Webinar & Events - Policy

RPS and ESTAP Webinar: California’s New Energy Storage Mandate

November 19, 2013

In a move with important national implications, the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) has approved an order requiring the state’s three largest utilities to add 1325 megawatts of energy storage to the grid by 2020. In this webinar, CPUC staff members described the agency’s energy storage decision, explained its purpose, and discussed how it will be implemented.

2013 National Summit on RPS

November 6, 2013

The 2013 RPS Summit provided an opportunity to learn about developments and trends related to state RPSs and to network with many of the people from across the country who are most engaged in implementing and analyzing state RPSs.

CESA Webinar: America’s Power Plan – Wholesale Market Design and Distributed Generation

October 2, 2013

This will be the second of two webinars drawing on material from America’s Power Plan, a series of eight white papers that will be released this month by the Energy Foundation in partnership with Energy Innovation. America’s Power Plan is a policy roadmap for dealing with disruptive challenges in the power sector and getting to a high-renewables future.

CESA Webinar: America’s Power Plan – Finance and Utility Business Models

September 30, 2013

This webinar, presented by the Clean Energy States Alliance (CESA) for the State-Federal RPS Collaborative, is the first in a two-part series featuring authors from America’s Power Plan, an October 2013 toolkit for state and local decision makers developed by more than 150 of the nation’s top energy experts.

Wind Powering America Webinar: Small Wind Standards and Policy Update

September 18, 2013

Val Stori from the Clean Energy States Alliance, and Brent Summerville from the Small Wind Certification Council for an update on small wind standards and policy. During the September presentation, Orrell will provide an introduction to and brief demonstration of the Distributed Wind Policy Comparison Tool. Val Stori will provide an overview of the Interstate Turbine Advisory Council, and Brent Summerville will discuss the Small Wind Certification Council and the role of standards in the small wind industry.

RPS Webinar: The State of State RPSs

June 28, 2013

Clean Energy States Alliance is hosting a webinar to describe the key findings and recommendations from a forthcoming CESA report for the State-Federal RPS Collaborative on “The State of State RPSs.”

ESTAP Webinar: An Overview of the Electricity Storage Handbook

June 18, 2013

Clean Energy States Alliance, with the U.S. Department of Energy and Sandia National Laboratories, will host a webinar introducing the recently updated Electricity Storage Handbook released by Sandia National Laboratories and published by the U.S. Department of Energy. The webinar is titled “Highlights of the DOE/EPRI 2013 Electricity Storage Handbook in Collaboration with NRECA.”

CESA Membership Meeting – Washington, DC

June 3, 2013

CESA Spring Membership Meeting on June 3-4, 2013 in Washington, DC.

RPS Webinar: Overview of Regional Tracking Systems

May 28, 2013

This webinar, hosted by CESA for members of the State-Federal RPS Collaborative, will focus on the regional tracking systems that are used to track renewable energy certificates and renewable energy use for RPSs. It will cover the role of a tracking system, who is responsible for the policies and procedures at a tracking system, a tracking system’s relationship to its stakeholders, and the limitations on what a tracking system does and does not do.

CESA Webinar: Smart Grid, Grid Integration, Storage and Renewable Energy

May 16, 2013

How will the smart grid and smart meters, demand response, and energy storage affect the deployment of intermittent renewable energy? Our guest experts will answer these questions, and discuss the latest developments in these technologies, in this webinar. Speakers include Tom Stepien, CEO of Primus Power, and Ron Dizy, President and CEO ENBALA Power Network.