California

Stories about California (97)

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  San Joaquin County Freezes Data Center Approvals for 45 Days, But Its Own Power Study Needs Six Months

  October 7, 2026 · Policy & Markets

  2 sources San Joaquin County supervisors voted 5-0 to freeze data center approvals in unincorporated areas for 45 days. The county's own September notice puts the underlying study at about…

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  US Storage Hit a Record 18.9 GWh in Q2 as Installed Power Capacity Fell 7 Percent

  September 23, 2026 · Analysis

  3 sources US battery storage installed a record 18.9 GWh in the second quarter of 2026 while installed power capacity fell 7 percent, as average system duration stretched to 3.5…

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  Five West Coast Governments Back a 20-Station Electric Truck Corridor on I-5, With No New Money Attached

  September 8, 2026 · EVs

  3 sources California, Oregon, Washington, British Columbia and Baja California launched the BC2BC ZEV Corridor on August 26, placing 20 electric truck charging stations along Interstate 5. The five governments…

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  Heron Power Picks Morgan Hill for a 40 GW Power Conversion Plant Backed by a $26.4 Million California Credit

  August 18, 2026 · Megawatt Charging & Power Conversion

  4 sources Heron Power will convert a 286,000-square-foot warehouse in Morgan Hill, California into its first factory, building 5 MW power conversion units at more than 40 GW a year.

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  Willdan Wins $31 Million Contract to Take a Carlsbad Wastewater Plant to 100 Percent On-Site Power

  July 21, 2026 · Emergency & Local Government

  5 sources Encina Wastewater Authority hired Willdan Group under a $31 million design-build contract to add a linear generator, battery storage and a microgrid controller that carry its Carlsbad treatment…

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  Bosch Finalizes $225 Million CHIPS Award for $2 Billion Roseville Silicon-Carbide Fab

  July 16, 2026 · News

  4 sources Bosch finalized a $225 million CHIPS Program funding agreement with the U.S. Commerce Department to convert its Roseville, California fab into a silicon-carbide chip plant, with first commercial…

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  Fluence to Supply U.S.-Made Batteries and Build Avantus’s 800 MWh Rexford 2 Storage Project in California

  July 13, 2026 · Energy Storage

  4 sources Fluence will supply a domestic-content battery system and build Avantus's 800 MWh Rexford 2 storage project in Tulare County, California, with cells and modules made in Utah, South…

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  NYC Drops the Battery Storage Review Threshold to 1 kWh and Requires Engineer Peer Review

  June 9, 2026 · Power Quality

  3 sources New York City now regulates indoor battery storage directly, and its 1 kilowatt-hour threshold pulls small commercial systems into a permit process that needs an independent engineer to…

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  MN8 Energy Brings 100 MW / 400 MWh Pome Battery Online

  June 1, 2026 · Energy Storage

  MN8 Energy announced commercial operation of its 100 MW / 400 MWh Pome standalone battery in Poway, California, under a 10-year tolling agreement with Sonoma Clean Power in CAISO.

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  Why Neighboring Power Grids Can’t Just Send Electricity Where It’s

  June 1, 2026 · Analysis

  Three nearly independent US power grids block emergency electricity sharing across regions, leaving major outages without relief from neighboring areas.