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Though the Obama administration has recently renewed its commitment to approve more wind facilities on public lands as part of the Climate Action Plan it released this week, a new study indicates that wind development in California has far fewer enviro...
It took him awhile to get to the point, showing how tentative his proposals are, how carefully couched his prescriptions.
The project, which was four years in the making, was officially completed earlier this month -- slashing carbon emissions by 47,583 metric tons.
With the cancellation of one of the biggest solar projects proposed for the California desert, the utility-scale solar boom of 2009 continues to falter. And analysts deep in the energy industry are taking notice.
A 450-megawatt solar project may break ground as early as next year at Edwards Air Force Base in the western Mojave Desert. The project, now undergoing environmental review, would sell power to utilities outside the military base.
His long-awaited Climate Action Plan contains some overdue good ideas -- and some outdated bad ones.
Friday is the first day of summer, and summer is when Californians tend to use the most energy to keep those air conditioners chugging along. With that in mind, the California Energy Commission is offering a few handy tips for those of us looking to tr...
If this works out in the real world, say goodbye to electric car "range anxiety." At an event in Hawthorne on Thursday night, Tesla Motors founder Elon Musk demonstrated a way his company's Model S electric cars can be "recharged" in less than half the...
L.A.'s utility program for small-scale solar within city limits has taken some heat for setting its sights too low, but one expert with impeccable credentials has just given the program his seal of approval.
The developer of a huge proposed solar power project that was once slated to cover 12.5 square miles of still-intact desert habitat has walked away from the idea, according to documents released by the California Energy Commission.
Though the general consensus seems to be that southern California will get through the summer just fine without the permanently closed San Onofre nuclear power plant, officials at San Diego Gas & Electric (SDG&E) are pushing to make up what they say ma...
In the first three months of 2013 almost a fifth of the solar installed in the state was put in without subsidies. As prices continue to fall and increasing costs of fossil fuels make solar ever more attractive, has California reached a solar tipping p...