Recently in The Grid
The Grid:
On a few calm days this fall, solar has actually outpaced wind in California energy production.
Trade:
Nevada renewables companies complain that without exports to California, their businesses will falter
The Grid:
The Interior Department approves a transmission line across an Area of Critical Environmental Concern.
The Grid:
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) may suspend JPMorgan's rights to participate in the electrical power business unless the company can prove it didn't game the California grid.
The Grid:
LADWP approves environmental documents for a new 75-mile transmission line in the Mojave Desert.
Concentrating Solar:
California's grid operator expands into southwestern Nevada to serve a planned 500-megawatt solar project.
The Grid:
California's grid operators come up with plans to replace power from the San Diego County nuclear power plant
The Grid:
The man who oversees the nation's power grid thinks central renewable energy power stations may be on their way out.
The Grid:
The operators of California's power grid want more leeway to keep people from gaming the market.
The Grid:
The BLM has approved a crucial link in a new substation project coming to the sleepy San Diego County town of Jacumba
The Grid:
The Obama administration has approved a transmission line to connect the Sunrise Powerlink to wind turbines in northern Baja California.
The Grid:
More than 1,000 megawatts of electrical power is coming into the state's transmission grid from solar sources today.
Photovoltaic (PV):
The future of renewable energy might just be encapsulated in the old saying "Small is Beautiful."
The Grid:
Faced with spiking demand, California's grid operators ask Californians to save energy this weekend.
The Grid:
The EPA announces who's generating the most green energy near where they use it, and the list is very Californian.
Technology:
Could California's renewable energy future depend on rust?
The Grid:
A new report calls the California governor's plan for 12 gigawatts of distributed generation by 2020 feasible and affordable.
The Grid:
It's taken a while, but the message is starting to sink in among western states: California's not buying your renewable energy.
The Grid:
Jerry Brown cuts the ribbon on a controversial $1.9 billion power line in Imperial and San Diego Counties.
The Grid:
Only in California? A pioneering experiment in "smart grid" technology... at a maximum-security jail.
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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