Good morning, and welcome to the Essential California newsletter. It’s Friday, Aug. 19. I’m Hailey Branson-Potts, a state reporter who focuses on rural California. In the midst of climate ...

Surging demand for electricity and new investment in green energy drove the plan to restart Michigan’s decommissioned Palisades plant. It would be a global first.

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An environmental group filed a lawsuit to close California’s last nuclear power plant. The lawsuit would block PG&E’s efforts to extend the plant’s operating licenses.

Still, any efforts to permanently close the nuclear plant face the ever-growing appetite for electricity in Southern California.

Diablo Canyon ignites conversations about nuclear power in the state’s energy future.

PG&E has filed its relicensing application to keep California’s last nuclear power plant running 20 years beyond its scheduled closure date. The application was submitted to the U.S. Nuclear ...

The Department of Energy announced new funding for California’s embattled Diablo Canyon nuclear power plant. The plant has become emblematic of a national debate over the future of nuclear energy.

The nuclear plant is scheduled to close, in part, because California plans to shutter all power facilities that use ocean water for cooling, known as “once-through cooling.” ...

Closing down the gas-fired generators and the Diablo Canyon nuclear plant — the latter supplying about 9% of the state’s power supply — would make blackouts very likely.