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Together with the state’s shift toward low-carbon generation of electricity, electrifying transportation is a key pathway for California’s clean energy strategy.

SAN FRANCISCO — With California’s grid facing an era of rapid change as access to renewable energy grows, three new reports from the nonprofit, nonpartisan think tank Next 10 examine key issues involving the state’s power system.

California's energy system is undergoing a radical transformation driven by disruptive technologies, consumer preferences, and aggressive clean energy policies.

A new report looks at the impact alternative energy programs — called community choice aggregation — will have on California’s power grid.

California is on track to meet its clean-energy goals a decade early thanks in part to communities demanding and delivering renewable energy faster and cheaper than utilities can, according to a report released this morning.

California may finally achieve its dream of an integrated western grid — if skeptics can be convinced the state's energy policies and economy are protected.

While the ongoing effort to expand the West’s power markets is now focused on California, experts say regionalization could follow multiple paths, not all of them through Sacramento.

California is in the midst of a debate over whether to integrate its grid into a broader network or maintain tighter control over its electricity policy and supply. California's renewables industry could shed jobs under a broader regionalization of the electric grid, but the move would be a net-plus for employment, the new report concludes.

Should California expand its energy markets to incorporate the rest of the Western United States?

A proposed network aimed at serving the electricity needs of California and other Western states would lower energy costs, spur a greater use of renewable energy and create another 10,000 to 20,000 jobs a year in California by 2030, an industry gr