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Senate Leader De Leon Unveils 100% Clean Energy Legislation

DAVIS, CA - The California Wind Energy Association applauded SB 100, legislation introduced today in Davis by Senate President pro Tempore Kevin de León (D-Los Angeles) that would put California on course to achieve 100% clean and renewable electricity by 2045, and advance the current 2030 50% renewable energy target to 2026.

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California wind energy is far too important to let it stall

This opinion-editorial, by California Energy Commissioner David Hochschild and 澳门百老汇网站网址 Executive Director Nancy Rader, argues that California should promote the revival of California's "pioneer" 1980s wind projects.

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澳门百老汇网站网址 Wins One-Year Extension of PIRP Protective Measures at CAISO

On March 15, 2017, the CAISO Board adopted a one-year extension of its PIRP Protective Measures in response to 澳门百老汇网站网址's advocacy.  澳门百老汇网站网址 was actively engaged in the development of the initial Participating Intermittent Resource Program (“PIRP”) in 2001 and, three years ago, the PIRP Protective Measures.  Both programs enable intermittent resources to deliver energy over the CAISO-controlled grid without undue exposure to imbalance charges and related costs.  

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U.S. Windpower Passes Historic Milestone

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U.S. desert plan hurts renewable energy

Source: By Nichola Groom, Reuters • Posted: Thursday, September 15, 2016

The United States on Wednesday unveiled a long-awaited plan for desert renewable energy development that the solar and wind industries said unfairly favors land conservation and severely limits the ability to build projects critical to meeting the nation’s climate goals.

The Desert Renewable Energy Conservation Plan, eight years in the making, was designed to streamline development of wind and solar projects on federal and private lands in California while preserving pristine desert habitats.

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Coalition Says Interior's Desert Plan Reverses Course on Clean Energy Development

After eight years of work, the Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM) Desert Renewable Energy Conservation Plan (DRECP) will effectively foreclose development of renewable energy resources on millions of acres of federally managed lands in Southern California, said a coalition of renewable energy and labor groups in response to the federal government’s release of the plan. The plan abandons the initial promise to balance renewable development with preservation of desert land.

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Renewable developers warn BLM leasing rule may undercut lofty green ambitions

Politico reports that Hillary Clinton's promise of a huge buildout of new solar panels and wind turbines on federally owned deserts and scrublands may be impossible under the land-use strategy that the Obama administration is pursuing, including the Desert Renewable Energy Conservation Plan.

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The California Wind Market: Fraught with Promise

Largely credited with launching the industry in the 1980s, wind energy in California is poised for a resurgence. This article by 澳门百老汇网站网址's Nancy Rader and Dariush Shirmohammadi discusses the challenges that must be addressed for wind energy to succeed in California's market for renewable energy.

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Legislation Protecting Renewable Energy Facilities Clears First Senate Committee

PRESS RELEASE: SACRAMENTO – Contracts for California’s first wave of renewable energy facilities, built and producing power before the state first adopted its renewable energy targets in 2002, are expiring, and many facilities are in danger of shutting down because they are locked into low prices.

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New federal rules for Calif. desert put too many prime wind energy sites off-limits

A new plan released by the federal Bureau of Land Management (BLM) puts approximately three million acres that had been available for solar and wind development off-limits. This will make it difficult, if not impossible, to achieve the plan’s stated planning goal of 20,000 MW of renewable energy and presents a challenge to the greenhouse-gas-reduction goals laid out by President Obama and Governor Jerry Brown.