Energy

Public Safety

SDG&E Lobbies Regulators To Reject Judges' Decision On 2007 Wildfire Reimbursement

Amita Sharma

Documents show San Diego Gas and Electric representatives met with staffers from each of the five California Public Utilities commissioners this month and bashed the judges' decision that concluded the company should not be allowed to collect $379 million from customers to pay for costs related to the 2007 wildfires.
Environment

Energy, Environment House Subcommittee Hears San Onofre Safety Concerns

Alison St John

San Onofre’s 3.5 million pounds of spent fuel is just a fraction of the radioactive nuclear waste at 17 reactor sites being decommissioned around the country.
Environment

Electricity Alone Powers One Quarter Of US Homes

Ingrid Lobet

Recently inewsource reported that for climate reasons, some environmental groups are starting to advocate for all-electric homes. Those are homes in which all the appliances including heaters, hot water heaters and stoves run on electricity, not natural gas.
Politics

Taxpayer Group Seeks 'Community Choice' Data (Most Is Already Public)

Andrew Bowen

The San Diego County Taxpayers Association wrote city officials a letter seeking the "assumptions and methodology" behind a city-commissioned study on community choice energy. Nearly all that information is in the study itself.
Environment

Solar Market Is Bright, But Looming Tariffs Could Cloud Future

Erik Anderson

The U.S. solar market continues to add capacity and California is leading the way.
Environment

Edison Proceeds With Plans To Bury Nuclear Waste At San Onofre Site

Alison St John

Southern California Edison officials said the company will start burying spent nuclear fuel from the now-closed San Onofre nuclear power plant by the end of this year.
KPBS Midday Edition

Community Choice Aggregation Critics Want San Diego To Slow Down

Maureen Cavanaugh

Michael Lipkin

Critics of San Diego's move toward community choice aggregation have formed a coalition questioning a potential plan to let the city buy power separately from San Diego Gas & Electric.
Environment

Local Businesses, Civic Leaders Form Group In Opposition Of Community Choice Energy

City News Service

A group of San Diego business and civic leaders announced Thursday they have formed a coalition to question a move toward community choice energy, which would allow San Diego's municipal government to acquire power separately from the local utility.
Environment

California Could Set 100% Renewable Energy Goal

Erik Anderson

California lawmakers are running out of time to decide whether the state's energy diet will be greener by 2045.
Environment

California Predicted To Set Power Demand Record

The Associated Press

The operators of California's power grid are forecasting record electrical demand of 50,950 megawatts on Friday as the state swelters in record-breaking heat.