Looking to avoid power blackouts, California may turn to the one energy source it's otherwise desperate to get rid of — fossil fuels.
California gets most of its energy from renewable sources during the day, but doesn't yet have the storage to dispatch enough solar power after the sun goes down. The bill aims to speed up the building of more renewable energy and storage facilities by removing local governments from permitting decisions. Supply-chain issues are also slowing down building.Climate change Catch-22
State energy officials warned earlier this year that the state risks an energy shortfall equivalent to what it takes to power 1.3 million homes on the summer's hottest days. Newsom and lawmakers are desperate to avoid a scenario like August 2020, when hundreds of thousands of people temporarily lost power because there wasn't enough supply to go around.
"Those are tough decisions that we're all going to have to wrestle with," said senator Henry Stern, a Democrat from Los Angeles County."What this bill is doing is buying time." "The state is saying we need to rely on fossil power and they're not fully admitting that it's because of this lack of ambition," said Alexis Sutterman, energy equity manager for the California Environmental Justice Alliance.
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