San Diego Battery Storage Project

 A 44 battery storage system project was just announced for San Diego County.  A project location will be built in El Cajon and another location will be rolled out in Chula Vista.  The goal is to add more emissions-free energy to California’s electric grid.  When...

Power Grid and Climate Change

 As SDG&E customers saw in January, various factors play out in influencing the electric power grid – and its costs.  Per a recent study, the electric power grid is heavily influenced by weather patterns, heat waves and dwindling water supplies. Climate change may...

San Diego Community Power Update

Soon, if you live in the City of San Diego, Chula Vista, La Mesa, Encinitas or Imperial Beach, you will get a new electricity provider.  San Diego Community Power (SDCP) a community choice energy program will enroll more than 700,000 residential customers between...

Postponed CPUC Decision

 The CPUC has postponed ruling on a proposed decision that potentially has significant ramifications for California homeowners with solar panel systems.  The Commission begin a proceeding to address a number of issues, on both sides of the debate, surrounding the...

CPUC set to announce new NEM rules soon

California’s “net energy metering” program, in which residential solar customers are allowed to sell energy they don’t use back to power companies, resulting in a big discount and savings on their energy bills, is scheduled to be the subject of proposed reforms soon...