Climate Winners and Losers

As Senator Boxer and the Environment and Public Works committee (sans its Republican members, who have boycotted the session) mark up the Kerry-Boxer cap-and-trade bill, an influential new report describes the impact of carbon pri...

Posted Tuesday, November 3rd, 2009 at 2:16 pm | Filed in: Electric Utilities, Environment, Gas Prices

Schwarzenegger Says Nuclear Power is Not Renewable

On Monday we noted Gov. Schwarzenegger  was reportedly considering allowing power generated at nuclear plants to help meet the renewable power requirements that he established by executive order.  We noted that this could have b...

Posted Thursday, September 17th, 2009 at 10:44 pm | Filed in: Alternatives, Electric Utilities, Electrification, Energy Supply

Renewable Energy Needs a Renewed Electricity Grid

In a further development to California’s push for even more aggressive renewable energy proposals, Governor Schwarzenegger said yesterday that he would veto legislation passed last week that would limit the amount of renewable p...

Posted Wednesday, September 16th, 2009 at 7:46 am | Filed in: Electric Utilities, Renewables

Making Nuclear Power Renewable

California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger is expected to announce this week a requirement that 33 percent of the power sold by California utilities be renewable energy.  (California law already requires that 20 percent of power b...

Posted Monday, September 14th, 2009 at 6:45 am | Filed in: Alternatives, Electric Utilities, Energy Supply, Environment

Waxman-Markey is pro-coal???

While you won't hear many mining companies or coal-burning utilities express support for the proposition that the pending Waxman-Markey CLIMATE CHANGE and energy bill (it works best if you shout climate change and whisper energy -...

Posted Thursday, July 30th, 2009 at 6:58 am | Filed in: Electric Utilities, Energy Supply, Environment, Legislation, Natural Gas

Managing Peak Demand

While everyone is scratching their heads to figure out the big question of the century - how to be more sustainable consumers of energy - some of us have not forgotten the simple adjustments that will benefit everyone.  Peak rewa...

Posted Tuesday, July 28th, 2009 at 10:11 am | Filed in: Electric Utilities, Energy Demand