Sustainability Science

CSU Channel Islands is set to begin installing a solar array that will provide approximately 68% of the University’s electrical energy needs on an annual basis.

Saul Griffith is the co-author of a new report that outlines a plan to reduce U.S. dependence on fossil fuels while creating millions of jobs.

Ordinarily conservative utilities are throwing everything they can into reducing these risks.

The California utility promises that its customers’ lights will stay on if it files for bankruptcy this month, but companies that supply it with electricity might have more to worry about.

This story was originally published by Grist and appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. If you want to get electricity generated by fossil fuels in California you’re soon going to be out of luck. A bill that just made it through the legislature requires the state’s electricity to come entirely from zero-carbon sources by 2045. […]

By Llewellyn King — Electricity is the sexiest thing you can’t see. It’s the tie that binds modern society together; makes life comfortable, even livable; and keeps everything humming, from computers to production lines. Without it civil disorder and a […]

California regulators want Pacific Gas and Electric Co. to replace three natural-gas fueled plants with energy storage to help meet reliability needs, saying clean energy alternatives can solve demand concerns.

Imagine a California future where fossil fuels are never used to generate electricity. That's a proposal lawmakers are considering now. What would it take to hit that goal?

Utility regulators are upending the financial dynamics of residential solar as they try to meet their obligations to customers who don’t have roof panels.

Electric utility regulators claim to use a model to decide how much a utility should earn. But the data don’t support that idea, as returns to utilities have steadily risen over the past 40 years. CMU researchers try to understand what they might be doing instead.

Reporters in 14 newsrooms across the Midwest teamed up with InsideClimate News to explore local solutions to climate change.

More than 100 cities have pledged to run on 100% renewable energy and signed onto the Sierra Club’s “Ready for 100” campaign. But turning commitment into action is where the real work begins, and Atlanta might be the ultimate test case.

If the world is to keep global warming to levels society can tolerate, the deadline for ridding the roads of gas powered cars and trucks is approaching unnervingly fast. But even clean technology capital California has no clear path for getting there. Will Jerry Brown's climate summit help?

Wind and solar farms are glutting networks more frequently, prompting a market signal for coal plants to shut off

Less than a month after Elon Musk's Tesla Inc. unveiled a new backup power system in Australia, the world's largest lithium-ion battery is already being put to the test. It appears to be far exceeding expectations.

Elon Musk is ready to tackle rebuilding Puerto Rico's electrical grid. Tesla has already implemented systemwide solar and battery projects on islands like Kauai in Hawaii and another American Samoa. When Scott Stapf of the consulting firm The Hastings Group tweeted to the Tesla founder that the damage to the island's  grid after Hurrican

U.S. energy-related carbon pollution fell in 2016, part of a decade-long trend as utilities use less coal in favor of natural gas.

Pacific Gas & Electric Co. and environmental groups said Tuesday that the Diablo Canyon plant will close by 2025. The electricity it generated will come instead from solar and renewable energy.