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California regulators may be close to revealing how they plan to shape the state’s solar marketplace. -
State regulators are taking aim at polluting household appliances as they work to comply with federal clean air standards. -
A new paper out of UC San Diego finds that political friction between the U.S. and China could hurt joint work on critical green technologies. -
Another flex alert was issued for Thursday from 3 p.m. to 10 p.m. as temperatures are expected to spike again. -
The surge in temperature has left several San Diego County school districts scrambling to install portable AC units. -
California’s water use dropped more than 10.4% in July compared with two years ago as the most populous state struggles with a years-long drought. -
With electricity demand reaching record levels due to a drawn-out heat wave, Southern California and the whole state avoided rolling power blackouts as the manager of the power grid called for maximum conservation efforts by residents. -
City officials said the people were blocking a sidewalk that had to be cleaned to prevent disease. -
Why hasn’t California’s power grid been able to keep up with energy demand during the heatwave without flex alerts? -
According to Cal-ISO, electrical demand on Thursday topped out at 47,357 megawatts, the highest figure since September 2017. The agency projected that demand could exceed that number on Sunday, Monday and Tuesday, with Tuesday's forecast at 49,000 megawatts.
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