PG&E sends out alert over Diablo Canyon Power Plant oxygen levels
Pacific Gas & Electric Company released an alert of decreased oxygen levels for a containment unit at the Diablo Canyon Power Plant in San Luis Obispo County on July 28. The alert began at 12:06 p.m., but the company said both units were operating at full power and employees and the public were not at Read More →
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Solar tech firm Next Energy gets funding, new headquarters
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Read More →First Solar begins construction on Cuyama solar power facility
San Luis Obispo-based First Solar began construction of a 40 megawatt solar facility in Cuyama on July 25. Construction is expected to provide 200 jobs and the facility will generate enough electricity to power 16,000 homes on average when it is fully operational — displacing 30,000 metric tons of carbon dioxide each year. Peninsula Clean Read More →
Read More →Venture capital investor NGEN celebrates exit of Choose Energy
Green tech venture capital investor NGEN — an early investor in Soraa with West Coast headquarters in Santa Barbara — celebrated the exit of Texas-based energy market platform Choose Energy June 26. According to reports, South Carolina-based advertising company Red Ventures spent less than $100 million in its acquisition of Choose Energy, though exact figures Read More →
Read More →UCSB gets $4.4 million for program to reduce energy usage in data centers
The Department of Energy awarded UC Santa Barbara $4.4 million for a program that reduces energy consumption in data centers by making communications technology faster and more efficient. U.S. Rep. Salud Carbajal, D-Santa Barbara, announced the award, part of the department’s Advanced Research Project Agency-Energy program. UCSB’s Intelligent Reduction of Energy through Photonic Integration for Read More →
Read More →Our view: Climate regulations would burden small businesses
President Donald Trump’s decision to withdraw from the Paris climate accords drew a swift rebuke from Gov. Jerry Brown, who declared the president “wrong on the facts and wrong on the science” before meeting with the president of China to promote Brown’s clean energy agenda. That the White House remains mum on the idea of Read More →
Read More →Quixotic lawsuit targets Diablo Canyon closure
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