News, CalWEA in the Media, and reports of interest to our members
CalWEA Executive Director Nancy Rader and CalWEA Siting Advisor Anne E. Mudge discuss what SB 100 means for wind energy in California and the California market.
CalWEA & Wind Industry Articles
News from North American Windpower
Hooray for S.B.100! Now What?
November 1, 2018
News from CalWEA
California Renewable Energy Associations Comment on CPUC Customer Choice 'Green Book'
June 8, 2018
Today, CalWEA, together with most of California’s utility-scale renewable energy industry associations, issued joint comments in response to the California Public Utilities Commission’s draft Customer Choice “Green Book.” Among other things, the comments ask the CPUC to assess the risk that some load-serving entities will not be able to shoulder their share of the state’s renewable energy and greenhouse-gas-reduction targets in the near-term.
News from CalWEA
Renewable Energy Advocates Highlight Urgency of Addressing Utility Wildfire Liability
May 7, 2018
Today, CalWEA joined with virtually all other renewable energy trade groups in sending a letter to the Governor and Legislature regarding the urgent need to address the unlimited liability that the investor-owned utilities are facing after the wildfires, which threatens their solvency -- and, in turn, California's renewable energy and climate goals.
News from CalWEA
CalWEA Comments on BLM Notice of Intent to Amend the DRECP
March 22, 2018
CalWEA today submitted comments on the BLM's Notice of Intent to amend its Desert Renewable Energy Conservation Plan. CalWEA welcomed the review, given the 2016 DRECP’s unreasonable exclusion of wind energy development on BLM lands in California.
News from U.S. BLM
BLM To Reconsider DRECP
February 1, 2018
The U.S. Bureau of Land Management today announced that it will reconsider the Desert Renewable Energy Conservation Plan (DRECP), which largely prohibited wind energy development across the vast California desert. (Also see CalWEA's map depicting that prohibition under "Reports".)