Michael Wara

The LA Times just published an OpEd I wrote on what we can do to respond to the problem of catastrophic wildfire. latimes.com/opinion/story/…

New blog post on our substack with near current interactive maps of FAIR Plan (insurer of last resort) exposure in California. Check it out: cepp.substack.com/p/mapping-the-…

Here’s my OpEd from this morning regarding the need partnership and therefore for SB540: calmatters.org/commentary/202…

Here’s my plan for energy dominance: - punch solar, batteries, and electric motors while China dominates us - larp as pro nuclear but do little to nothing - classify coal as a critical mineral - claim we’ll help O&G even though production was already at absolute record levels

I'll be live tweeting the Cal Catastrophe Response Council meeting today on the other site if you are interested.

The President needs to keep his most basic foreign policy promise - no more forever wars. Especially wars that the US government did not choose. Remember: There is no end game. “You break it you own it .” How did “regime change” work out last time?

If they occur, these cuts are going to blow a giant hole in the CSU-UC opportunity machine for CA’s (and many other state’s) young people. They would be anti-future, anti-working families, anti-young people. I truly hope the President doesn’t do it. cnn.com/2025/06/06/pol…

CEPP is publishing an update to our utility wildfire mitigation maturity study that significantly expands coverage and provides a current view into investor owned utility wildfire safety. We will have a webinar on June 12 at noon Pacific. us11.campaign-archive.com/?e=__test_emai…

An early season wildfire just blew up my Memorial Day weekend plans. Argh!!!!😖

Early analyses from our growing body of work on insurance challenges in California. open.substack.com/pub/cepp/p/the…

The number of CA IOU customers in arrears at the end of Nov. 2023 was 2.4 million, totaling about $1.1 billion At the end of March this year, customers in arrears were at about 3.4 million and their collective debt grew to almost $2.2 billion. (Anne Ernst reporting, CPUC records)

FFT is so important for time series analysis in climate science. Can't be overstated.

60 years ago this month, the Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) was introduced by Cooley & Tukey (1965) - one of the most important algorithms in signal processing and data analysis. In 1805, Gauss - studying the orbits of asteroids Pallas and Juno - came up with a method to…

I was just looking at the HDWI for the next few days and the drought monitor and thinking, SW fire season is prob going to show up right quick.

It was so great to have the opportunity to talk to @HotshotWake about these issues. 🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾

California's SB540 (Becker) - the bill to enable creation of a regional day ahead electricity market for the west including CA - just passed 17-0 out of the Senate Energy and Utilities Committee. That's a very good start for a bill that will improve reliability and affordability.

PJM's data center load growth and hostility to battery storage is now putting grid reliability at risk for 65 million retail customers across 13 states. In a recent near-miss event, "in order to keep themselves online, data centers risked grid reliability for everyone else."