California already has some of the highest electricity rates in the country. Those costs could rise even faster over the next decade, as utilities harden their grids against wildfires, grow their share of net-metered rooftop solar and add other costs that will be passed through to utility customers.
But recovering those costs by charging customers by the kilowatt-hour pushes too much of the burden on those least able to pay, according to a new report from the University of California at Berkeley. That’s not just unfair to the state’s most vulnerable residents, the report argues it could also make it more expensive to electrify transportation and building heating with carbon-free power.
Published 28 Jan, 2021
Celeste is a glorious precision platformer, but it began life as a PICO-8 prototype you could play in your browser. To celebrate the full game s 3rd anniversary, its developers took three days to make a sequel to that original prototype. Celeste 2: Lani s Trek can be played now over on Itch.io.
It s again a game about climbing a mountain, but this time you ve got a grapple hook rather than an air dash. It still lets you move laterally and cling to vertical surfaces, but it s a lot trickier to use it to climb.
Noel Berry, one of the game s developers, said on Twitter that it took 3 days to make, which sounds impressive to me, who will take 3 days to get past the game s second level.
In summary
The road to meeting California’s climate targets won’t be easy, so it is imperative that we implement strong policy across every sector of the economy.
By F. Noel Perry
Hoyu Chong, Special to CalMatters
Hoyu Chong is the practice lead for sustainable growth and development at Beacon Economics, hoyu@beaconecon.com.
Newly appointed leaders at the California Air Resources Board began this year with a monumental task ahead of them. California’s progress on climate change is slipping – and it will take bold leadership and a visionary approach to put the state back on track.
The results from Next 10’s 12th annual California Green Innovation Index, prepared by Beacon Economics, underscore the challenge. For the first time in six years, California’s greenhouse gas emissions ticked upward in 2018, the latest year for which data is available, just as they need to be falling dramatically. To meet California’s legally-binding emission reduction targets, we will
The original Celeste just got a free sequel
Before Celeste graced our screens back in 2018, we had, uh, Celeste. It was a simplified version of the game created with the Pico-8 engine and released in 2016. It features all the air-dashing, strawberry gathering, and demand for perfect platforming you would recognise, but was more dialled back in animation and these days feels like a proof of concept. Naturally, though, having games with the same name is confusing, so the older of the two became known as Celeste Classic – phew.
Now, though, to celebrate the third anniversary of Celeste, the team at Extremely OK Games has released a follow-up to Celeste Classic. It’s called Celeste 2: Lani’s Trek and the team put it together in just three days.