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GE signs its largest battery energy storage deal to date; 30MW Li-ion system in California
2015-08-24 00:55:36| Green Car Congress
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California pushes forward on renewable power
2015-08-24 00:25:54| Energy - Topix.net
At a Pacific Gas and Electric power plant east of San Francisco, greenhouse gases flow from a stack as the air shimmers from heat, with no dirty cloud of pollution in sight. In the distance, wind turbines spin slowly under a cloudy sky.
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Drought Conditions in California are Causing Severe Subsidence
2015-08-23 21:04:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Nature World: As California continues pumping groundwater to combat the historic drought they are facing, land in the San Joaquin Valley is sinking at an increased rate of 2 inches more per month. The California Department of Water Resources released a NASA report illustrating their findings. "Because of increased pumping, groundwater levels are reaching record lows -- up to 100 feet (30 meters) lower than previous records," Department of Water Resources Director Mark Cowin said in a statement. "As extensive...
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California drought could be the new normal
2015-08-23 17:33:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Fresno Bee: Reports of California's demise are as predictable as they are exaggerated whenever the Golden State endures one of its regular disasters. Earthquakes, fires, floods, the Great Recession and more strike, and we survive. But two reports on the drought last week ought to give us pause about how we use and misuse water, even as a third in the journal Geophysical Research Letters drives home the bad news about global warming, estimating that climate change has worsened California's drought by up to...
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Can California meet its ambitious greenhouse gas goals?
2015-08-23 15:25:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
LA Times: When President Obama announced his controversial and ambitious Clean Power Plan to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from power plants, Californians gave a collective yawn. The president's goal of generating 28% of the nation's electricity from renewable resources by 2030 paled next to California's push, which began nearly a decade ago, to fuel 33% of its electrical needs with solar, wind and other renewables by 2020. The state's commitment to a serious climate change policy began in 2006 with the...
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