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Newsweek: California Hits 'Historic' Energy Milestone

July 15, 2025
Newsweek writes about how California has increased the state’s clean energy days by 750% since 2022.

“New data shared by the Californian government shows that the state has supplied 100 percent of its electricity demand with clean energy sources for an average of seven hours a day so far this year.

 

More than nine out of 10 days in 2025 saw the state’s power being run on completely clean energy sources for an extended period of time in the day—representing a 750 percent increase in clean energy days since 2022.”

“The data signifies a major milestone in California’s clean energy deliveries, marking it as the largest economy in the world to achieve this level of clean energy, according to the state government. The success of the state, the world’s fourth largest economy, also holds weight for national and international energy policy.

 

Clean energy includes renewable resources—such as wind, solar, geothermal and biomass—and large hydroelectric power and nuclear energy. California’s goal is to have 100 percent of its retail electricity sales and state agency loads supplied with clean energy by 2045.”

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Launched on June 1, 2017 by the governors of Washington, New York, and California to help fill the void left by President Trump’s initial decision to withdraw the U.S. from the Paris Agreement, the Alliance has grown to include 24 governors from across the U.S. representing approximately 60% of the U.S. economy and 55% of the U.S. population. Governors in the Alliance have pledged to collectively reduce net greenhouse gas emissions by at least 26-28% by 2025, 50-52% by 2030, and 61-66% by 2035, all below 2005 levels, and collectively achieve overall net-zero greenhouse gas emissions as soon as practicable, and no later than 2050. 

 

The Alliance’s states and territories will continue to advance innovative and impactful climate solutions to grow the economy, create jobs, and protect public health, and have a long record of action and results. In fact, the Alliance reduced its collective net greenhouse gas emissions by 19% between 2005 and 2022, while increasing collective GDP by 30%, and is on track to meet its near-term climate goal by reducing collective GHG emissions 26% below 2005 levels by 2025. The coalition’s states and territories are employing more workers in the clean energy sector, achieving lower levels of dangerous air pollutants, and preparing more effectively for climate impacts and executing more pre-disaster planning than the rest of the country. 

 

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