Josh Becker

State Senator, California State Senate · 1 appearance on the record.

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Josh Becker is a California State Senator representing Silicon Valley who champions legislation on clean energy, climate action, and digital consumer privacy. Prior to entering the legislature, he served for nearly a decade as CEO of legal analytics company Lex Machina and co-founded venture firm New Cycle Capital.

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Assertion Supported

Senator Becker: EV charger grid interconnection takes 70 weeks in his district

“So in my district, it takes about 70 weeks, which is hard to believe, like seven, no, seven 70 weeks to get things connected, to get new charging infrastructure, for example connected to the grid.”

Josh Becker Oct 6, 2023 ▶ 17:39 Can California pull off its clean energy ambitions?

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Assertion Contradicted

Senator Becker: Oil lobby is the top donor to California's legislature

“So the number one contributor to the state legislature is the Western States petroleum initiative, right? By far.”

Josh Becker Oct 6, 2023 ▶ 43:09 Can California pull off its clean energy ambitions?

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Assertion Supported

Senator Becker: EV charger grid interconnection takes 70 weeks in his district

Josh Becker Oct 6, 2023 ▶ 17:39 Can California pull off its clean energy ambitions?

Opinion

Senator Becker: Disincentivizing rooftop solar is a mistake given wind timelines

“So I think it's a big mistake to disincentivize rooftop solar at this time and believe that we can both do that and do things like central procurement, make sure we actually build offshore wind, which is, as you know, is going to take seven to 10 years anyway…”

Josh Becker Oct 6, 2023 ▶ 27:49 Can California pull off its clean energy ambitions?

Assertion Contradicted

Senator Becker: Oil lobby is the top donor to California's legislature

“So the number one contributor to the state legislature is the Western States petroleum initiative, right? By far.”

Josh Becker Oct 6, 2023 ▶ 43:09 Can California pull off its clean energy ambitions?

Assertion Supported

Senator Becker: California bundles wildfire costs and social programs into electricity rates

“The problem is we stuff lots of things into rates, right? We stuff in all the wildfire costs into rates. The care program, which is a five billion dollar program, we put that into rates. So we put everything into rates.”

Josh Becker Oct 6, 2023 ▶ 46:40 Can California pull off its clean energy ambitions?

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Senator Becker: California spent $1B extending dirty legacy power plants

“We spent a billion dollars on dirty legacy, you know, once through cooling, heavily polluting plants, just because we might need them for, like, 15 hours a year.”

Josh Becker Oct 6, 2023 ▶ 53:12 Can California pull off its clean energy ambitions?

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Senator Becker: California must quadruple emissions cuts to hit 2030 goals

“We're reducing emissions about one percent a year. And even to hit our own 20, 30 goals, we've got to be reducing emissions four to five percent a year.”

Josh Becker Oct 6, 2023 ▶ 16:05 Can California pull off its clean energy ambitions?

Opinion

Senator Becker: Clean energy community lacks political presence in Sacramento

“From being in the legislature, there's not enough, by far, the clean energy community does not show up in a, in, in, in a big enough way in elections or in policy in Sacramento, and that's a big problem, and we need to fix it.”

Josh Becker Oct 6, 2023 ▶ 1:02:19 Can California pull off its clean energy ambitions?

Insight

Becker: High electricity rates disincentivize the transition to electrification

“So I think longer term, we have to do something like that because the high rates disincentivize the switch to electrification, which is what we all want is what we need for our energy policy.”

Josh Becker Oct 6, 2023 ▶ 47:16 Can California pull off its clean energy ambitions?

Assertion Supported

Josh Becker: CAISO approved $7.5B across 45 transmission projects in 2023

“And this year, the Kaiso approved A 7.5 billion dollars of transmission projects, about 45 different transmission projects.”

Josh Becker Oct 6, 2023 ▶ 17:07 Can California pull off its clean energy ambitions?

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Episode	Date	Speaking time
Can California pull off its clean energy ambitions?	Oct 6, 2023	15m

Josh Becker

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