Clean Energy
DERs stands for
What is Distributed Energy Resources?
The LADWP project we fought against this year
What is Scattergood?
Recently, this power plant in Utah stopped delivering coal to LADWP.
This is the largest municipal utility in the country.
What is LADWP?
The entity that is in change of transmission planning for the state.
What is CAISO?
Using less energy to perform the same task
What is energy efficiency?
This is the pipeline that SoCalGas is proposing to deliver hydrogen
In 2022, about 36% of Californias electricity came from this source.
What is natural gas?
The largest investor-owned utility in CA by customer base and geography.
What is PG&E?
This was created by the Governor in 2020 in response to reliability concerns following the 2020 blackouts.
What is the Strategic Reliability Reserve?
California gets the most clean energy from this source
What is solar energy?
A power plant that was recently proposed to increase gas capacity as part of an "efficiency upgrade"
What is the Magnolia Power Plant?
This power plant was found to be the worst NOx emitter in Regenerate's Notorious Nine report last year.
What is the Walnut Creek Energy Park?
Utilities need to submit these to the CPUC as part of their long-term planning.
What is Integrated Resource Plan?
This is the proceeding that determines how much rate-of-return utilities make on their investments.
What is Cost-of-Capital?
This is the project proposed at the Port of Long Beach that would support the development of offshore wind.
What is the Pier Wind project?
Technology proposed to be added to power plants or refineries to keep them online while claiming to decrease emissions.
What is Carbon Capture and Sequestration?
This plant in Oxnard should have been retired in 2020, but has been extended twice by the Governor and CEC.
What is the Ormond Beach Generating Station?
These utilities are directly overseen by the CPUC.
What are Investor-Owned-Utilities (IOUs)?
This proceeding ensures that we always have enough resources on the grid that are safe and reliable.
What is the Resource Adequacy proceeding?
As of October 2025, this many days in CA were powered, at some part of the day, by 100% clean energy.
What is 259 days?
Hydrogen made through steam methane reformation.
Power plants using this technology have been mandated to retired by the State Water Board, but have received extensions by the Governor.
What is Once-Thru Cooling technology?
This is a program that allowed local entities to purchase electricity from alternative suppliers. This program is only possible in IOU territories.
What is Community Choice Aggregation (CCA)/ Community Choice Energy?
These are the two main programs in the Strategic Reliability Reserve.
What is Demand Side Grid Support (DSGS) and Distributed Electricity Backup Assets (DEBA)?