An OurEnergyPolicy webinar focused on the importance of minerals to U.S. decarbonization and the vulnerability created by relying on imports.

Gov. Gavin Newsom's FY 21-22 budget plan proposes spending $6.1 billion more on zero-emission vehicles and $1 billion on building electrification.

PG&E plans to build more standalone “remote grids” in California, allowing the utility to remove distribution lines serving small groups of isolated customers as a way to reduce wildfire danger.

CAISO intends in 2022 to focus on long-term transmission planning, interconnecting storage and extending the real-time Western EIM to a day-ahead market.

Stakeholders endorsed a PJM proposal at a Markets and Reliability Committee meeting to improve the deployment of synchronized reserves during a spin event.

CAISO proposed paying batteries to stay charged during the day in readiness for summer evening peaks to maintain resource adequacy in Western heat waves.

The CPUC fined Southern California Edison $550 million for major wildfires in 2017-18 and approved the utility's new $1.3 billion storage project.

Hawaii's PUC approved construction of the West Kauai Energy Project, a pumped storage hydropower project designed to produce 110 GWh of annual output.

FERC approved the latest set of CAISO tariff changes meant to promote participation by storage, distributed energy and DR resources in its markets.

FERC approved a settlement between Southern California Edison and opponents that reduces potential costs and smooths the way for battery interconnections.