![]() ![]() But for years, critics say, the agency was asleep at the wheel, fretting about saddling utility ratepayers with unnecessary costs even as it became clear that a power supply crunch loomed - a crunch that would only get worse with the planned closure of several gas-fired power plants and the Diablo Canyon nuclear reactors.įor more details, read the story I wrote ahead of the vote. The commission has been scrambling lately to order those companies to secure supplies that can keep the lights on during hot summer nights, when solar farms stop generating. Making matters worse, in the view of many energy experts, is the Public Utilities Commission - the state agency responsible for approving power purchases by monopoly utility companies such as Southern California Edison and Pacific Gas & Electric. It’s a crisis made worse by climate change - hotter heat waves, higher electricity demand, hydropower dams hammered by drought - and also by California’s response to climate change, which involves shutting down fossil fuel plants and replacing them with solar and wind farms, which aren’t quite as good at supplying electricity right when it’s most needed. The Golden State has an energy crisis - not like the sudden, acute crisis two decades ago, when market manipulation prompted massive blackouts, but rather a slower, longer-lasting crisis in which California has had more and more trouble keeping the lights on. That’s a mouthful, so let’s back up a minute. ![]() Sign up here to get it in your inbox.Ĭalifornia lawmakers passed a sweeping, polarizing energy bill last night, making it easier for state officials to buy electricity from beachfront gas plants and diesel generators, and to approve solar and wind farms over the objections of local governments. Hematite Dr.This is the June 30, 2022, edition of Boiling Point, a weekly newsletter about climate change and the environment in California and the American West. Indian Rosewood Ebiara English Brown Oak Figured Bubinga Figured Katalox Figured Makore Figured Mango Figured Purpleheart Figured Walnut Figured Zebrawood Flame Birch Gaboon Ebony Genuine Mahogany Goncalo Alves Granadillo Grey Box Burl Guanacaste (Parota) Hard Maple Hard Maple Burl Hickory Holly Honduras Rosewood Honduras Rosewood Burl Honey Locust Indian Ebony Jarrah Burl Jatoba Katalox Kingwood Koa Lacewood Leopardwood Lignum Vitae (Argentine) Lignum Vitae (Genuine) Macassar Ebony Madagascar Rosewood Madrone Burl Makore Mappa Burl Marblewood Masur Birch Mayan Walnut Merbau Mirindiba Mopani Narra Nicaraguan Rosewood Olivewood Osage Orange (Argentine) Osage Orange (USA) Padauk Pau Santo Peruvian Walnut Pink Ivory Poplar Purpleheart Quarter Sawn Maple Quarter Sawn Red Oak Quarter Sawn White Oak Quilted Bubinga Quilted Sapele Quilted Western Maple Red Coolibah Burl Red Mallee Burl Red Oak Red Palm Redheart Rift Sawn Hard Maple Royal Ebony Santos Mahogany Sapele Shedua Snakewood Soft Maple Spalted Maple Spalted Tamarind Spanish Cedar Sucupira Swamp Ash Tamboti Teak Thuya Burl Tornillo Tulipwood Walnut Wenge Western Maple Western Maple Burl White Ash White Oak Yellow Box Burl Yellowheart Zebrawood ZiricoteĢ00 E. Exotic Wood Species Acacia African Blackwood African Mahogany Afrormosia Afzelia Burl Amazon Rosewood Amboyna Burl Ambrosia Maple Angelim Pedra Anigre Aspen Bark Pocket Maple Basswood Birch Birdseye Maple Black & White Ebony Black Palm Bloodwood Bocote Bolivian Rosewood Brazilian Ebony Brown Ebony Brown Mallee Burl Bubinga Buckeye Burl Butternut Camatillo Canarywood Chakte Viga Chechen Cherry Cherry Burl Cocobolo Cumaru Curly Cherry Curly Hard Maple Curly Narra Curly Oak Curly Pyinma Curly Soft Maple Curly Western Maple Curly White Ash E.
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