California’s grid reliability and premier virtual power plant (VPP) program are in limbo as the state faces a $12 billion budget shortfall and has just weeks until its legislative session comes to ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. California and nearly two dozen states sued the Trump administration over its cancellation of a $7-billion solar ...

The California Energy Commission has unveiled a new $55 million incentive program to expand public electric vehicle fast charging throughout the state. The ‘Fast Charge California Project,’ part of ...

The Golden State has an ambitious goal of getting to 100 percent zero-carbon electricity sales by 2045. Under the best ...

Over the weekend, lawmakers in Sacramento passed a suite of energy-related bills pushed by Gov. Gavin Newsom that came forward in the final days of the California legislative session. The measures ...

WASHINGTON D.C. (KEYT) – California Senators Alex Padilla and Adam Schiff sent a letter Thursday to the Secretary of Energy opposing the selective cancellation of billions in federal funds for ...

As the federal government turns its back on the clean energy transition, gutting decades of progress with the passage of the Trump ugly budget bill, California now stands alone at a critical ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. California wants biomass markets to fund costly forest thinning, and startups — many based in the state — believe ...

Press releases are posted on Independent.com as a free community service. OAKLAND — California Attorney General Rob Bonta secured a major victory which completely halted the Trump administration’s ...

Cantua Creek, a tiny agricultural town, sits near the planned site of the Darden Clean Energy Project in western Fresno County. (Tomas Ovalle / For The Times) The fallowed farmland — too dry, salty ...

Beysi Vazquez tends to thousands of basil, dill, mint and other herbs in a large sprawling nursery business in California’s Coachella Valley, just north of the Salton Sea. She works long shifts, in ...