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Legislature Extends Greenhouse Gas Cap-and-Trade Program: AB 398 and AB 617
(Jessica Kirshner, a 2L at the University of San Diego School of Law, wrote this post. It was minimally edited for publication.) AB 398 and AB 617 are the latest push by the legislature to meet SB 32’s greenhouse gas … Continue reading
Supreme Court Denial of Petition Upholds Appellate Decision on Cap-and-Trade
The Supreme Court denied a petition to review the Third Appellate District court decision on the California Chamber of Commerce, et al. v. California Air Resources Board, et al consolidated cases. In that decision, the Third Appellate District affirmed a … Continue reading
Posted in Greenhouse Gas, Legislation, Litigation
Tagged California, CARB, Climate Change, Electricity, Energy, GHGs, Legislation, Policy
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Legislative Update June 2017
The deadline for bill to pass out of their house of origin occurred on June 1, 2017. The following is a short list of important bills that met this deadline as well as two pieces of legislation that may move … Continue reading
Posted in Energy, Energy Efficiency, Greenhouse Gas, Legislation, Renewable Energy
Tagged California, Climate Change, CO2, Commercial, Electricity, Energy, Legislation, local government, methodology, Policy, Residential, solar
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2017 Legislative Session: Two Bills Seek to Amend the Solar Rights Act relating to HOAs
Two recently amended bills, AB 634 and SB 522, address issues faced by residential property owners who live in common interest developments that seek to install rooftop solar. Both bills would amend the Solar Rights Act, but for different purposes. … Continue reading
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Tagged California, Electricity, Energy, Legislation, Policy, Rootop Solar, Solar Rights Act, Solar Thermal
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AB 79: Quantifying Hourly GHG Emissions from Unspecified Electric Generation Sources
Accurately quantifying and allocating greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions to the causal load is a fundamental practice in climate planning. Emissions from unspecified sources remains a blind spot in accurately quantifying and accurately allocating GHG emissions in GHG emission calculations. We … Continue reading
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Tagged California, Climate Change, Electricity, Energy, GHGs, Legislation, methodology, Policy
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Preparing for A Generation of Electric Vehicles: Incentives and Infrastructure Development
Growing popularity of zero and near-zero emission vehicles among consumers and car manufacturers has not gone unnoticed by the legislature. The 2017 legislative session revealed a push in favor of increasing the amount of such vehicles in the State through … Continue reading
2017 Legislative Session Take-Away: Major Focus on Low-Income and Disadvantaged Communities
In the 2017 legislative session, there is a clear trend that shows the intent to focus and prioritize energy and climate policy for low-income and disadvantaged communities. This post will provide a short analysis on the priorities broken down by … Continue reading
AB 1110: GHG Emission Intensity Reporting for Electricity, Causation, and the Problem of Electricity from Unspecified Power
The issue of accurately attributing greenhouse gases (GHG) to the load that caused the emission remains a difficult issue for GHG accounting. We previously posted about causation as the basis for attributing GHG emissions from electricity. In this post, we … Continue reading
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Tagged California, Electricity, Energy, Legislation, methodology, Policy
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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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