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HECO to study where to underground utility lines as a fire prevention measure
28 Apr 2025 22:30 GMT
Hawaiian Electric plans to study where to put power lines below ground.
Some utilities have turned towards burying power lines as a fire prevention measure.
San Diego Gas & Electric plans to spend hundreds of millions of dollars to put utility lines …
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EPA chief visits San Diego amid sewage crisis; a look at big spending by California lobbyists
28 Apr 2025 16:40 GMT
… money. So , as you said , San Diego Gas and Electric spent nearly $1.7 million …
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Sunrun completes three affordable housing projects in California
28 Apr 2025 18:11 GMT
By SB Staff
April 28, 2025
Sunrun completed three new solar installations at affordable apartment communities in Orange County, California. Collectively, the new rooftop solar projects will provide monthly utility bill savings to approximately 800 low- …
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Sunrun Installs Solar Projects at Three Affordable Apartment Communities in Southern California, Providing Energy Bill Savings to 800 Renters
28 Apr 2025 12:00 GMT
SAN FRANCISCO, April 28, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Sunrun (Nasdaq: RUN), the nation’s leading provider of clean energy as a subscription service, today announced three new solar installations at affordable apartment communities in Orange County, California. …
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NRG donates land for expansion of Hubbs-SeaWorld fish hatchery in Carlsbad
25 Apr 2025 03:47 GMT
NRG Energy officials announced the company’s donation Thursday of 6.6 acres along the Agua Hedionda Lagoon to Hubbs-SeaWorld Research Institute for an expansion of its Carlsbad fish hatchery.
“Aquaculture is more prevalent than most of us realize,” said …
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Fight intensifies over bill by former Edison executive to gut rooftop solar credits
24 Apr 2025 01:35 GMT
A bill to sharply reduce the energy credits given to homeowners with rooftop solar panels is pitting union electrical workers and the state’s big utilities against people who benefit from the solar credits — and one of the first skirmishes took place in …
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Local fire agencies to participate in wildland preparedness exercises next month
24 Apr 2025 00:29 GMT
FILE: Firefighters work on a roadside fire in Santa Barbara County. (REUTERS)
May is Wildfire Awareness Month, and local agencies are making sure they are fire-ready.
Fire personnel will participate in the annual San Diego County Multi-Agency Wildland …
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San Diego fire agencies to practice wildland preparedness
23 Apr 2025 18:26 GMT
SAN MARCOS — Fire personnel will participate in the annual San Diego County Multi-Agency Wildland Preparedness Exercise beginning next month in San Marcos and surrounding areas.
The exercise will take place May 6 to 8 as emergency service agencies from …
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Californians pay too much for electricity. Here are three bold solutions
27 Mar 2025 13:00 GMT
Politicians love to chase easy answers. Alas, when it comes to California’s rising electric rates, there aren’t any.
If limiting rate increases were simple, elected officials would have done it by now. But electric bills keep climbing. From 2019 through …
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Wildfires are driving up California electric bills. Lawmakers need to act
20 Mar 2025 10:00 GMT
Uncomfortable truth time: The biggest reason California’s electric rates are rising so fast is that utility companies are spending billions of dollars each year to reduce the risk of catastrophic wildfires.
Does that mean Southern California Edison, …