Please join us for our next webinar: The California Legislative Outlook 2018: A Community Choice Energy View on Jan 24, 2018, Noon to 1pm. REGISTER HERE This webinar will focus on challenges and opportunities emerging as we approach the 2018 legislative session in Sacramento. We are expecting a dynamic legislative session with many bills having … Read more
The Climate Center is pleased to present this report about potential local economic benefits from Community Choice Energy (CCE) in the San Joaquin Valley. It builds on our previous work in analyzing economic impacts of CCE in the City of San Jose in “Community Choice Energy: What is the Economic Impact? San Jose, California Case … Read more
by Ann Hancock, The Climate Center | March 10, 2016 In October 2014, at our first Business of Local Energy Symposium, only two operational Community Choice programs existed in California: Marin Clean Energy and Sonoma Clean Power. A mere sixteen months later, Community Choice is taking off across the state. We reported this story in … Read more
By Woody Hastings, CCP | Feb. 25, 2016 Sonoma Clean Power launched in 2014 with rates below PG&E. SCP’s standard plan is to set rates once per year. When it had its first chance to raise rates in April 2015, it chose to keep them unchanged from the previous year. This year the staff … Read more
By Ann Hancock and Woody Hastings, CCP | Feb. 24, 2016 The The Climate Center keeps a close eye on Community Choice energy developments in the State of California and updates a growing database of cities and counties evaluating Community Choice. The compiled data demonstrates the spread of Community Choice and shows that momentum is … Read more
Center for Climate Protection is there to answer questions and offer support By Woody Hastings, CCP | Jan. 27, 2016 About 100 community leaders and clean energy advocates convened for a Local Energy Symposium on January 25th, hosted by the Morongo Basin Conservation Association in Yucca Valley, not far from Joshua Tree National Monument. Earlier … Read more
by Andy Ferguson The second Business of Local Energy Symposium, an event that explores the emerging Community Choice Energy market in California, will be held in San Jose on March 4th. Prominent speakers from existing Community Choice Energy (CCE) programs, state energy agencies, and private industry will address an audience composed of local government representatives … Read more
By Woody Hastings, CCP | Jan. 15, 2016 All eyes are on San Francisco in the California local clean energy community as the City moves closer to its long-held vision of having its own Community Choice energy program, CleanPowerSF. San Francisco was one of the first communities to embark on an evaluation of Community … Read more
By Woody Hastings, CCP | December 29, 2015 The Climate Center is proud to announce that the Reva and David Logan Foundation awarded it a grant for 2016 to spread Community Choice energy programs in California. The Logan-funded project will focus on five yet-to-be-selected Central Valley communities in California, communities that are severely impacted by … Read more
By Woody Hastings The race is on between San Francisco’s CleanPowerSF and Peninsula Clean Energy: Which will be first to launch an electricity program for their residents and businesses? San Francisco has a head start because they have been working on their effort for many years, and they are on schedule to launch early in … Read more
