California has hit a new record for clean energy. Solar, wind, hydropower and other carbon-free sources made up 67% of the state’s retail electricity supply in 2023, the most recent year that data is available, according to new statistics released Monday by the California Energy Commission.

California Public Utility Commission claims the current solar metering program is a subsidy to wealthy property owners that is paid for by normal electricity rates.

(Reuters) -Clean energy companies are asking California leaders for help getting their projects going before changes to federal subsidies in President Donald Trump's sweeping new tax and spending law make them more expensive and difficult to build.

Experts are now debating if the elimination will significantly hurt the industry or if solar adoption developed such momentum that it will continue to grow on its own. Trump’s bill won’t go into effect until Dec.

The California Senate Energy, Utilities and Communications Committee voted to preserve solar net energy metering agreements for Californians that sell or transfer their homes.

California’s millionth solar system was a long time coming for Bernadette Del Chiaro, who lobbied the Legislature to approve Schwarzenegger’s Million Solar Roofs initiative in 2006.

Explore why some California farmers are calling for a halt to the conversion of agricultural fields into solar panel farms.

Opponents say wholesale conversion of farmland into solar farms will devastate rural communities that depend on agriculture for jobs.

Data from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory show that 12% of California solar adopters in 2019 had incomes below $50,000, and an additional 29% had incomes between $50,000 and $100,000 — up ...