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Renewable Energy Credits and Carbon Offset Credits
(Many thanks to Cameron Bernhardt for research and writing for this post) While EPIC has written about renewable energy credits in California in the past, this constitutes the first of a series of blog posts related to renewable energy credits … Continue reading
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Tagged CAFE, California, Carbon Credits, Carbon Dioxide, Carbon Offsets, climate planning, Electricity, Emission Factor, Energy, Greenhouse Gas, Renewable, Renewable Energy Credits, Voluntary Renewable Electricity, WREGIS
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Stay of EPA’s Clean Power Plan, SB 350, and CAISO Regional Expansion
Yesterday, the U.S. Supreme Court issued orders (such as this Order) granting five petitions to stay the EPA’s “Carbon Pollution Emission Guidelines for Existing Stationary Sources: Electric Utility Generating Units” 80 Fed. Reg. 65,662 (October 23, 2015), or Clean Power … Continue reading
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Center for Biological Diversity et al., v. California Department of Fish and Wildlife, and the Newhall Land and Farming Company: the Burden of CEQA Land Use GHG Emission Reduction Analysis at the Local Level
The Center for Biological Diversity et al., v. California Department of Fish and Wildlife, and The Newhall Land and Farming Company, 62 Cal.4th 204 (2015)(hereafter, the Newhall Land case) addresses three issues: 1) whether the project level environmental impact report … Continue reading
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Tagged AB 32, California, CEQA, climate planning, General Plan, Greenhouse Gas, Land Use, Project Emission Reductions
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The Season for Climate Action: Paris Agreement and City of San Diego Climate Action Plan
The Draft Decision -/CP.21 known as the “Paris Agreement under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change” was adopted by consensus of 195 countries on December 12, 2015 at COP21 and includes the Paris Agreement an Annex to the … Continue reading
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Addressing the Role of Electric Vehicles in Greenhouse Gas Reduction: California Independent System Operator Action
Source: Kempton and Tomic 2005. Journal of Power Sources This is the third post in a series looking at legislative and regulatory action addressing Electric Vehicle (EV) greenhouse gas (GHG) emission reductions(See previous posts on the CPUC and State Legislative … Continue reading
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COPs and CAPs: Goals for stabilization of carbon emissions
The COP21 talks and events started on Monday November 30, 2015. Though California is not a nation, and therefore not a member of the UNFCCC, there are 8 California lawmakers accompanying Governor Brown to the Conference. While the US government, … Continue reading
Half-Empty Planes: Utilization Rates for California’s Electric Grid Part II
In Part I of this post, we discussed the concept of asset utilization — or load factor — and looked at recent trends for California’s investor-owned utilities (IOU). The trend over the past two decades for IOU load factors has been … Continue reading
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Tagged California, Carbon Dioxide, Demand, Electricity, Greenhouse Gas, Load, Load Factor, Policy, SDG&E
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June 2015 Legislative Update: Energy Procurement, Net Energy Metering, Electric Vehicle Chargers, and Green House Gas (GHG) regulation.
A. Direct Access (DA): SB 286 SB 286 would require a 2nd phase-in period to expand individual retail nonresidential end-use customers direct transactions over a period not to exceed 3 years, raising the allowable limit of kilowatthours that can be … Continue reading
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How to Allocate GHG Emissions Reductions Among Mitigation Measures
Climate planning is a relatively new science. And like all sciences still in their infancy, numerous methodologies exist for accomplishing essentially the same task. There are many aspects to developing a climate plan, however aspects fundamental to all climate plans include: … Continue reading
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Petitions to Re-Hear Denied: The Low Carbon Fuel Standard Still Stands Intact
(Many thanks to Joseph Mandry for his research and writing for this post). On January 22, 2014, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals denied petitions to rehear Rocky Mountain Farmers Union v. Corey, en banc. Rocky Mountain Farmers Union v. … Continue reading
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