Publications

The state has a new Governor and a large budget surplus of over $22 billion in fiscal year (FY) 2019-20 due to higher-than-expected revenues and continued economic growth.

Investing in the capacity of California’s lands to store carbon can cut significant emissions and deliver billions in economic value, while reducing the risk of wildfire—but the state must act quickly to avoid these lands becoming a greater source of emissions as climate impacts take hold.

Tenth annual California Green Innovation Index finds that policies driving record-setting investment and innovation, but transportation emissions keep rising.

Distributed energy resources (DERs) are small technologies — including rooftop solar, energy storage, microgrids, load control, energy efficiency, and communication and control technologies — that produce, store, manage, and reduce the use of energy.

Communities across California are forming Community Choice Aggregators (CCAs) at a rapid rate since 2010, with over half of them starting within the last two years. County and city governments administer CCAs as local alternatives to investor-owned utilities (IOUs).