California’s renewable energy journey has been remarkable and the popularity of “rooftop solar” has played a major role in it. For over two decades, this has been driven by the State’s Net energy metering (NEM) policy which has gone through multiple revisions since its introduction in 1996. This policy brief discusses a few urgent equity issues with the latest NEM 3.0 rate design and proposes some tweaks. First, an increase in both the fixed ‘grid participation’ charge and the variable price paid for electricity exports to the grid are proposed.
The Governor’s Office of Emergency Services (CalOES)’s Prepare California Initiative provides socially vulnerable and natural hazard-exposed communities the opportunity to invest in their own disaster resilience. Through two grant programs, Prepare California provides vulnerable communities the resources necessary to build local resilience, improve hazard mitigation infrastructure and disaster protocol, as well as increase public awareness of disaster risk in the face of escalating (and climate change-induced) natural disaster threat. To qualify for Prepare
As a response to the climate change crisis, Sonoma County has committed to becoming carbon neutral by 2030. As approximately 60% of the county’s total emissions, policy addressing transportation greenhouse gas (GHG) could provide substantial progress towards this goal. However, the complexity, cost, and scale of transportation policy challenge the county’s ability to reduce transportation GHGs.
The Sustainable Groundwater Management Act (SGMA) was passed in 2014 to help achieve sustainable water levels in groundwater basins across the state of California. This act called for the creation of local Groundwater Sustainability Agencies (GSAs) who are responsible for drafting Groundwater Sustainability Plans (GSPs) that outline how their basins will be brought in to balance through careful management actions.
The global transition to a green economy is accelerating alongside the arrival of climate change impacts. Lucrative, leading market positions throughout...
Black Carbon (BC) is a source of local air pollution and a major contributor to global warming. Black Carbon is generated by incomplete combustion sources, including diesel engines, vehicles emissions, residential wood burning and forest fires. Reducing BC emissions could greatly reduce climate impacts on the short and medium term, while improving...
