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California ISO Board Approves Plan to Fortify SoCal Grid
2014-03-26 16:46:00| Transmission & Distribution World
The California Independent System Operator Corporation Board of Governors has approved grid infrastructure upgrades that focus on the reliability needs in southern California in the wake of the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station (SONGS) early retirement in June 2013. read more
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Honda opens Smart Home US in California; produces more energy than it consumes; direct DC-DC EV charging
2014-03-25 19:30:42| Green Car Congress
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In California, Demand for Groundwater Causing Huge Swaths of Land to Sink
2014-03-25 16:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
National Geographic: Extensive groundwater pumping is causing a huge swath of central California to sink, in some spots at an alarming rate, the U.S. Geological Survey reports. With California in the throes of a major drought and demand for groundwater rising, officials and landowners are racing to respond to the process known as subsidence. Some areas of the San Joaquin Valley, the backbone of California's vast agricultural industry, are subsiding at the fastest rates ever measured, said Michelle Sneed, a U.S. Geological...
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California drought is ready for a Silicon Valley moment and futuristic farms
2014-03-25 14:58:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: We are ranchers. And as ranchers in Northern California, we are intimately familiar with the impact of a drought as extreme as the one we are enduring right now and how it affects the food you eat. Youve heard about the shorter showers, the intermittent toilet flushing. Youve heard less about the expensive hay, being fed to fewer animals. But have you heard about the innovations that could reverse it all? Indeed, how familiar are you with Californias water crisis, the worst in recorded...
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California hit by worst drought in 500 years
2014-03-25 09:57:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Agence France-Presse: California is now in its third year of a drought that may turn out to be its worst ever. To make matters worse, the state has just had its warmest winter on record, depriving its parched land of snowmelt in the spring. Some communities are at risk of running out of drinking water, while those worst hit are ranchers and farmers. A lack of green grass means some are having to sell cows they can't afford, while the dry spell may force arable farmers to leave idle half a million acres of cropland.
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