Chris Clarke
Chris Clarke was KCET's Environment Editor until July 2017. He is a veteran environmental journalist and natural history writer. He lives in Joshua Tree.
The Los Angeles City Council votes in favor of a rate hike for the L.A. Department of Water and Power.
The political stands taken by candidates in the supervisor's race in San Bernardino are hard to unravel.
You'll be able to fast-charge your Tesla Model S for free, for life, using solar electricity, at any of the network of Supercharger stations the company is building across the country. If, that is, you ever get your hands on one of the cars.
It turns out Americans pay more for renewable energy per kilowatt-hour than Germans do, and yet Germany's solar industry is growing by leaps and bounds compared to ours.
Joshua trees may denote hot deserts in many minds, but the place they live in gets pretty cold as well.
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.
SCE hooks up to Oregon's largest wind facility.
In August, Germany installed 320 megawatts of rooftop solar -- about a quarter of California's total capacity.
The state's third-largest public utility expects to surpass California's renewable power requirements.
PG&E's cumbersome solar grid hookup process is dealing a serious financial blow to a school district in a small Mendocino County town.
LADWP approves environmental documents for a new 75-mile transmission line in the Mojave Desert.
Developers of a large photovoltaic array on former farmland get good news from their bank.