Meeting

Advanced Energy Communities Symposium

The California Endowment Oakland Regional Office, 2000 Franklin St, Oakland, CA 94612

This meeting is by invitation only. This interactive symposium is designed specifically for community and local government leaders, policymakers, and energy and climate program implementers. A consortium of community choice aggregators, nonprofit and private sector solution providers, municipalities, and universities has implemented Advanced Energy Community (AEC) pilot projects in four communities — Richmond, Lancaster, Oakland, … Read more

Business Network Event: Making Electricity Affordable Through Smart Policy and Programs

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Man with rooftop solar array

This event is by invitation only. The Climate Center invites you to a discussion about making energy more affordable by prioritizing local, clean energy resources and reducing barriers to electrifying homes. Utility rates in California have been rising much faster than inflation for years. Data center energy demand is also now driving up costs. Assemblymember … Read more

Enhancing Collaboration to Achieve Clean, Distributed Energy Policy Goals

2000 Franklin St. Oakland, CA 94612

Accelerated deployment of clean, distributed energy resources like rooftop solar, batteries, and electric vehicles in California would help solve multiple challenges, including energy affordability, resilience, and equity. The purpose of this meeting is to collaboratively envision how aligned stakeholders — including environmental organizations, environmental justice advocates, and related industry allies — can collaborate more effectively … Read more

California Bidirectional Electric School Bus Policy Coalition Meeting

David Brower Center, 2150 Allston Way, Suite 100, Berkeley, California 94704, Tamalpais Room 

California has led the nation in electric school bus adoption, now home to nearly one-quarter of all electric school buses nationwide. However, without a unified strategy, California could miss opportunities to leverage these buses as grid resources to enhance the affordability, resilience, and reliability of the state’s electrical grid. This meeting opened with presentations on … Read more

Business Network Event: How Climate Legislation Grows the Clean Energy Economy

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The Climate Center invites you to a Zoom discussion about how climate legislation opens markets and creates opportunities for businesses, featuring Walker Wright from Sunrun and Mary Solecki from AJW, Inc. The Climate Center is at the leading edge of advocating for clean energy policy rooted in ambitious climate protection with a commitment to robust … Read more

Business Network Event: How Advanced Geothermal Power Can Help Meet California’s Climate Goals

Sonoma Clean Power’s Customer Care Center at 741 4th Street, Santa Rosa, CA 95404

Join us for a discussion about the potential for geothermal energy to provide clean, affordable electricity across California. Electricity demand is at an all-time high. State efforts to electrify the transportation and building sectors, plus the massive data centers needed to support Artificial Intelligence (AI), mean that demand is only expected to grow in the … Read more

Business Network Event: The Grid for the Future is Decentralized, Reliable, and Affordable

SOMO Village, 1400 Valley House Drive, Suite 240, Rohnert Park, CA 94928

The key to building an affordable, resilient, and reliable energy system is increasing the use of distributed energy resources — things like rooftop solar, battery storage, and technologies that manage energy demand. California’s electricity rates are through the roof, creating an affordability crisis at the same time that extreme weather is hammering communities across the … Read more

Business Network Breakfast: Strategies for Removing Carbon Dioxide from the Atmosphere

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California has just set some of the most ambitious targets in the world for natural carbon removal. The United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change tells us that, in addition to rapidly cutting emissions, we must remove about a trillion tons of carbon from the atmosphere by the end of the century to stay below … Read more

Business Network Breakfast: The State of California’s Solar Industry and Future Opportunities for Decarbonization

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As The Climate Center ramps up for another legislative session in California, we invite our Business Network members to join us for an update on our policy priorities. We are honored to welcome Allie Detrio, CEO and Founder of ReimaginePower, a firm focused on strategy and advocacy for microgrids and other local energy resources. Allie … Read more

California climate legislative debrief for 2023 and a look forward to 2024

La Kretz Innovation Campus (LACI), 525 S Hewitt St Suite 150, Los Angeles, CA 90013

Civic and business leaders and actvists gathered at the Los Angeles Cleantech Incubator (LACI) to learn how the California legislature is (and is not) working to accelerate climate pollution reductions and the transition to 100 percent clean energy. The Climate Center CEO Ellie Cohen shared an update on climate achievements in the state legislature from … Read more