Assessing California’s Climate Policies—Electricity Generation

Jan 6, 2020 - During the study period, BOS costs declined by less than $ 1 p er watt ($ 3 p er watt to a little more than $ 2 p er watt). Over a similar time period, hardware costs declined from over $ 7 p er watt to less than $3. 5 p er watt.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4131

Improving Outcomes for California Conservation Corpsmembers

Feb 9, 2018 - For example, for each corpsmember the department tracks ( 1)  t he number of hours worked, ( 2)  p rogress towards fulfilling mandatory training modules and specialized training courses, ( 3)  p articipation in high school education, ( 4)  p rogress towards earning scholarship benefits, and ( 5)  p rogress towards successfully completing leadership training and promoting into leadership positions.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3742

Cap-and-Trade Extension: Issues for Legislative Oversight

Dec 12, 2017 - For example, if a company uses offsets to cover 2  p ercent of its compliance obligation in 2021, can all 2  p ercent be from non ‑direct offsets (half of the 4  p ercent limit) or only 1  p ercent (half of the offsets used for compliance)?
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3719

Expanding Access to Safe and Affordable Drinking Water in California—A Status Update

Nov 10, 2020 - For example, the aforementioned UC Davis study reports that Hispanics/Latinos make up a much larger percentage of the population served by out ‑of ‑compliance community water systems ( 57  p ercent), as compared to Caucasians ( 36  p ercent).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4294

The 2019-20 Budget: Overview of the Governor's Budget

Jan 14, 2019 - The 2018 ‑ 19 b udget approved the first step of this plan by providing an across ‑the ‑board 10  p ercent grant increase effective April 1, 2019. The Governor ’s budget proposes to further increase CalWORKs grants by 13. 1  p ercent, which would raise grant levels to 50  p ercent of FPL for a family of three.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3916

What Can We Learn From How the State Responded to the Last Major Drought?

May 13, 2021 - In March  2021, DWR announced that the State Water Project expects to deliver just 5  p ercent of requested supplies to its water contractors this year, down from an initial allocation of 10  p ercent announced in December.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4429

Assessing California’s Climate Policies—Transportation

Dec 21, 2018 - Based on CARB data, CVRP results in a state financial cost of over $ 400 p er ton of GHGs reduced. Primarily because the rebate amounts are much higher on average, the Clean Cars 4 All Program costs about $ 900 p er ton of GHGs reduced, according to CARB.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3912

Reducing the Destructiveness of Wildfires: Promoting Defensible Space in California

Sep 30, 2021 - On average, these agencies reported an annual inspection rate of roughly 35  p ercent. As with CalFire, the inspection rate varied considerably across jurisdictions, with reported inspection rates ranging from 3 p ercent to 100  p ercent.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4457

The 2019-20 Budget: Natural Resources and Environmental Protection

Feb 14, 2019 - Local water systems would be authorized to retain 4  p ercent of the revenue to cover costs associated with the collection of the charges until July 2022 when the amount the water systems could retain would decline to 2  p ercent.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3933

The 2018-19 Budget: Resources and Environmental Protection

Feb 14, 2018 - The Governor requests $7. 7  m illion from the General Fund and 12. 4 p ositions in 2018 ‑ 19 t o implement and operate the program. Under the proposal, $6. 3  m illion from the General Fund and 12. 4 p ositions would be needed to operate the program in 2019 ‑20 and annually thereafter.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3747