By Jill Cowan for The New York Times
How Californians get power has been in the news a lot lately, between Pacific Gas & Electric’s woes and Mayor Eric Garcetti’s recent announcement that the Los Angeles Department of Water and Powerwould phase out three natural gas power plants on its way toward 100 percent renewable energy sources.
“We have an obligation to end dependence on fossil fuels, embrace the technologies of tomorrow, and prioritize renewable energy,” Mr. Garcetti said in a statement to The Times this week.
The question now is how to do that.
Today, the residential solar power provider Sunrun released a reportwith what its leaders said could be the answer: a mass deployment of residential solar panels, along with batteries, that collectively form a kind of virtual power plant operated by a utility.
