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- Oct 1, 2026
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Want solar but don't own a roof? California just legalized plug-in panels, no permission required (opens the original)
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This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. See more from the L.A. Times in Google Search. Set us as preferred California renters, apartment dwellers and others who can’t install full rooftop solar systems are one step closer to lowering their electric bills with smaller plug-in solar panels. Gov. Gavin Newsom on Wednesday signed the Plug and Play Solar Act, a bill by Sen. Scott Wiener that will allow anyone — renter or homeowner — to set small panels on
Another battery fire erupts at Moss Landing, where some units are still charged (opens the original)
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This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. See more from the L.A. Times in Google Search. Set us as preferred Almost two years after a massive battery fire in Monterey County displaced 1,200 people and smoldered for days, spewing toxic gas into the air, the same facility is burning again. Fire crews responded to a structure fire at the Moss Landing Power Plant, owned by Vistra Corp., around 6:15 a.m. Friday, according to the California Department of For
As the coast begins to crumble, the clock ticks on moving San Onofre's radioactive waste (opens the original)
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This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. See more from the L.A. Times in Google Search. Set us as preferred As parts of the Southern California coastline crumbled into the sea, slammed by intense waves and flooding in recent days, oceanographer Kim McCoy had one thing on his mind: the nuclear waste set in concrete on the beach near San Clemente at the shuttered San Onofre nuclear power plant. “Rising sea levels, storm waves, El Niño which increases wa
Solar power for renters would get easier with two bills now on the governor's desk (opens the original)
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This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. See more from the L.A. Times in Google Search. Set us as preferred The California Legislature just passed two bills that advocates say will greatly improve access to small-scale solar for renters, people in condos and others who don’t have access to their roofs or can’t afford a full rooftop array. On Sunday night, lawmakers approved Assembly Bill 1813, a third-time effort to force the California Public Utiliti
California sues Trump administration, developer over deal to walk away from Morro Bay wind power (opens the original)
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This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. See more from the L.A. Times in Google Search. Set us as preferred After the Trump administration paid California offshore wind developers to abandon their leases and pursue oil and gas development instead, the state is fighting back. In a lawsuit filed Friday in U.S. District Court for the California Northern District, state Atty. Gen. Rob Bonta and the California Energy Commission allege that one of the deals
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