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Community choice aggregators were supposed to provide cheaper electricity, but some now charge more than large utility companies.

The California Public Utilities Commission vote against rooftop solar favors utilities over consumers and derails efforts to meet the state’s climate change goals.

Utility debt payment plans place unreasonable burdens on low-income residents, and debt forgiveness doesn’t address the problem; electrification does.

New bill would limit sky-high fees that enrich utilities at the expense of ratepayers, but legislators may need a push.

California has no time to spare in developing new, clean energy resources before its last nuclear power plant closes in 2024-25.

“Everything that should be up is up and everything that should be down is down,” Gov. Gavin Newsom said in January when lifting California’s regional stay-at-home order. Today, that statement holds true for many aspects of California’s pandemic response — vaccinations are up, infections are down, hospitalizations are down — but rings hollow when it […]

Modernizing the state’s net metering program has to do with the fact that non-solar customers pay more to subsidize solar customers.

California utilities submitted proposals to slow the growth of solar energy by charging households $78 per month to have solar on their roof.

Looking past COVID-19 and recession, California still faces the threat of prolonged drought.

The problems keep racking up for California’s vaccine rollout. State Epidemiologist Dr. Erica Pan on Sunday recommended providers stop administering doses from a specific batch of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine following “a higher-than-usual number” of possibly severe allergic reactions at a mass vaccination site in San Diego. Although fewer than 10 people appeared to experience […]