Why Californians Have Some of the Highest Power Bills in the U.S.

August 5, 2024

The Wall Street Journal

Severin Borenstein, Energy Institute Faculty Director, explains the problems with California’s renewable energy production and its electrical infrastructure.

“’California is sort of the cutting edge’ in terms of rising power rates, said Severin Borenstein, an energy-policy expert and professor at the University of California, Berkeley’s Haas School of Business…’It’s primarily due to what climate change is doing to us, and particularly wildfires. But it’s also due to what California is trying to do to reduce climate change.’”

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