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The Energy Futures Webinar Series is drawing on experts in all walks of running a Community Choice Energy District; accumulated knowledge; power procurement contracting; types of energy storage; and why the transition to a clean energy future is both affordable and a wealth creation opportunity...
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Bulk energy storage funded by and for the public over the long term is one possible answer to getting pumped hydro facilities built including San Vicente.
An astonishing 630,864 MWH of clean, renewable energy was wasted due to lack of demand during the first five months of 2019 on the California Grid. And, much of that energy had to be paid for by the ratepayer under take or pay long term contracts.
See CAISO Managing Oversupply.
See CAISO Managing Oversupply.
By shaping demand to take advantage of renewable generation when it is available, we can eliminate—or at least reduce—the peak requirements.
Do you understand load shaping & shifting?
Excellent report from ABB courtesy of GTM on grid modernization requirements to accelerate utilization of renewables and reduce curtailments. (Download here.)
WORKING WITH YOUR INVESTOR OWNED UTILITY
But you know it wasn’t just climate change that caused all these devastating wildfires in PG&E territory. It was PG&E's negligence. If it were just climate change all utilities in the arid West at the urban wildland interface would be experiencing the same kinds of problems. And San Diego Gas and Electric used to experience those in the early 2000’s but then they stopped with their devastating wildfires by and large. Why? Because plaintiff’s lawyers and victims held them accountable and they changed their practices not only in deenergizing or turning off the power but also in replacing the power poles and replacing the lines and doing the maintenance and doing the tree trimming and
all the other things that PG&E has failed to do.
When I was first president of the California Public Utilities Commission in 2000 we fined PG&E for failing to use their designated money for tree trimming. We fined them over hundred million dollars. That was chump change to them. They continued to pocket necessary maintenance monies and profit from it while the system deteriorated. That's why they were convicted of criminal negligence and that's what we have to change. That was a failure frankly of the Public Utilities Commission and the political leadership for the last 10 years and trusting PG&E and not verifying. They’ve just lost our trust. They've lost the benefit of the doubt. And now we need to verify, verify, verify, and never trust again.
all the other things that PG&E has failed to do.
When I was first president of the California Public Utilities Commission in 2000 we fined PG&E for failing to use their designated money for tree trimming. We fined them over hundred million dollars. That was chump change to them. They continued to pocket necessary maintenance monies and profit from it while the system deteriorated. That's why they were convicted of criminal negligence and that's what we have to change. That was a failure frankly of the Public Utilities Commission and the political leadership for the last 10 years and trusting PG&E and not verifying. They’ve just lost our trust. They've lost the benefit of the doubt. And now we need to verify, verify, verify, and never trust again.
- Loretta Lynch, former CPUC president
A rapid transition to a carbon-neutral world requires professional expertise, collaboration and implementation.
Here's one report informing the 2019 Energy Futures Webinars.
Know how. Be a member of the generation that electrifies the world with clean and carbon-free energy.
Here's one report informing the 2019 Energy Futures Webinars.
Know how. Be a member of the generation that electrifies the world with clean and carbon-free energy.
Energy Futures Digest
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Curtailment of Wind & Solar Energy, California
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The Energy Futures Academy is working with San Diego stakeholders to implement the San Vicente Pumped Hydro project.
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