On Jan 13, Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar and California Governor Jerry Brown signed an agreement to extend a Federal and State partnership which has helped a number of utility-scale solar energy projects to be completed in California.  The agreement has helped to fast track the permitting of renewable projects and will also help to make sure additional transmission lines can be built to accommodate even more renewable projects in the future.  It’s nice to see California is making progress its goal of 33% by 2020 and creating hundreds of jobs in the process.