California and Utah lead in clean energy initiatives as new projects and regulatory challenges emerge across the West.

A California partnership launches a home efficiency, electrification and rooftop solar pilot project on a single city block, with hopes of scaling up the project further. A southern California amusement park breaks ground on a 12 MW solar-plus-storage system, set to become the state’s largest single-site commercial clean energy project. Construction is nearing completion on a 200 MW solar installation in Utah, the nation’s first to opt for the Inflation Reduction Act’s production tax credit. A California company offers existing residential solar customers add-on battery energy storage installations to help them weather new state net-metering rules. A proposed mine in Nevada would primarily extract vanadium, a critical metal used in electric vehicle and grid-scale batteries. California advocates call for greater transparency and accountability from Pacific Gas & Electric as the utility seeks a rate hike. Utah officials ask an appeals court to revoke the Biden administration’�s designation of Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monuments in the southern part of the state.