The California Public Utilities commission (CPUC) will be taking its show on the road in 2017. Historically the CPUC has held a few regional meetings each year, but legislation enacted in 2015 now requires the CPUC to meet in Sacramento and in other communities outside of their headquarter city of San Francisco several times per […]
Community meetings focusing on Community Choice Energy are planned for Fresno and Visalia in December. The Visalia meeting will take place on Tuesday, December 13 and Fresno’s will be the following day, Wednesday, December 14. Both events will feature Woody Hastings of the Clean Power Exchange to offer a presentation on the benefits of Community […]
Community Choice Energy and the Clean Power Exchange (CPX) had a strong presence at the first annual San Joaquin Valley Clean Transportation Summit. Held at the Clovis Veteran’s Memorial Hall, the Summit, organized by Joseph Oldham of CALSTART and Erik Cherkaski of the Office of Community and Economic Development (OCED) of Fresno State University, attracted over one […]
How can Community Choice power the energy revolution? “The next five years will see more change in the energy industry than has occurred in the previous fifty years.” So begins “Community Choice Aggregation 2.0 Strategies for Distributed Energy Resources in a CCA Environment,” a recently released a white paper by the inventor of Community Choice […]
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 proposal is to actually reduce rates. As things stand, […]
Photo caption: Woody Hastings (front row left) and Bill Powers (front row right) share their experience and knowledge of the renewable energy model known as Community Choice Aggregation while state, county, water and business leaders listen and take note. About 100 community leaders and clean energy advocates convened for a Local Energy Symposium on January 25th, […]
As Halloween approaches, it seems fitting to revisit recent advice from the energy experts at the Rocky Mountain Institute. If you want to keep the lights on when zombies or other calamities come knocking at your door, it might be a good idea to have invested in microgrid technology. It’s a scary thought to think […]