, but Reagan's former Secretary of State George Shultz is taking it a lot further.
Government:
One of green energy's strongest allies in Sacramento says that old-school utilities are gearing up to fight renewables.
Government:
As the Presidential election campaign heats up, backers of Republican Mitt Romney are working to counter criticisms of their candidate's ties to Bain Capital and its alleged outsourcing of American jobs.
Transportation:
The fight over renewable electrical power policy is spreading to the issue of renewable fuels for transportation as well.
Hydroelectric:
Restrictions on the relicensing of dams, which provide power, is coming to a head.
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.
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