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This is California Wire , a weekly newsletter from Jeff St. John on the state’s clean energy transition. Subscribe to get it every Wednesday via Substack. Welcome back to California Wire! This week, I want to dive into a topic that’s both timely and timeless: transmission lines, and how long it takes to build…

Connecticut is trying to clean up its grid with more solar energy. But a major utility’s reluctance to commit to buying power from some projects is raising questions about the prospects for success. Connecticut last month announced plans to secure 63.4 megawatts of new solar capacity from arrays to be built in New…

Households and the power grid run on alternating current. Batteries — including those in electric vehicles — run on direct current. That AC-DC divide has complicated the prospect of EVs as home backup batteries. Today, almost every commercially available vehicle-to-home (V2H) backup power system in the U.S. requires…

In restaurant kitchens around the U.S., cooks are toiling away to create mouthwatering meals, from bibimbap to spaghetti puttanesca. But their own stomachs may be roiling. That’s what Christopher Galarza, a longtime chef and co-founder of sustainable kitchen certification company EcoChef, experienced firsthand back…

For well over a year, the twin problems of rising utility bills and soaring electric demand spurred by the AI boom have consumed the energy policy debate in Virginia, the data center capital of the world. Clean energy foes — mostly Republicans — say the state’s landmark zero-carbon mandate should be scaled back or…

America’s energy supply crunch is driving a surge of federal and private investment in new electricity generation — from polluting gas turbines to cleaner developments like solar farms and geothermal plants. But gigawatts of power are already available for the taking across the U.S. economy in the form of wasted…

More than a dozen California cities and counties have been trying for months to get climate-forward building standards enacted. But they've been caught in regulatory purgatory thanks to legislation meant to address the state’s affordable housing crisis. Last year, in an effort to ease development, California hit the…

Election season is heating up, and while fewer candidates are mentioning climate change , everyone seems to be talking about energy affordability. The topic defined the contests for governor in Virginia and New Jersey, and the usually sleepy election for utility regulators in Georgia. In all those cases, Democrats…

This analysis and news roundup come from the Canary Media Weekly newsletter. Sign up to get it every Friday . This week, the Transportation Department finalized its plan to roll back fuel efficiency standards for automobiles. Automakers will now be required to achieve an average fuel efficiency of 34.9 miles per…

See more from Canary Media’s ​“Chart of the Week” column . The market for battery-powered trucks may be slowing in the U.S. — but globally it’s a very different story. Worldwide, sales of medium- and heavy-duty electric trucks hit a record high in the first half of this year, according to research firm…