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Largest California Refinery Hit With Strike Amid Record-High Gas Prices
Largest California Refinery Hit With Strike Amid Record-High Gas Prices Hundreds of Chevron Corp. refinery workers in the San Francisco Bay Area went on strike Monday following a breakdown in talks between the oil major and the United Steelworkers (USW) union on a contract agreement. At least 500 workers at a gasoline, diesel, jet fuel, […]
California’s hydroelectric generation affected by historic drought
California’s hydroelectric generation affected by historic drought Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration, based on U.S. Drought Monitor Most of the western United States is experiencing intense and historic drought conditions. California is one of the most severely affected states. As of June 22, 2021, 100% of the state is experiencing some degree of drought. About 33% of the […]
California Gas Prices Reach New Record High
Gas prices nearing $5.00 a gallon are displayed at Chevron and Shell stations in San Francisco, Calif., on July 12, 2021. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images) California Gas Prices Reach New Record High The average price of a regular gallon of gasoline in California reached a record high on Monday as sticker shock continues to anger drivers paying more […]
Study Bolsters Case That Climate Change Is Driving Many California Wildfires
Study Bolsters Case That Climate Change Is Driving Many California Wildfires Link Seen to Fivefold Jump in Area Burned Against a backdrop of long-term rises in temperature in recent decades, California has seen ever higher spikes in seasonal wildfires, and, in the last two years, a string of disastrous, record-setting blazes. This has led scientists, politicians […]
California Utility Cutting Power to 51,000 Customers Amid Dangerous Wildfire Conditions
In this image from a U.S. Forest Service wildfire monitoring camera, plumes of smoke rise from the Caldor Fire in El Dorado County, Calif., on Aug. 17, 2021. (U.S. Forest Service/ALERTWildfire Network via AP) California Utility Cutting Power to 51,000 Customers Amid Dangerous Wildfire Conditions The nation’s largest utility announced on Tuesday evening that it […]
Dixie Wildfire Becomes Largest Active Fire In US, Charing Nearly Half Million Acres
Dixie Wildfire Becomes Largest Active Fire In US, Charing Nearly Half Million Acres The Dixie Wildfire continues to ravage hundreds of thousands of acres, fueled by strong winds and bone-dry vegetation in Northern California. The wildfire has become the third-largest in California history, and the largest in the US as more than a hundred large […]
Lake Oroville Hydro Power Plant Shut Down For First Time Due To Megadrought
Lake Oroville Hydro Power Plant Shut Down For First Time Due To Megadrought One of California’s most important hydroelectric plants has ceased operations due to falling water levels, according to the Department of Water Resources (DWR). On Wednesday, Lake Oroville fell to a record low of 642-feet above mean sea level. By Thursday, the lake stood at […]
California Grid Strained As Power Shortfalls Loom
California Grid Strained As Power Shortfalls Loom Amid another heat wave across the Western half of the US, California issued a stage-2 power-grid emergency alert Friday and urged customers to conserve power as temperatures surpassed 100 degrees, according to The Sacramento Bee. The state’s grid operator, California Independent System Operator (ISO), issued the alert on Friday, […]
California Begs For More Electricity As Shift To Renewable Power Leaves State In The Dark
California Begs For More Electricity As Shift To Renewable Power Leaves State In The Dark
Blackouts Loom in California as Electricity Prices Are ‘Absolutely Exploding’
Blackouts Loom in California as Electricity Prices Are ‘Absolutely Exploding’ Two inexorable energy trends are underway in California: soaring electricity prices and ever-worsening reliability – and both trends bode ill for the state’s low- and middle-income consumers. Last week, the state’s grid operator, the California Independent System Operator, issued a “flex alert” that asked the state’s consumers to reduce […]
Megadrought Could Force California’s Lake Oroville Hydroelectric Power Plant To Shut Down
Megadrought Could Force California’s Lake Oroville Hydroelectric Power Plant To Shut Down One of California’s most critical hydroelectric plants is at risk of closing for the first time in five decades as water levels continue to sink. A megadrought and scorching heat, both worsened by La Nina weather effects, have depleted some of the water […]
PG&E Warns Of More Blackouts As California Wildfire Season Begins
PG&E Warns Of More Blackouts As California Wildfire Season Begins It has been an arid spring in California, and that’s causing alarm with Pacific Gas and Electric Co. executives who have said this week they will need more frequent power cuts to customers in Northern California to prevent wildfires. PG&E’s chief risk officer Sumeet Singh told WSJ that California’s […]
Extreme Drought Puts California’s Power Supply At Risk
Extreme Drought Puts California’s Power Supply At Risk A more severe than usual drought in California has depleted reservoirs and lakes, including the ones feeding some of the largest hydropower facilities, putting the state again at risk of power outages during heat waves this summer. Last year, residents in California went through rolling outages as there was […]
California declares drought emergency across vast swath of state
California declares drought emergency across vast swath of state Majority of counties now under emergency declaration as California faces extensive dry spell and dwindling water supply Houseboats are dwarfed by the steep banks of Lake Oroville last month in Oroville, California. Photograph: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images California has expanded a drought emergency declaration to a large swath of the […]
Kinder Morgan Pipeline Spills up to 42,000 Gallons of Gasoline Into California Drainage Canal
Kinder Morgan Pipeline Spills up to 42,000 Gallons of Gasoline Into California Drainage Canal A pipeline leaked tens of thousands of gallons of gasoline into a waterway in Walnut Creek, California. California Office of Spill Prevention and Response / Facebook A Kinder Morgan pipeline leaked tens of thousands of gallons of gasoline into a waterway in Walnut Creek, California, prompting […]
