To meet its climate goals, California will need to triple renewable energy generation from wind, solar farms and rooftop solar, writes columnist latimesskelton.
Or fewer tomatoes and — heaven forbid — a reduction in almonds.
“The San Joaquin Valley is facing a monumental shift in land use over the next two decades,” wrote PPIC water experts Andrew Ayres and Curtis Seymour. Newsom can maneuver the California Public Utilities Commission toward a compromise that’s fair to solar owners, low-income ratepayers and the utilities, while expanding clean energy, columnist George Skelton writes.
“And solar is very profitable. As a crop, it has a very good return — on a par with some high-value tree crops. If not more profitable.” But there’s a very big hitch. There isn’t enough electric grid capacity to transmit much more solar to consumers.
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