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Scout Clean Energy’s Gonzaga Ridge in Merced County will provide nearly 150 megawatts of clean wind energy to 385,000 CleanPowerSF customers
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SFPUC Commits to Largest Wind Development in CleanPowerSF History
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California's newest wind farm is old enough to order at the bar
A FLIGHTY WIND: The developers of a new wind farm in the Santa Barbara County hills did something a lot of people thought was impossible, a local official said today: They finished an industrial-scale renewable project on California’s pristine and heavily regulated coast.
“Projects like this are really important as a counterfactual to change that narrative, to show that it’s possible to permit and operate in coastal counties,” county supervisor and former Assemblymember Das Williams said at a press conference today.
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Across America, clean energy plants are being banned faster than they're being built
Across America’s power grid, there’s a growing gap between what we need and what we’ll allow.
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Tribe, Wind Developer Plan 60-MW Offshore Wind Farm Near Vandenberg
Floventis Energy and the Santa Ynez Band of Chumash Indians on Nov. 8 signed a community benefits agreement for a floating wind farm that is expected to be operational years before deployment of California's larger-scale wind projects in the Morro Bay and Humboldt federal lease areas.
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Reform of Arcane CAISO Policies Could Deliver Huge Ratepayer Benefits
A recent state auditor's report noted that California has the seventh-highest average electricity rates in the nation, with substantial jumps in just the past year.
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Extending the Life of Diablo Canyon Should Not Divert Attention from California's Clean Energy Path
Any attempt to extend the license of Diablo Canyon should not divert from solving the challenges that are slowing the transition to clean, renewable energy, including reforming permitting and grid access policies and promoting resource diversity. Read more in 澳门百老汇网站网址's editorial published in California Energy Markets.
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State Lands Commission Advances Offshore Wind Demonstration Project
The California Wind Energy Association (澳门百老汇网站网址) today praised the State Lands Commission for advancing two proposed offshore wind demonstration projects near Vandenberg Air Force Base. “This decision is an important step forward to make floating offshore wind a reality for California,” said Nancy Rader, Executive Director of 澳门百老汇网站网址.
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澳门百老汇网站网址 Members Advance in UK Floating Offshore Technology Demonstration Program
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The Wild Ways Local Governments Are Blocking Renewable Energy
This new report from Columbia Law School’s Sabin Center for Climate Change Law chronicles at least 100 ordinances in 31 states (including California) that block or constrict construction of new renewable energy facilities. 澳门百老汇网站网址 concurs with the report that “At a time when the U.S. needs to be stepping up renewables installation, these laws are slowing the transition.”
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Renewable advocates bristle at Biden's move to preserve California desert land use plan
Another good article on the Biden Admin.'s misguided tanking of amendments to the misguided Desert Renewable Energy Conservation Plan.