Center for Sustainable Energy

Energy Storage Power Point Presentation

by Rebecca Feuerlicht 

A map showing the already known geothermal locations in California.

A map showing the offshore wind potential for California. Note that San Diego's potential is not very high.

A map showing the solar potential for California. Note that San Diego's potential is high.

Adrienne Alvord

An article focused on clean vehicles and reducing reliance on fossil fuels for oil.

In 2007, geothermal energy in our state produced 13,000 gigawatt-hours of electricity. Combined with another 440 GWh of imported geothermal electricity, then geothermal energy produced 4.5 percent of the state's total system power. A total of 43 operating geothermal power plants with an installed capacity of nearly 1,800 megawatts are in California, about two-thirds of the total United States' geothermal generation.

California has adopted a cap and trade approach to taxing carbon emissions, which sets an upper limit on allowable levels of carbon and permits the purchase of carbon credits to offset emissions.

While California’s per capita electricity consumption has held steady for three decades, per capita gross state product (GSP) has doubled.  This shows that California’s economy has become less reliant on energy to produce goods and services

California is the eighth largest economy in the world, according to the state's Legislative Analyst's Office. To meet the needs of its growing population, California's economy depends upon affordable, reliable, and environmentally sound supplies of electricity, natural gas, and transportation fuels.