CEC EPIC report highlights research making grid more resilient & reliable
The California Energy Commission’s (CEC) latest annual report on the Electric Program Investment Charge (EPIC) program highlights how public-interest research is helping California meet its goal of decarbonizing the electrical system by 2045.
EPIC is California’s premier clean energy research and development program. Each year, more than $130 million in EPIC funding is invested in projects that advance the environmental sustainability, reliability, and affordability of the electric system.
EPIC funds are competitively awarded to support the most promising technologies and approaches across six investment areas: the entrepreneurial ecosystem; resilience and safety; building decarbonization; grid decarbonization and decentralization; industrial and agricultural innovation; and low-carbon transportation. EPIC invests in technologies at every stage of development, progressing them from the lab to market co
Report Highlights Research That Makes California’s Electric Grid More Resilient, Reliable Published: Thursday, 06 May 2021 06:01
EPIC Projects Create Thousands of Jobs, Attract Billions in Private Investment
May 6, 2021 - Sacramento – The California Energy Commission’s (CEC) latest annual report on the Electric Program Investment Charge (EPIC) program highlights how public-interest research is helping California meet its goal of decarbonizing the
electrical system by 2045 and supporting technologies that help address the devastating effects of climate change.
EPIC is the state’s premier clean energy research and development program. Each year, more than $130 million in EPIC funding is invested in projects that advance the environmental sustainability, reliability, and affordability of the electric system. From 2012 through 2020, EPIC supported more than 380 projects with $846 million in funding resulting in 3,500 jobs and $3.5 bi
Out with Junípero Serra, in with Native Americans. Plan calls for replacing Capitol Park statue
Sacramento Bee 2 days ago Kim Bojórquez, The Sacramento Bee
Apr. 30 A California Democrat is seeking to replace a former statue of a controversial 18th-century Spanish missionary on the grounds of Sacramento s Capitol Park with a new monument that recognizes regional tribes.
Assembly Bill 338, authored by Assemblyman James C. Ramos, D-Highland, would strike a decades-old requirement to keep and maintain a monument of Father Junípero Serra, who is dubbed the father of the California missions.
Instead, the bill would allow tribal nations in the Sacramento region, in coordination with the Department of General Services, to plan and construct a new monument.
Bay Briefing: This is a vaccine for our land
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Volunteer Jiordi Rosales leaves a trail of fire with a driptorch during a preventative vegetation burn in Healdsburg.Alvin A.H. Jornada / Special to The Chronicle
Good morning, Bay Area. It’s Tuesday, April 27, and we’re tracking what’s changing in Bay Area transit. Here’s what you need to know to start your day.
A little bit of fire to prevent much worse
Dripping small flames from handheld fuel canisters, two dozen people began setting fire to 35 acres of dense brush near homes atop a ridgeline rising out of Dry Creek Valley in Sonoma County the other day.
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