With solar and wind power making distributed generation an increasing factor in California’s 
energy market, utilities face the challenge of covering their fixed costs. A new tariff issued by California to Sempra Energy’s Southern California Gas Co. aims to benefit utilities and their customers.
The state’s Public Service Commission has issued its first Distributed Energy Resources Service (DERS) tariff to SoCalGas. The DERS tariff allows SoCalGas to own and operate Combined Heat and Power (CHP) facilities on or near a customer’s location, and provide output from the CHP to the customer at regulated prices.
program for 2016, including $4.5 billion of expenditures by affiliates. The 2016 budget is 24% lower than investments for 2015.
Exporting Countries) ended a contentious six-hour biennial meeting in Vienna on Dec. 4 without any agreement to restrain crude oil production.
pipeline that runs from the Santa Barbara coast to Kern County, and to take other corrective action following a failure in the system on May 19 that spilled 2,500 barrels of heavy crude on the coastline.
After a day-long hearing, the Kern County Board of Supervisors adopted an ordinance implementing a new land use approval process for oil and gas exploration, extraction, operation and production activities, and also accepted an accompanying environmental impact report.