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.

California considered breaking long-standing solar net metering contracts, but the Senate voted to drop that provision after public backlash.

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

Increasingly sharp internal debate focuses on what should happen as the acreage devoted to crops and livestock shrinks.

Despite California's expansion of clean energy use, Texas leads in producing the most electricity from renewable energy sources.

State data shows 67% of California's retail electricity sales in 2023 came from renewable and zero-carbon electricity generation.

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 ...

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