Sentences with phrase «california energy crisis»

While Arden and other large office building owners such as Houston - based Hines led the office sector's efforts to become energy efficient, the sharp rise in prices and shocks such as the California energy crisis of 2001 have made energy awareness a more prominent issue throughout the commercial real estate industry, Lyle says.

MORE ABOUT S.DAVID FREEMAN - In January 2001, in response to the California energy crisis, Freeman was appointed by Governor Gray Davis to serve as the Chairman of the California Consumer Power and Conservation Financing Authority and as Governor Davis» senior energy advisor.

But if the report's findings are accurate, industry lawyers say they could amount to violations of federal law — and become one of the biggest price manipulation scandals since the California energy crisis.

That summer, the California energy crisis erupted, causing natural gas prices to triple — along with electricity made with gas.

Not exact matches

But as this week's Oroville, California dam crisis illustrates, hydroelectric energy technology comes with a major yet infrequent risk: Catastrophic collapse and flooding.

California's chief utility regulator is warning that the state could find itself in the throes of another energy crisis if it doesn't address the...

The energy crisis, now focused on California but containing threats for the rest of the country, provides an occasion for dramatic change.

«When they tried to fix prices in California it resulted in an electricity crisis and widespread blackouts,» energy and climate change secretary Ed Davey said.

Prior to that she served in the federal EPA, California's EPA and as energy advisor to former California Gov. Gray Davis, perhaps most well known in this arena for presiding over the state energy crisis that was exacerbated by Enron.

Also named was «Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room,» which uses tape recordings to document that the California energy «crisis,» among other things, was deliberately caused by Enron to generate desperately needed profits.

Innovation must receive greater emphasis in the debate; less the «coming clean energy crisis» that University of California, San Diego Professor David Victor warns of will come true.

Launched in 2001 in response to the 2000 - 2001 energy crisis and market failure that resulted in widespread grid outages across the state, California's SGIP is one of the longest running distributed, «green» energy incentive programs in the world.

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FECR) forensic audit of the Oroville Dam Spillway crisis project found that failures were due to inadequate California Department of Water Resources (DWR) maintenance, repair of cracks, thin concrete slabs, poor drainage, and use of weathered rock.

After California suffered a 2000 - era energy crisis, the state forced utilities to comply with a Renewables Portfolio Standard in 2002.

Michael Picker, president of the California Public Utilities Commission, is sounding the alarm bell, warning that California might be at risk of a second energy crises.

The Great Plains have been relatively great throughout the recovery for many reasons — cheaper land, cheap wages, service sectors insulated from the housing - finance crisis that leveled parts of California, Florida, Arizona, and Nevada — but energy has helped a lot.

San Francisco Chronicle Energy Reporter, David R. Baker explains how Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger put California on the front lines of the world's fight against the climate crisis.

In the early 1990s, California endured an energy crisis.

In his new book Green Illusions, Ozzie Zehner, visiting scholar at the University of California, Berkeley, writes that there never really was an energy crisis.

TOM TURRENTINE, Director, PHEV Research Center, University of California at Davis, in the final remarks at the conference, said, «We also heard from Andy Grove just how serious energy security is — as somebody who actually grew up behind the Iron Curtain for a few years and has a certain perspective on what happens in a crisis.»

One can hardly fail to notice that California is experiencing an energy crisis after decades of embracing, supporting, and subsidizing windmills.