California’s Governor Gavin Newsom’s revised budget draft for 2022 to 2023 includes added spending of $1.75 billion for clean cars and charging infrastructure, $1.5 billion for electric school buses, $1 billion for domestic solar-plus-storage, and most noteworthily, $5.2 billion for a 5 GW “strategic electricity reliability reserve”. The new draft states at the start of its energy section “Climate change is causing unprecedented stress on California’s energy system—driving high demand and constraining supply. Extreme weather events from climate change—including heat waves, wildfires, and the impact of drought on hydropower capacity, combined with other factors such as supply-chain disruptions—are jeopardizing California’s ability to build out the electric infrastructure in the time frame and at the scale needed.” The most severe supply…