CHICO—Over 50 local solar supporters turned out to the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) meeting in Chico on Thursday, urging commissioners to keep rooftop solar growing and affordable. Solar is currently growing fastest in working and middle class neighborhoods and helping to advance California’s race to clean energy. That progress
SACRAMENTO—Over a thousand solar supporters, representing a diverse coalition from all over California, gathered at the state capitol for an “Everyone Under the Sun Festival and Rally” to celebrate California’s clean energy progress and urge Governor Newsom to keep solar growing for California energy consumers in all communities. Photo by
“Meeting the goal of 90 percent clean energy is impossible without a lot more rooftop solar.” Sacramento, CA—Today Governor Newsom signed a package of legislation aimed at addressing climate change, including advancing California’s clean energy goal to 90% clean electricity by 2035. Bernadette Del Chiaro, executive director of the California
This week’s record-breaking heat wave stressed California’s electric grid but, once again, distributed customer-sited batteries, charged up by solar panels, helped keep the lights on. An analysis by the California Solar and Storage Association (CALSSA) shows that California had more than 80,000 customer-sited batteries connected to the electric grid capable
CALIFORNIA—Solar workers, consumers, clean energy advocates, community leaders, conservationists, and climate activists are rallying at investor-owned utilities across the state over the next two weeks to protest a utility-backed proposal to tax rooftop solar and drastically reduce the credits consumers receive for selling their solar energy back to the grid.
“Don’t Tax the Sun” events are part of the largest ever submission of live and video-recorded public comments in CPUC history CALIFORNIA—Thousands of solar workers, consumers, clean energy advocates,
The California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) announced today it is “reopening the record” on its net energy metering “NEM 3” proceeding, in order to gather information on some specific elements of the decision. The record reopening delays a proposed decision from the CPUC on NEM 3 until July at the
The Construction is Essential Workforce Campaign was conceived in part due to how the industry was impacted by COVID-19. The coronavirus and related economic lockdowns has led to significant changes in the labor market compared to pre-pandemic times. The construction industry, for example, cut nearly 1 million people from its
