California

Solar Power Plant

EDF Sells 100MW California Sun

EDF Renewables North America is to supply 100MW of electricity from the Maverick 6 solar farm in California to community energy aggregator CleanPowerSF under a …

Electric Vehicle Charging

2020 Honda Clarity Fuel Cell Upgraded to Operate Better in Cold Temperatures

Honda has announced minor changes to its 2020 Honda Clarity Fuel Cell. The vehicle, which is currently exclusive to California markets in the US, will now opera…

Gas turbine engine

Capstone Turbine Model C200 And C1000 Systems Wins Australian Certification

“Certification to the Australian standard is a significant accomplishment for our organization as the Australian certification comes on the heels of certificat…

Will the Midwest Take Advantage of the Emerging Hydrogen Economy?

California is a leader in the use of hydrogen fuel cells, but experts say they’re also well suited for the Midwest.

Diversify Power Sources to Avoid a Repeat of Blackouts

If states want to avoid costly electricity failures such as the blackouts that roiled California recently, they can improve their odds by diversifying power sou…

Seismic Upgrades Move Forward at B.F. Sisk Dam

A billion-dollar seimic upgrade project at B.F. Sisk Dam and San Luis Reservoir in California is to move forward, the US Bureau of Reclamation (USBR) and the Ca…

Reclamation, DWR Move Forward with Seismic Upgrades at B.F. Sisk Dam

The U.S. Department of Interior’s Bureau of Reclamation and the California Department of Water Resources are moving forward on an estimated billion-dollar seis…

Microgrid

California’s Culver City Mulls 3 Microgrid Options, May Issue RFP

Roughly a year after commissioning a feasibility study, Culver City, Calif., is considering issuing a request for proposals (RFP) to move forward with a municip…

New Technology

New Study Looks to Biological Enzymes as Source of Hydrogen Fuel

Research from the University of Illinois and the University of California, Davis has chemists one step closer to recreating nature's most efficient machinery fo…

Distributed Solar

An Inside Look at a Groundbreaking Solar-Storage Procurement in California

A group of CCAs are looking to aggregate 30 megawatts of distributed energy resources. Here are the details.

Energy Storage Project

Azelio And Biodico Partner on Thermal Energy Storage Project

Swedish thermal energy storage solutions provider Azelio has teamed up with US-based Biodico to develop 120MW in thermal energy storage projects in Atascadero, …

Microgrid

After PG&E Blackout, California Homeowners Shift to Solar and Batteries

The Northern California blackouts this month, coming after years of increasingly destructive wildfires, showed millions of people how fragile their power grid c…

Ormat Targets Addition of Around 100 MW in Geothermal Capacity by End of 2021

11 Nov 2019With 6 geothermal projects, Ormat Technologies is planning to add around 100 MW in geothermal power generation capacity in Nevada, California and Gua…

Electric Car

UCLA Health Center Receives Electric Winnebago as Mobile Instrument Lab

Winnebago Industries, Inc. delivered the first all-electric mobile surgical instrument lab (eMSIL) to University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) Health Cent…

Solar Power Plant

IEnova Switches on 41-MW PV Plant in Mexico

November 14 - Mexican power and gas utility Infraestructura Energetica Nova SAB de CV (IEnova) announced on Wednesday it has put online a 41-MW photovoltaic (PV…