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California sets ambitious clean energy goals: net zero emissions and 100% clean energy by 2045, leading the nation once again.

Southern California projects help state achieve ambitious clean energy goals

California, once again, is leading the nation with its ambitious clean energy goals, which include calling for net zero emissions and 100% clean energy by 2045. Success will require exponential growth in battery storage facilities, solar power, electric vehicles, smart buildings and more – fueled by investment by both the private and public sector.

Perhaps surprisingly, one of the leading businesses helping with this transition is our company, Prologis, which is the global leader in logistics real estate. Actually, we are uniquely positioned to accelerate clean energy projects throughout Southern California to both serve our customers and help the state meet its far-reaching goals. Southern California is Prologis’ largest market, and the company has adopted- ed our own ambitious goal to have net zero emissions across our value chain by 2040 – five years earlier than the state’s climate plan.

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Source: Los Angeles Business Journal

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The CPUC approved a plan that will set the state on a course to adding 86,000 megawatts of new resources to the grid by 2035.

California ups renewables target again with new plan to add 85GW by 2035

California’s already hugely ambitious clean energy goals have just gotten even bigger. Now the state’s utilities, regulators, clean-energy developers and transmission grid planners must figure out how to achieve the colossal new buildout needed to meet these goals.

On Thursday, the California Public Utilities Commission approved a plan that will set the state on a course to adding 86,000 megawatts of new resources to the grid by 2035. That’s ​“more than a doubling of the nameplate capacity” of 75,000 megawatts that constitutes the state’s existing resource mix, CPUC President Alice Reynolds said during Thursday’s meeting.

The new integrated resource plan calls for 54,000 megawatts of new renewable resources, most of it solar power, as well as wind power built inside and outside the state’s borders. It also includes more than 28,000 MW of batteries to store that power when it’s produced so it can be used when the state’s grid needs it.

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Source: Canary Media

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With California’s power woes apparent, Western grid regionalization has been raised as a potential path to address these related concerns.

What does Western grid regionalization mean for California?

California’s grid reliability struggles have intensified in recent years as extreme summer heat strains the system and threatens power outages. The state’s grid reliability is also inextricably linked to issues of improving energy affordability and achieving California’s ambitious clean energy goals. With California’s power woes apparent, Western grid regionalization has been raised as a potential path to address these related concerns.

Western grid regionalization is the idea of better connecting and coordinating power grids throughout the West. It’s not a new concept. It gained traction in California in 2018, although that particular effort fell short. But once again, the debate is becoming topical as another push for grid regionalization gains momentum.

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Source: Clean Technica

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