The California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC or Commission) is weighing party comments on implementation of Assembly Bill (AB) 2143. Enacted last year, AB 2143 will take effect on January 1, 2024. This bill extends existing prevailing wage requirements for public works to the construction of any renewable electrical generation facility, and any associated battery storage
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California ISO Survives the Summer with No Blackouts; Battery Energy Storage Beginning to Play Larger Role
The California ISO held its final Summer 2021 Readiness Update call on September 24. As reported on the call, the California ISO managed to get through summer 2021 without any load-shedding events, in contrast to last summer, when load-shedding events occurred on two days in August. The California ISO; California energy regulatory agencies, including the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) and California Energy Commission (CEC); and the Governor’s office have spent considerable effort to avoid any outages for both this summer and summer 2022. However, as California ISO Senior Vice President and Chief Operating Officer Mark Rothleder explained, California experienced less extreme weather this summer, which helped the state avoid outages. Although July was challenging, due to a West-wide heatwave and transmission impacted by the Bootleg Fire, August and September were more mild. In 2020, load peaked at 47,121 megawatts (MW) on August 18, at 15:57. In 2021, load peaked at 43,982 MW on September 8, at 17:50. By comparison, the California ISO’s highest peak was 50,270 MW in 2006.
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Energy Storage Is Coming to New Jersey
The New Jersey legislature recently passed a bill (the “Bill”) that would set a goal of reaching 600 megawatts of energy storage capacity by 2021 and 2 gigawatts by 2030.[1] This represents one of the largest energy storage implementation goals in the country and likely signals the coming of a large new market for…