There are good reasons to reestablish the Redding Electric Utility (REU) Citizens’ Advisory Board. One example: That Board could study and advise Council, as requested, on impacts of the successor solar tariff and...
Author: Jeff Morrow
The Wintu Audubon Chapter recently sponsored an excellent presentation highlighting the newly released report titled “California Birds in a Changing Climate”. Like most climate science these days, the takeaways were alarming. The findings: Two-thirds...
On Wed., Dec. 18, from 3 to 5 p.m., at the Caldwell Meeting Room at City Hall there will be a ‘listening’ session to consider Redding’s new affordable housing initiative. With funding from the...
City of Redding housing policy initiatives deserve close attention. 2nd unit regulation is up for change, driven by generously funded regulatory mandates. We are witnessing the State’s attempt to address the housing crisis via...
A few words about the net metering issue, downtown Redding’s new parking plan, and REU’s (Redding Electric Utility) solar plus battery projects. It’s a ‘connect the dots’, straw-to-gold kind of thing. Here are the...
Welcome to the age of electrons and the era of electronification. Dawn of the age of electrons occurred in 2006, when California approved a sweeping new energy sector roadmap. 14 years later, daybreak begins...
Our local democratic institutions were designed like a four cylinder engine. Unfortunately, our local engine of government putters on two cylinders. One cylinder is missing, another isn’t firing as intended. One result: Sub-optimal performance...
