California added record clean energy — can it keep it up?

is a senior science reporter covering energy and the environment with more than a decade of experience. She is also the host of Hell or High Water: When Disaster Hits Home , a podcast from Vox Media and Audible Originals. For three years in a row, California has added a record amount of new clean energy capacity. The amount of renewable energy and storage (i.e. batteries) added since 2020 is roughly equivalent to how much electricity the state has used on average on a daily basis — around 25,000 megawatts, according to new data from Governor Gavin Newsom’s office and the California Public Utilities Commission shared with The Verge. California is expecting that growth to continue, although the road ahead is looking increasingly bumpy with the Trump administration trying to make it harder to build new green energy infrastructure in the US. “We’ve never added so much capacity to our grid in such a short amount of time.” “We’ve never added so much capacity to our grid in such a short a ... Read full article.