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New battery installation comes online in eastern Kern
A San Francisco-based energy company has flipped the switch on a $400 million battery installation next to its 4-year-old solar farm in the Rosamond area. Clearway Energy Group's 147-megawatt Rosamond Central Battery Energy Storage System is the company's first battery retrofit project, made up of lithium-ion batteries delivering power for four hours nightly to support the reliability of California's power grid.
ICE Detention: Where a day’s work might buy you a 14-minute phone call
One dollar a day. That’s how much immigrant detainees in GEO Group-run ICE facilities in Kern County earn scrubbing bathrooms and cutting hair, reports CalMatters’ Jeanne Kuang. Detainees at the Mesa Verde and Golden State Annex ICE facilities told Kuang they started their second labor and hunger strike in two years to protest poor working […]
In 2023 Kern County saw an increase in Valley Fever
BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KGET) — The Kern County Public Health Department announced a 24% increase in cases of Valley Fever from 2022 to 2023. In a conference Thursday morning, health officials said 2023 was the second-highest year of Valley Fever cases reported in Kern County. Valley Fever is an illness caused by a fungus that lives […]
Feds tap Bakersfield company to store energy in depleted oil wells
A Bakersfield company's plan to repurpose depleted local oil wells for energy storage has tentatively won a $6 million grant from the federal government as part of a push to decarbonize industry. The U.S. Department of Energy announced it will negotiate with Premier Resource Management LLC to build a 100-kilowatt...
1 arrested, meth and fentanyl seized in southeast Bakersfield: KCSO
BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KGET) — A man was arrested for allegedly possessing a firearm and ammunition as a felon on Saturday, according to the Kern County Sheriff’s Office. On July 20, 41-year-old James Pallemeier, was arrested after a search warrant was executed in the 100 block of Quantico Avenue by the KCSO Gang Suppression Unit. Pallemeier […]
Driver sustains life-threatening injuries after semi truck crashes into Wofford Heights house
BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KGET) — Kern County Fire Department firefighters responded to the scene of a structure fire after a semi-truck crashed into a house in Wofford Heights Thursday afternoon, officials said. When KCFD arrived, said the truck was coming down Evans Grade when the brakes went out. The semi-truck then crashed through a power-pole and […]
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