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As Climate Changes, Alternative Energy Systems Get Close Look

July 29, 2021/in California and the U.S., Home Headline, Media Coverage /by Mike Lee /Capitol Weeklyby Eric Furth

Officials with jurisdiction over about 80% of California’s power grid say the state faces a grim outlook as summer heat, wildfires and a severe drought intensify.

“When you step back, I think many of us are really recognizing now that climate change and these extreme heat waves happening in the earlier parts of the summer now have forced all of us to do things that we really never imagined just a few years ago,” Elliot Mainzer, president and CEO of California’s Independent System Operator, said recently.

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Decline in Hydropower Hampered by Drought Will Impact Utility Costs

August 10, 2020/in California and the U.S., Home Headline, Media Coverage /by Mike Lee /The Mercury Newsby Jesse Kathan

Hydroelectric power from dams usually provides about 15% of California’s electricity needs. But in 2015, at the zenith of the worst drought in California’s recorded history, it supplied only 6%.

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The United States Is Headed For A Battery Breakthrough

July 11, 2019/in California and the U.S., Media Coverage /by Gayle Falkenthal /PV Magazineby Tim Sylvia

Symbiosis is one of life’s most beautiful and lasting natural phenomena. Regardless of the circumstances, certain things just work perfectly together: peanut butter and jelly, sharks and pilot fish, Brady and Belichick. The energy revolution is no different, as renewable resources and battery storage go together like two peas in a pod.

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USD Installs Second Wind and Solar ‘Nanogrid’ Tower on its Campus

July 10, 2019/in Home Headline, Media Coverage, San Diego County /by Gayle Falkenthal /Times of San Diegoby Chris Jennewein

The University of San Diego dedicated on Wednesday the second free-standing solar and wind energy tower installed on its campus by a local startup.

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