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Los Angeles Times – May 7
Southern California air quality officials have adopted controversial new rules on warehouse distribution centers in an effort to cut truck pollution, increase electrification, and reduce health risks in communities hit hardest by lung-damaging diesel exhaust. The South Coast Air Quality Management District’s governing board approved the rules Friday on a 9-4 vote after a lengthy public hearing featuring sharply contrasting viewpoints. Under the rules, facilities must choose from a menu of pollution reduction and mitigation options, such as using electric or natural-gas-fueled trucks, installing charging stations, erecting rooftop solar panels, putting air filters in neighboring schools and child-care centers, or paying for mitigation the latter payment being a measure that some critics maintain is an unconstitutional tax.
Published: 11 May 2021, 13:50
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Andy Colthorpe
Desert Community Energy also signed off-take deals for wind power with power producer Terra-Gen in February. Image: Desert Community Energy via Twitter, cropped by Andy Colthorpe.
A long-term power purchase agreement has been signed for the output of a 50MW solar farm with 200MWh of battery storage, by Desert Community Energy, one of several Community Choice Aggregator (CCA) energy suppliers in California.
Desert Community Energy signed a 20-year PPA deal with developer Vesper Energy for the CCA to buy all of the energy produced by the Deer Creek project for its customers in the City of Palm Springs. The 378 acre project in California’s Tulare County is scheduled to begin construction in 2022 for completion during the following year.
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Conservationists in California and across the West are deeply skeptical of hydropower, and it’s not hard to see why. There’s a long history of government agencies damming spectacular canyons, choking off rivers, obliterating fish populations and cutting off access to Indigenous peoples. It’s a history detailed in books such as “Cadillac Desert,” and experienced by anyone who has spent time fishing, kayaking or swimming in the region’s reshaped waterways, or hiking alongside them.
Published: 5 May 2021, 14:06
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Containerised battery energy storage systems (BESS). Image: Mitsubishi Power.
Mitsubishi Power Americas and Powin Energy have been appointed to retrofit 640MWh of batteries to solar PV plants in California, while a community energy group in the state has just signed a power purchase agreement for a 100MW solar plant with 150MW / 600MWh of storage.
Wholesale energy provider Southern Power said in February that it would add a 72MW / 288MWh battery energy storage system (BESS) at Tranquility Solar Facility, a 205MW project in California’s Fresno County, as well as 88MW / 352MWh of battery storage at the 200MW Garland Solar Facility in Kern County.