blog post Crisis Communication Suffers During Natural Disasters By Jeffrey Mount Jan 12, 2023 Jan 12, 2023 ... Power poles snapped in half in rural Sacramento County, showing that these powerful storm cells were packing winds of more than 75 mph, ...
blog post The Promise of a Wet January By Jeffrey Mount Jan 5, 2023 Jan 5, 2023 ... The combination of high rainfall rates and winds causes urban and river flooding, as well as landslides and debris flows (especially in ...
blog post California’s 2022 Fire Season: “A Remarkably Different Year” By Sarah Bardeen Dec 12, 2022 Dec 12, 2022 ... Luckily that heat didn't come with wind this year. We have seen more prescribed burns and thinning in the last five years, and some of these ...
blog post California’s Water and Energy Systems Are Inextricably Linked By Alvar Escriva-Bou, Gokce Sencan, Andrew Ayres Dec 6, 2022 Dec 6, 2022 ... And perhaps the greatest boon to drought resilience is the growth of solar and wind power, which use little to no water in generation.
Fact Sheet Water and Energy in California By Alvar Escriva-Bou, Gokce Sencan, Andrew Ayres Dec 5, 2022 Dec 6, 2022 ... The growth of solar and wind power can boost the electricity sector's drought resilience by minimizing water use.
blog post The Troubled History—and Uncertain Future—of the Salton Sea By Sarah Bardeen Nov 22, 2022 Nov 22, 2022 ... As the sea shrinks, winds pick up sediments from the increasingly exposed dry lake bed and spread them into surrounding communities, ...
blog post Video: Solar Development in the San Joaquin Valley By Sarah Bardeen Nov 9, 2022 Nov 9, 2022 ... ... says her county is pretty far along the renewable path, with some 157,000 acres of wind and solar. The county's solar projects currently ...
event Solar Development in the San Joaquin Valley Nov 1, 2022 She has permitted over 18,896 MW of renewable energy wind and solar projects with over 4,100 MWh of battery storage in operation and 2,000 MWh in progress ...
Report Solar Energy and Groundwater in the San Joaquin Valley By Andrew Ayres, Annabelle Rosser, Ellen Hanak, Alvar Escriva-Bou ... Oct 25, 2022 The CAISO “Starting Point” scenario identifies future resources that will require transmission development (e.g., offshore wind energy, out-of-state ...
blog post Commentary: Drought Requires New Strategies for Managing Cropland By Andrew Ayres, Caitlin Peterson Aug 9, 2022 Aug 9, 2022 ... Agricultural operations and wind erosion are two of the largest sources of dust in the valley, and maintaining vegetative cover is one of ...