california solar

CALSSA executive director Bernadette Del Chiaro says a downward trend will be the best description of the California market this year without government intervention.

The solar industry in California “has experienced devastating results in the form of business closures and depression-level layoffs”.

Solar became California’s biggest non-fossil fuel source of electricity sales in 2021, according to the latest data from the California Energy Commission.

California Independent System Operator (CAISO) has approved a transmission plan consisting of 45 projects for system expansion and upgrades with a cost of US$7.3 billion, including a total of more than 17GW of solar generation.

The plan also outlined some transmission projects to integrate the generation and storage resources, with the estimated cost of up to US$2.3 billion.

Tesla’s Solar Roof technology has fallen short of the company’s deployment targets by some distance, according to a new report from energy analysts Wood Mackenzie.

The California Public Utilities Commission’s (CPUC) most recent net energy metering (NEM) proposal is too extreme and will discourage homeowners from adopting residential solar, according to Bernadette Del Chiaro, executive director of clean energy business group the California Solar and Storage Association (CALSSA).

California Governor Gavin Newsom has signed a proposed community solar programme into law that will help low income communities benefit more from solar PV.

A group of 26 California Congress Members have written to the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) urging it to rethink its contentious net metering changes for the state and demanding a “dramatically revised policy”.

The California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) has unanimously approved plans to add more than 25.5GW of renewables and 15GW of storage in the state by 2032 at a cost of US$49 billion.