Articles from the "CalWEA in the Media" category.
If California kills the Fountain Wind Project, sited on private, active timberland next to a successful 15-year-old wind project, it will chill investment in the wind projects that California needs to meet the CPUC's 9-GW in-state wind target. Worse, the Energy Commission staff's reasoning could kill any renewable energy project.
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.
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.
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 CalWEA's editorial published in California Energy Markets.
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. CalWEA 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.”
Another good article on the Biden Admin.'s misguided tanking of amendments to the misguided Desert Renewable Energy Conservation Plan.