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Renewable Electricity is in Bloom in California
By Lauren NavarroWhile California never quite got a winter, we can still acknowledge that spring – with the sun shining and flowers blooming – is here. From where I sit in Sacramento, spring means...
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Electricity Pricing: The Times, they Might be A-Changing
By Jamie FineLast week, the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) issued a proposed decision on residential rate reform. Residential rate reform – how and what Californians pay for electricity...
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So You Want an EV? We’re Helping to Figure Out How to Make it Happen
By Larissa KoehlerYou may have noticed: we’re big fans of electric vehicles (EVs) here at Environmental Defense Fund (EDF). Standard transportation fuels are one of the biggest sources of harmful...
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Residential Electricity Pricing in California: We Need an Overhaul, not a...
By Jamie FineHere at Environmental Defense Fund (EDF), we love win-win solutions. This is why we’re big fans of time-of-use (TOU) electricity pricing (a type of time variant electricity pricing). As...
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Timing is Everything: How California is Getting Electricity Pricing Right and...
By Jamie FineAnybody managing a household budget knows it pays to plan ahead. With advanced thinking we can buy favorite items with coupons, when they’re on sale, in bulk, or at the cheapest store in...
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Four Things California Should Consider before Rolling Out Time-of-Use Pricing
By Jamie FineThis summer the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) ordered big changes in how Californians will pay for electricity. Starting in 2019, residential customers of the big three...
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California Utilities Plan for a Cleaner Electric Grid
By Gavin PurchasCalifornia’s “big three” utilities are taking important steps toward achieving a clean energy future – one in which we will better utilize renewable sources of energy, give customers...
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A Stealth Tool to Modernize the Electric Grid
By Jamie FineElectricity regulators, clean energy innovators, and rappers have all lamented poor communication. And some have pushed for cleaner, cheaper, more reliable solutions for meeting our energy...
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In California, Electric Vehicles are the New DeLorean in “Back to the Future”
By Larissa KoehlerAs any child of the ’80s knows, October 21, 2015 is “Back to the Future Day” – the day that the film’s protagonist, Marty McFly, travels to the future in his DeLorean. Though it would...
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Moms Know What’s Best: How Time-of-Use Electricity Pricing can Benefit...
By Jamie FineCalifornia’s “big three” utilities, at the behest of state regulators, are in the process of examining and improving how they price electricity, including something called time-of-use...
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