CESA Webinars & Events

Below is the list of our upcoming and most recent webinars. All of our webinars are free to attend, but registration is required. Click on the titles of the upcoming webinars below to read more and register.

Upcoming

National Energy Summit for States: Implementation of IRA, BIL, and other Federal Policies and Programs

May 28, 2025

This event will bring together state and federal government officials and program staff who are working to implement IRA/BIL programs.

Recent

State Leadership in Clean Energy: Award-Winning Programs in New Hampshire and Rhode Island

July 13, 2016

This webinar highlighted two winning programs from CESA’s 2016 State Leadership in Clean Energy Awards: New Hampshire’s Useful Thermal Energy Certificate (T-REC) Program, and Rhode Island’s System Reliability Procurement Solar Distributed Generation Pilot Project.

Measuring Energy Storage System Performance: A Government/Industry- Developed Protocol

June 30, 2016

In this webinar, panelists from PNNL, Sandia, and the US DOE discussed the updated protocol for measuring and expressing the performance characteristics for energy storage systems. This webinar was a presentation of the Energy Storage Technology Advancement Partnership (ESTAP).

The EPA Clean Power Plan and State RPS Programs

June 23, 2016

This webinar covered highlights from a recent RPS Collaborative Report on the relationship between EPA’s Clean Power Plan and state RPSs. Report author Ed Holt presented.

Residential Solar Financing 101

June 22, 2016

Travis Lowder from the National Renewable Energy Laboratory discusses common residential solar financing choices, solar financing consumer protection issues, publicly supported solar finance programs from around the country, and broad solar financing trends.

Hydrogen and Fuel Cells for Resiliency: Microgrids for Grid Power

June 16, 2016

In this webinar, presented by the Northeast Electrochemical Energy Storage Cluster (NEESC) and Clean Energy Group’s Resilient Power Project, guest speakers from FuelCell Energy and A/Z Corporation provided an overview of key features associated with the use of fuel cells in microgrid applications and fuel cell technology currently being used to support microgrids.

Reducing Electric Bills in California Multifamily Affordable Housing with Solar+Storage

June 15, 2016

In this webinar, presented by Clean Energy Group’s Resilient Power Project, panelists from Clean Energy Group, the California Housing Partnership, the Center for Sustainable Energy, and Geli discuss the findings of their new report on solar+storage for California affordable multifamily housing.

Spring 2016 CESA Members Meeting

June 1, 2016

The 2016 CESA members meeting was held June 1-2 in Minneapolis, MN, and was hosted by Xcel Energy – Renewable Development Fund and the Minnesota Department of Commerce – Division of Energy Resources.

RPS Collaborative Webinar: A Tale of Two Grids

May 25, 2016

This webinar looked at the future of the electric grid and states’ approaches to grid modernization.

Hydrogen and Fuel Cells for Resiliency: Hydrogen for Power-to-Gas Energy Storage

May 12, 2016

Clean Energy Group and the Northeast Electrochemical Energy Storage Cluster (NEESC) are hosting a webinar on using hydrogen as a Power-to-Gas (P2G) energy storage medium. Guest speakers from McPhy Energy, ITM Power, and Electro Power Systems (EPS) will present.

Energizing Cleveland with Offshore Wind: An Update on the Icebreaker Project

May 4, 2016

This webinar, presented by the Northeast Wind Resource Center (NWRC), will feature a presentation on the Icebreaker project–a demonstration-scale offshore wind project in Lake Erie. The 20 MW project is the first proposed fresh-water offshore wind project in the US.