On September 10, 2018, California Governor Jerry Brown set
California on an ambitious clean energy path with the signing of
Senate Bill 100 ("SB 100"), which requires that by 2045,
100 percent of California's electricity be generated from
zero-carbon sources. To make this lofty goal even more of a
challenge, Governor Brown also signed an executive order
establishing a new statewide goal to reduce California's
overall emissions to zero by 2045 and then go negative
thereafter.
SB 100 makes California the largest economy in the world to
commit to generating 100 percent of its power from clean energy.
Despite its groundbreaking nature, this bill was the next logical
step for California, which has been steadily increasing its
renewable portfolio standards ("RPS"), from an initial
goal of 20 percent by 2017, to 60 percent by 2030, to this new 100
percent by 2045 target. Unlike prior iterations under the RPS,
however, this 100 percent by 2045 target requires only
