Washington Utilities Denied Recovery of $15 Million Related to Colstrip’s 2018 Outage

California Community Choice Aggregators Seek 30 Megawatts of Customer-Sited Batteries to Tackle Fire-Prevention Outages

Energy Storage, EnerKnol Impacts, EnerKnol Pulse

East Bay Community Energy, Peninsula Clean Energy, Silicon Valley Clean Energy, and municipal utility Silicon Valley Power on Nov. 5 issued a request for proposals for about 33 megawatts of behind-the-meter battery projects to protect their customers and communities from Pacific Gas & Electric Company’s massive fire-prevention power outages. The entities noted that the growing threat…

Energy Department Light Bulb Standards

States, Environmental Groups Challenge Reversal of Obama-Era Lightbulb Standards

Energy Efficiency, EnerKnol Impact-Misc Categories, EnerKnol Pulse

A coalition of 16 attorneys general and the City of New York on Nov. 4 filed a lawsuit challenging the U.S. Energy Department’s final rule that reversed the 2017 expansion of energy efficiency standards for certain light bulbs. The group, led by California and New York, argues that the reversal enacts a less stringent standard…