California

Electric vehicle charging / Automotive Rhythms / CC BY-NC-ND 2.0

Research on California's Low Carbon Fuel Standard program suggests the LCFS program design of capacity-based credits has the potential to increase EV deployment, but that some unanswered questions need to be addressed before the point-of-sale rebate program can do the same.

This April 18 page tees up a series of features on resilience-focused microgrid development across the United States.

Better than gold — For clean energy to bump the dirty kind, some minerals look more precious than gold.

As the world rapidly builds renewable energy infrastructure and transportation networks, the critical minerals' sourcing, processing, and trading will have profound economic, environmental, and geopolitical implications. Ensuring the critical minerals’ supply meets ever-rising demand while navigating the mineral supply chain’s impacts on the environment and society is a daunting challenge.

This April 12 story notes a key federal approval for transmission from a 3000-megawatt wind installation in Wyoming to the West Coast.

This is the federal guidance for bonus tax credits to projects in areas that depended on fossil fuel production, released on April 4.

Energy Efficiency:

Source: ACEEE

Buildings:
Score 7.50 / 9

Utilities:
Score 16.00 / 20

Transportation:
Score 10.50 / 12

Source: DSIRE

Energy Efficiency Programs:
172 Incentives and Policies

Solar Power:

Source: DSIRE

Renewable Energy Programs:
76 Incentives and Policies

Solar Energy Programs:
65 Incentives and Policies

Source: YPCCC

86%

of people in California support funding research into renewable energy sources in 2020.

(+1 of the national average)
(est. 25,969,551 of 30,075,104 adults)

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