“If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.” That’s a quote from Carl Sagan’s groundbreaking Cosmos. To build an electrical grid for an imaginary “51st state” from scratch, well, SEPA recently asked utilities and other stakeholders how they would go about it.

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Forget the threat of solar and battery-equipped customers defecting from the grid. The real threat for utilities unwilling to adapt to grid-connected customers installing ever-cheaper solar and energy storage technologies is “load defection” — and that future will come no matter what.

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California Governor Jerry Brown recently announced that there would be mandatory water restrictions for the first time in the state’s history. The dramatic order comes in response to an ever deepening drought crisis thatis now in its fourth year.

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The U.S. pushed strongly for getting climate targets on the table well ahead of this year’s paris negotiation, arguing that exposing countries’ offerings to a bit of scrutiny would encourage them to “put their best foot forward.” With the formal submission of its intended target, the U.S. has arguably done just that.

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The United States remained the world’s top producer of petroleum and natural gas hydrocarbons in 2014, according to U.S. eia estimates. U.S. hydrocarbon production continues to exceed that of both russia and Saudi Arabia, the second- and third-largest producers, respectively.

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The Southern Power Distribution Company of Telangana Limited issued a request for selection and a power purchase agreement for allocating 2 gw of solar pv. This follows the state’s successful allocation of 500 mw late last year and places Telangana right at the top of Indian states with respect to solar.

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Clean energy advocates tend to maintain a bi-coastal focus. No doubt my California and New York colleagues often see their states as the bellwethers when it comes to new policy initiatives. But real innovation is taking place in Illinois, a state that national clean energy advocates tend only to fly over.

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