California Energy Commission

California Energy Commission

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The California Energy Commission is the state's primary energy policy and planning agency. Created by the Legislature in 1974 and located in Sacramento, the Commission responsibilities include:
  • Forecasting future energy needs and keeping historical energy data.
  • Licensing thermal power plants 50 megawatts or larger.
  • Promoting energy efficiency by setting the state's appliance and building efficiency standards and working with local government to enforce those standards.
  • Supporting public interest energy research that advances energy science and technology through research, development, and demonstration programs.
  • Supporting renewable energy by providing market support to existing, new, and emerging renewable technologies; providing incentives for small wind and fuel cell electricity systems; and providing incentives for solar electricity systems in new home construction.
  • Developing and implementing the state Alternative and Renewable Fuel and Vehicle Technology Program to reduce the state's petroleum dependency and help attain the state climate change policies.
  • Administering more than $300 million in American Reinvestment and Recovery Act funding through the state energy program, the energy efficiency conservation and block grant program; the energy efficiency appliance rebate program and the energy assurance and emergency program.
  • Planning for and directing state response to energy emergencies.
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2023
28 Mar 2023

Battery Electric & Hydrogen Fuel Cell Trains 2023-2043

IDTechEx Report: Luke Gear and Dr Conor O'Brien
24 Feb 2023

Second-life Electric Vehicle Batteries 2023-2033

IDTechEx Report: Conrad Nichols
16 Jan 2023

ReJoule

ReJoule is based in Signal Hill, California, US and operates in the electric vehicle (EV) battery diagnostics market. It is a battery tech-startup, with battery lifecycle management and grading technology solutions.
2022
15 Dec 2022

RePurpose Energy

RePurpose Energy was founded in 2019 to commercialize almost a decade of research at the University of California, Davis, on used battery testing, reassembly, and controls.
1 Nov 2022

Dynamic WPT

Dynamic Wireless Power Transfer (WPT) is a startup based in California, US, working on commercialising high power dynamic wireless charging for trucks, buses, vans, and locomotives. IDTechEx spoke to its Founder and CTO, Dave Cook, to learn more about their technology and applications.
28 Oct 2022

Li-ion Battery Market 2023-2033: Technologies, Players, Applications, Outlooks and Forecasts

IDTechEx Report: Dr Alex Holland
11 Oct 2022

Wireless Charging Market for Electric Vehicles 2023-2033: Technology, Players and Forecasts

IDTechEx Report: Shazan Siddiqi and Dr James Jeffs
22 Aug 2022

Thin Film & Flexible Photovoltaics 2023-2033

IDTechEx Report: Dr Matthew Dyson
25 Jul 2022

Zelos Energy

Zelos Energy are a California-based company developing an aqueous manganese-zinc battery.
7 Jul 2022

Electric and Fuel Cell Trucks 2023-2043

IDTechEx Report: Luke Gear and Shazan Siddiqi
29 Jun 2022

GreenFire Energy

GreenFire Energy Inc. is a United States-based company deploying a closed-loop technology to improve the harvesting of geothermal energy. In March 2022, IDTechEx Technology Analyst Dr Hydra Rodrigues spoke with John Muir, Senior Vice President of Business Development at GreenFire Energy, and Hollis Chin, VP of Marketing at GreenFire Energy.
14 Jun 2022

Perovskite Photovoltaics 2023-2033

IDTechEx Report:
16 May 2022

Battery Swapping for Electric Vehicles 2022-2032: Technology, Players and Forecasts

IDTechEx Report: Shazan Siddiqi and Dr James Edmondson
4 May 2022

Swift Solar

Swift Solar is a company that works on perovskite PV. It was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in California, USA. This profile is based on a discussion with the CEO and co-founder, Dr Joel Jean.
9 Mar 2022

Carbon Nanotubes 2022-2032: Market, Technology, Players

IDTechEx Report: Dr Richard Collins and Dr Alex Holland
2 Feb 2022

Future Stationary Energy Storage: Hydrogen, Batteries, Gravity, Gas, Other 2022-2042

IDTechEx Report: Dr Alex Holland
28 Jan 2022

Wind Power and Green Hydrogen in German Town of Haren

The town of Haren aims to be completely self-sufficient with green energy. New storage units in the H2 hub enable a meaningful use of excess electricity from peak times. The 16 wind turbines of the community wind farm Fehndorf-Lindloh are connected to an innovative PEM electrolysis system, and an additional battery storage system in combination with a superordinate energy mangement system.
24 Jan 2022

Funding for Megawatt Truck Charging Along California Freight Corridors

The Electric Power Research Institute and CALSTART have been awarded $13 million from the California Energy Commission to jump start California's high-power charging infrastructure for medium and heavy-duty vehicles. The two organizations will lead a first-of-its-kind collaboration to launch the country's first zero-emission, freight-charging corridor network.
2021
13 Dec 2021

Advanced Li-ion and Beyond Lithium Batteries 2022-2032: Technologies, Players, Trends, Markets

IDTechEx Report: Dr Alex Holland and Dr Xiaoxi He
12 Nov 2021

Charging Infrastructure for Electric Vehicles and Fleets 2022-2032

IDTechEx Report: Shazan Siddiqi and Luke Gear