What’s The Impact Of Electric Cars In Southern California?
One of California’s largest utilities releases information on the habits of its plug-in electric vehicle customers, giving interesting insights.
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The Smart Meter-Home Security Connection
Greentech Media reports on how Southern California Edison and ADT Pulse will offer customers real-time smart meter data. Will customers sign up?
Smart-Meter-to-Home Retail Sales Go Live In SoCal
Greentech Media reports on a new program in Southern California that could push the smart-meter-to-home-energy-device connection into the consumer marketplace in a big new way.
BrightSource Eyes More Power Towers With Cash Infusion
Concentrating solar might be struggling, but BrightSource Energy just raised $80 million in equity investment, and won regulator approval for two (of five) power purchase deals.
California Hits 20% Renewables; Next Stop, 25% In 2016
With a big surge last year, California’s investor-owned utilities hit a 20 percent renewable portfolio standard target. Ultimately, they need to be at 33 percent by 2020.
Smart Meter Opt Out Options Grow In California
Californians with two more major utilities as their power providers now have the option to opt out of smart meters if they so choose as the CPUC rules analog meters must be allowed as a choice.
NYC Cleantech Startup A Big Deal In California
For the longest time it has been playing catch-up, but New York City might at last be taking a forward role in the development of green technology.
Solar Power Puts A Little Green In Kleenex
Prologis and Southern California Edison expand a 100-kilowatt solar system at a Kimberly-Clark distribution center to a giant 4.9-megawatt array.
Molten-Salt Storage Coming To California
BrightSource Energy says it will build three big solar thermal power plants with energy-storage capability, with the power going to Southern California Edison.
Solar Plant Sprouts At Desert Air Force Base
Edwards Air Force Base in California’s Antelope Valley is partnering with Borrega Solar to install three 1-megawatt solar farms to offset its utility bills.
Smart Meters Come To Orange County
California utility company SCE is on-track to installing five million smart meters in the state, recently rolling out the technology in Orange County.