Chris Sentieri

Chris Sentieri is a Clean Energy, Climate Change and Sustainability policy consultant and program manager. He is currently serving as the Climate
Solutions Manager for Blue Strike Environmental, a national sustainability consulting firm based in Monterey, California. Mr. Sentieri has extensive
knowledge regarding Community Choice Aggregation and related local clean energy programming options and systems-level planning. His areas
of expertise include distributed energy resource planning, microgrid technologies, GHG quantification and mitigation planning, stakeholder engagement, community organizing, and public policy development. He works to accelerate the transition to a more resilient & sustainable
energy ecosystem by fostering market & policy solutions that pave the way for integrated, community-focused energy planning & rapid deployment of advanced clean energy infrastructure.

Mr. Sentieri led and managed the Association of Monterey Bay Area Governments (AMBAG) Energy and Climate Action Planning services for the Monterey Bay region, where he developed draft Energy Action Strategies and Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Inventories for all 21 jurisdictions in the tri- county AMBAG territory. He has also developed and led several community-wide, multi-stakeholder renewable energy initiatives, including the Monterey County Wind Turbine Roundtable and a successful Solar PV Permit Streamlining effort at the County of Monterey. Chris was instrumental in developing The Offset Project’s (TOP) Monterey Bay Carbon Fund, which has resulted in innovative, local greenhouse gas reduction projects (including Solar PV installations at local schools). Chris has also led the development of TOP’s Net Zero Energy Communities initiative, which is working to accelerate the transition to a more resilient and sustainable energy ecosystem by fostering market and policy solutions that pave the way for integrated, community-focused energy planning and rapid deployment of advanced clean energy infrastructure.

Most recently, Mr. Sentieri played a central role in the implementation of the East Bay Community Energy (EBCE) Local Development Business Plan (LDBP), developing the proposal and building the project team by leveraging his professional relationships and subject matter expertise. Chris is the Senior Project Manager for the LDBP project. The LDBP aims to provide the foundation for a robust local buildout of advanced, distributed and dispatchable clean energy assets that enhances and maximizes the social, economic and environmental benefits for the local community served by EBCE. This involves the evaluation and development of numerous local distributed energy resource programs and recommendations, including: Energy Efficiency, Demand Response, Energy Storage, Fuel Switching, Electric Vehicles, Feed-in Tariff, Net Energy Metering, and the advanced integrated data management infrastructure needed to support costeffective implementation of such programs.