California Is Showing How a Big State Can Power Itself Without Fossil Fuels

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Bill McKibben on the efforts being made in California to use renewable energy instead of fossil fuels to power the state—a model that has the potential to succeed elsewhere.

A good place to view this feat is from Mark Jacobson’s home—a light-filled two-story modernist house that he shares with his family at the end of a classic suburban cul-de-sac on the edge of the campus of Stanford University, where he is a professor of civil and environmental engineering. In part, that’s because the house is an energy-efficient showpiece; its solar panels produce more than enough energy to cover what he uses, though it is still tied to the grid.

Earlier this month, Governor Kathy Hochul, of New York, killed off a congestion-pricing scheme designed to toll automobile traffic into Manhattan and raise money for the city’s mass-transit system. In California, Governor Gavin Newsom has come under fire for cutting back support to rooftop and community solar power in favor of vast utility-scale projects. Meanwhile, Donald Trump has promised, if elected in November, to “drill drill drill,” and to end offshore wind on “Day One.

 

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