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A 2022 law to speed up clean energy project approvals has become a poster child of California’s struggle to cut bureaucratic ...
California has taken another big step in its fight against climate change by signing a new agreement with Denmark. A major ...
Trump promised during the 2024 campaign to lower Americans’ electric bills by 50%. Democrats have been quick to blame him for ...
The first big wind farms in the U.S. were built in California, then the industry boomed nationwide. There are now more than 60,000 turbines in the U.S., with the biggest clusters in the Midwest.
California’s desert areas are considered prime spots for wind farms and in the final months of the Obama administration, a plan was finalized that set aside more than 10 million acres for ...
Clean energy companies are asking California leaders for help getting their projects going before changes to federal subsidies in President Donald Trump's sweeping new tax and spending law make them ...
To meet Biden’s lofty target, the feds and California announced a partnership this past spring and said plans were underway to get new turbines built and moored to the Pacific Ocean. Though California ...
Our state's leaders need to think strategically and act immediately. Capitalizing on existing infrastructure will be key.
California produces about 6% of U.S. wind power, but 50% of the solar power. California also confronts less of a NIMBY problem than others: nearly 80% of Californians support using their vast ...
LOS ANGELES (AP) — California and the U.S. government announced an agreement Tuesday to open up areas off the state's central and northern coasts to the first commercial wind energy farms on the ...
General Electric Co., which makes half of the turbines in the U.S., has invested more than $1.5 billion developing renewable energy technology since entering the wind business in 2002.
According to 2010 figures from the California Energy Commission, wind made up 4.7 percent of the state’s electricity mix and solar was 0.3 percent.