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

Bridging the Gap: How Emerging State Policies are Making Energy Storage More Affordable and Accessible

January 7, 2025

This webinar features report authors discussing a recent report, jointly published by the CESA and Sandia National Laboratories, that highlights emerging strategies used by the leading states to advance energy storage adoption in underserved and low-income communities.

Solar and Battery Storage to Support Community Preparedness and Disaster Response

January 15, 2025

An increase in severe weather events, combined with aging energy infrastructure, is resulting in more frequent and longer duration power outages. This webinar will focus on innovative applications of solar+storage to assist vulnerable communities in the event of an outage and emergency event.

National Energy Summit for States: Navigating Energy Trends and Federal 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

Webinar – Clean Power Plan: Interactions and Implications for Renewable Energy Markets

November 19, 2015

Do you know how compliance with EPA’s Clean Power Plan (CPP) will affect your region’s voluntary and regulatory renewable energy markets? Do you know how carbon trading under mass-based and rate-based programs can be coordinated with existing REC trading?

Retrofits for Resiliency: How to Make an Existing Solar PV System into an Islandable Resilient Power System

November 12, 2015

This webinar, presented by CESA’s Energy Storage Technology Advancement Partnership (ESTAP), features a discussion on what is required, technically and economically, to retrofit an existing solar PV system with a new “smart” inverter and battery to make it islandable, so that it can continue to serve critical needs behind the meter when the grid is down. Panelists include Ben Schenkman of Sandia National Laboratories, Chris Larsen of Dynapower, and Dan Cohee of Pacific Data Electric.

2015 National Summit on RPS

November 5, 2015

The 2015 National Summit on RPS was hosted by the Clean Energy States Alliance (CESA), the Energy Foundation, and the U.S. Department of Energy.The Summit took place on Thursday, November 5th and Friday, November 6th.

Resilient Power Project Webinar: Sea Level Rise – A Grid Submerged

November 3, 2015

This webinar, presented by Clean Energy Group’s Resilient Power Project, introduces new analysis by the Union of Concerned Scientists that finds that an extensive amount of critical electricity infrastructure in these regions is situated in flood-risk areas today, and that these areas will expand to encompass more infrastructure in the decades ahead. Panelists include report authors Steve Clemmer and Julie McNamara of the Union of Concerned Scientists.

Resilience for Free: How Solar+Storage Could Protect Multifamily Affordable Housing from Power Outages at Little or No Net Cost

October 29, 2015

This webinar, presented by Clean Energy Group’s Resilient Power Project, introduces a new economic analysis which indicates that solar+storage systems could not only provide much needed reliable power for affordable housing projects, they are also economically viable. Panelists include report authors Seth Mullendore and Rob Sanders from Clean Energy Group and Henry Misas from Bright Power.

Resilience for Free: How Solar+Storage Could Protect Multifamily Affordable Housing from Power Outages at Little or No Net Cost

October 29, 2015

This webinar, presented by Clean Energy Group’s Resilient Power Project, introduces a new economic analysis which indicates that solar+storage systems could not only provide much needed reliable power for affordable housing projects, they are also economically viable. Panelists include report authors Seth Mullendore and Rob Sanders from Clean Energy Group and Henry Misas from Bright Power.

RPS Collaborative Webinar: Implications of Scheduled Solar ITC Reversion for RPS Compliance

October 26, 2015

The federal investment tax credit (ITC) is currently scheduled to be reduced in 2017 to 10% of project costs for commercial solar systems. This reduction would have impacts for compliance with solar carve-outs in various state renewable portfolio standards.

Resilient Power Project Webinar: Severe Weather and the Reliability of the US Electric Power Grid

October 14, 2015

This webinar, presented by Clean Energy Group’s Resilient Power Project, features Peter Larsen, Research Scientist in the Electricity Markets and Policy Group at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, for a discussion of his recently published study examining U.S. electric power system reliability.

Resilient Power Project Webinar: Fuel Cells for Educational Facilities

October 8, 2015

This webinar, presented by Clean Energy Group’s Resilient Power Project and the Northeast Electrochemical Energy Storage Cluster (NEESC), features a discussion on the technical and economic advantages of using fuel cell technologies to provide reliable, resilient power to educational facilities. Guest speakers include Kent McCord of Doosan Fuel Cells America, Kenneth Frisbie of Biofuels Energy LLC, and Erik Robie of the United Illuminating Company.

ESTAP Webinar: Energy Storage Market Updates

September 30, 2015

This webinar, presented by CESA’s Energy Storage Technology Advancement Partnership (ESTAP), is the first in a quarterly series on energy storage market updates. Guest speakers Michael Berlinski, Jacqueline DeRosa and Raj Chintapalli of Customized Energy Solutions presented up-to-date information on the value of electric services markets, such as frequency response and demand response, that energy storage can economically participate in.