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Featured Speaker
Carla Peterman
Commissioner, California Public Utilities Commission
Featured Speaker
Lyndon Rive
CEO, SolarCity
Featured Speaker
Dawn Weisz
CEO, Marin Clean Energy
Featured Speaker
Russ Hancock
President and CEO, Joint Venture Silicon Valley

Margaret Bruce
Principal Solutionary, Manzanita Consulting Associates

Jeff Byron
Former Commissioner, California Energy Commission
Band of Angels Investor

Sam Liccardo
Mayor, City of San Jose

Ned Orrett
President, Resource Performance Partners, Inc.

Rusty Klassen
Senior Strategic Advisor, Policy and Energy, Sonoma County Public Agencies

Ken Smokoska
President, California Renewable Energy Solutions and Technologies, Inc.

Don Bray
Executive Director, Joint Venture Silicon Valley’s Smart Energy Enterprise Development programs (SEEDZ Initiative)

Lauren Casey
Climate Protection Program Manager, Regional Climate Protection Authority

Gavriella Keyles
Communications & Program Manager, RE-volv

Angie Boakes
General Manager, Shell Alternative Energies’ Electric Mobility

Gary Saleba
President and CEO, EES Consulting

Steve Fleming
President and CEO, River City Bank

Dave Pine
Supervisor, San Mateo County Board of Supervisors

Barbara Hale
Assistant General Manager, San Francisco Public Utilities Commission Power Enterprise

Andrew Cameron
Managing Director, Energy Producing Retail Reality

Mike Kempa
Sales Manager, Siemens

Urvi Parekh
Director of Origination, Western Region, US Utilities and Power Plants, Sunpower

Shawn Marshall
Executive Director, LEAN Energy US

Steve Schupe
General Counsel, Sonoma Clean Power

David Erickson
Energy Division Staff Lead, California Public Utilities Commission

Woody Hastings
Renewable Energy Manager, The Climate Center
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Featured Speaker
Angelina Galiteva
Board Member, California Independent System Operator
Featured Speaker
Geof Syphers
CEO, Sonoma Clean Power
Featured Speaker
Barbara Boswell
Director, Lancaster Choice Energy
Featured Speaker
Mark Ferron
Member, Board of Governors, California Independent System Operator

Cordel Stillman
Deputy Chief Engineer, Sonoma County Water Agency

Craig Lewis
Executive Director, Clean Coalition

Justin Kudo
Manager of Account Services, Marin Clean Energy

Robert Pierce
Director of Energy Marketing, Shell Energy

Martha Davis
Assistant General Manager/Executive Manager of Policy Development, Inland Empire Utilities Agency

Joe Galliani
Chair, South Bay Clean Power

Amy Rider
Program Analyst, Sonoma Clean Power

Drake Welch
Vice President – Customer Care, Noble Americas Energy Solutions

Samuel Golding
President, Community Choice Partners

Howard Choy
General Manager, County of Los Angeles Office of Sustainability

Joseph Como
Director, Office of Ratepayer Advocates

Dolores Weller
Director, Central Valley Air Quality Coalition

Melody Tovar
Division Manager, Regulatory Programs at City of Sunnyvale

Jason Simon
Director of Policy and Regulatory Strategy, Enphase Energy

Martha Amram
CEO, Wattzon

Ann Hancock
Executive Director, The Climate Center

David Kaneda
Managing Principal, Integral Group

Brad Heavner
Policy Director, California Solar Energy Industries Association

Curtis Tongue
Co-Founder and CMO, Ohmconnect

Jamillah Jordan
Outreach Coordinator, MIG
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Topics
- Community Choice 101: Governance, risk assessment, financing, procurement, operations
- Critical elements of successful Community Choice programs
- Community Choice 201: Getting up and operating fast
- Designing programs that drive economic development
- Opportunities and challenges of developing distributed energy resources
- Policy and regulatory trends that will impact local energy efforts
- How bad is the PCIA exit fee and what can be done about it
- Top local renewable energy and efficiency programs
- Financing CCE’s: Addressing the bottleneck
- Forecasts about the utilities, regulations and markets of the future
- Leveraging storage, electric vehicles and microgrids, to enhance local energy projects
- Community Choice as a system integrator and platform for innovation
- The water energy nexus and how they relate to developing CCE programs
- What do local programs need from the state and how they can get it
Sponsors
Center for Resource Solutions
Lancaster Choice Energy
Marin Clean Energy
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