Rising from the Ashes: How PG&E’s Bankruptcy Could Impact the Energy Sector and California’s Progress on Climate Change By Dianne Coffino, William R. Collins, James R. Dean Jr., W. Andrew Jack, Jake Levine, Bill Massey, Mark Perlis, Kevin Poloncarz and Donald Ristow of Covington & Burling LLPFebruary 4, 2019 With potential liabilities in excess of $30 billion stemming from a series of deadly wildfires that ignited across Northern California in 2017 and 2018, Pacific Gas and Electric Company and its holding company PG&E Corp. (PG&E) filed for Chapter 11 relief in the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Northern District of California on Tuesday.… Read more
Looking Ahead: My 2019 Renewable Energy Industry Outlook By Marlene Motyka, Deloitte Transactions and Business Analytics LLPJanuary 2, 2019 EDITOR’S NOTE: This article is a synopsis of Deloitte’s 2019 Renewable Energy Industry Outlook. In 2018, the core fundamentals that drove growth in the renewable energy sector included the declining costs of wind and solar generation, advances in battery storage technology and grid operators’ growing expertise and expanding tool set for integrating intermittent renewable… Read more
A Battery Storage System Can be the Perfect Complement to Your New Solar PPA By Michael Pariser, EDF Renewables North AmericaDecember 17, 2018 EDITOR’S NOTE: This piece was originally published on EDF Renewables’ website, and is being republished with permission of the author. Hedging Against the Duck Curve As the solar industry continues to make progress on the technology cost curve, the economic competitiveness of solar power has steadily become a reality in U.S. markets across California and the desert… Read more
How the Midterm Results and Corporate Incentives Will Accelerate Demand for Renewables in 2019 and Beyond By Max AlmonoDecember 4, 2018 Last month, ACORE hosted an executive meeting in San Francisco with senior-level developers, financiers, utilities and corporate buyers to discuss the results of the midterm elections and the new market structures that are driving growth in corporate procurement of renewable energy. Our first panel featured policy experts from E.ON and Lincoln Clean Energy in a… Read more
Buying renewable energy should be easy — here’s one way to make it less complex By Brian Janous, Microsoft; Kenneth Davies, Microsoft; and Lee Taylor, REsuretyNovember 19, 2018 EDITOR’S NOTE: This article originally appeared on Microsoft Corporate Blogs, and is being republished with permission of the author. It would be difficult to overestimate the impact that corporate procurement of renewable energy, primarily through power purchase agreements (PPAs), has had on the overall renewable market. In less than a decade, renewable energy created from corporate PPAs went… Read more
How Clean Energy Figured in State-level Midterm Elections By Matthew Crosby, Coronal EnergyNovember 13, 2018 EDITOR’S NOTE: This article originally appeared on Coronal Energy Insights, and is being republished with permission of the author. In the historic recent midterm elections—where seven governor’s seats and seven state legislatures switched from Republican to Democrat—voters continued to voice their strong support for renewable and advanced energy. In addition, voters split on several key ballot initiatives in… Read more
