California Releases Report Charting Path to 100 Percent Clean Electricity Published: Tuesday, 16 March 2021 05:56
Initial Assessment Projects Energy Resources Needed, Details Benefits of Achieving State Law
The report is the initial analysis called for in Senate Bill 100 (SB 100, De León, Chapter 312, Statutes of 2018), the state’s landmark policy requiring that renewable and zero-carbon energy resources supply 100 percent of electric retail sales to customers by 2045. The bill was signed into law in 2018 and calls for these resources to replace fossil fuels for generating electricity in the state.
The 178-page report finds that the goals of SB 100 can be achieved in different ways, but reaching them will require significant investments in new and existing technologies and an increased, sustained build-out of clean energy projects to bring new resources on-line. The report modeled various scenarios to examine sample paths to carbon-free energy. It will be followed with a
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Environmental groups are challenging the California Public Utilities Commission s (CPUC) decision to authorize emergency capacity procurements for the summer months, saying that it essentially creates a loophole for new investments in fossil fuel resources despite the state s long-term climate goals.
Sierra Club, the Union of Concerned Scientists and the California Environmental Justice Alliance (CEJA) last week filed an application asking the commission to reconsider the decision, after the state s utilities outlined plans to contract additional capacity from existing fossil fuel plants. The commission is digging us deeper into a hole by making us more dependent on fossil fuels … and it s doing so on the backs of communities that have been bearing the brunt of the pollution for far too long already, said Nina Robertson, staff attorney with Earthjustice.
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