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How do you like your higher electricity bill?

On CalWatchDog.com, for four years Wayne Lusvardi has been detailing in hundreds of articles the effective dismantling of California’s and America’s old electricity system — nuclear, coal and now even gas; and its replacement with “renewable” sources — wind, solar

Ivanpah solar power shifts pollution to the desert

Wayne Lusvardi April 25, 2014

This is Part 1 of a two-part series on Ivanpah solar power. It’s supposed to be the latest thing in solar power. Gov. Jerry Brown and other state politicians tout the new Ivanpah Concentrated Solar Thermal Power Plant in the Mojave

SF Mayor Lee fights supervisors over green power

Wayne Lusvardi April 25, 2014

It’s green power vs. greenbacks. A political power battle is brewing in San Francisco over which entity of government is going to carry out the local implementation of the mandate by the state of California for 33 percent renewable energy

San Bernardino bankruptcy shows pensions crowding out services

Wayne Lusvardi April 23, 2014

In his novel “The Sun Also Rises,” California novelist Ernest Hemingway wrote, “How do you go bankrupt? Two ways: Gradually, then suddenly.” Case in point: the City of San Bernardino, which filed for bankruptcy in 2012. The pace of municipal bankruptcy

Split-roll tax bill strikes at Prop. 13

Wayne Lusvardi April 17, 2014

Almost every year in the California Legislature Proposition 13 becomes a target for those seeking higher taxes. The 1978 tax-limitation measure, among other things, requires a two-thirds vote for local tax increases. As budget maneuvers heat up in the

Why is GOP rebuffing Sen. Feinstein’s drought bill?

Wayne Lusvardi April 16, 2014

U.S. Senator Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., is renewing her call to Republican senators to vote for her revised compromise drought bill, S. 2016, the California Emergency Drought Relief Act of 2014. Feinstein claims her bill is five votes short of the 60 needed

Silicon Valley and Bakersfield Oil Patch lead CA jobs recovery

Wayne Lusvardi April 13, 2014

What cities can California look to for jobs growth to pull it out of its laggard growth since the 2008 economic recession? A new online economic tracking tool called Metro Monitor by the Brookings Institution ranks metropolitan areas in the

Will new community power beat PG&E prices?

Wayne Lusvardi April 9, 2014

Sonoma Clean Power officials and advocates got a charge from recent news that 95 percent of county eligible ratepayers will be switched to their electricity service from Pacific Gas & Electric. The switch was automatic, although ratepayers could opt out

CA history shows droughts don’t last

Wayne Lusvardi April 4, 2014

Gov. Jerry Brown, state Sen. Fran Pavley, D-Agoura Hills, and other legislators are pushing for groundwater regulation during the drought. Since October 4, 2013, the California Water Resources Control Board has been floating a discussion draft of a Groundwater Workplan

CA green power keeps shifting costs to ratepayers

Wayne Lusvardi April 3, 2014

California Energy Markets recently reported that three California cities just won agreement from regulators to reclassify solar power transmission costs as distribution. The cities are Pasadena, Riverside and Azusa. That means the cities reaped a 25 percent reduction in long-term solar power contracts. This seemingly arcane