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

Batteries 101, Part 3: Safety and Environmental Considerations for Battery Energy Storage in Massachusetts

July 11, 2024

In a special, Massachusetts-focused webinar series by CEG and CESA, experts answer your questions about energy storage. This third installment will address fire codes, environmental considerations, and security considerations that municipalities and planners should explore when designing a battery storage project in their communities.

Energy Storage for Greenhouse Gas Emissions Reduction

July 30, 2024

States are increasingly adopting ambitious clean energy and climate goals, which will require both renewable generation and energy storage technologies. This webinar will feature two different state approaches to reducing emissions with energy storage.

Department of Energy, Equitable Solar Communities of Practice Community Convening: Resilience, Storage, and Grid Benefits

August 5, 2024

Join CEG for an interactive 2-hour session exploring the best practices, opportunities, and obstacles in advancing resilient power – solar PV paired with battery storage (solar+storage) – in historically marginalized communities.

California’s Flexible Demand Appliance Standards for Pool Controls Program – Employing Load Shifting to Lower Peak Demand and Avoid Emissions

August 15, 2024

In 2023, the California Energy Commission (CEC) created the first-in-the-world flexible demand appliance standard for residential swimming pool controls. In this CESA webinar, guest speakers from the CEC will present their award-winning Flexible Demand Appliance Standards for Pool Controls program, featuring CEC Commissioner Andrew McAllister.

Recent

CESA SLICE Award Webinar: MA Clean Energy Center and Clean Energy Finance and Investment Authority – Solar Programs

November 29, 2012

This webinar will review two State Leadership in Clean Energy Award winning solar programs from Massachusetts and Connecticut.

CESA SLICE Award Webinar: CA Energy Commission Synchrophasor R&D Program AND University of California, San Diego Microgrid

November 27, 2012

This webinar featured a presentation by the California Energy Commission on the UCSD Microgrid and Synchorphasor R&D Programs. These programs were recipients of the 2012 State Leadership in Clean Energy (SLICE) Awards.

CESA SLICE Award Winner Webinar: NH PUC – Woody Biomass Heating

November 19, 2012

This webinar will highlight details of one of the 2012 State Leadership in Clean Energy Award winning programs, the New Hampshire PUC’s Residential Wood-Pellet Boiler Rebate Program, and will focus on woody biomass heating technologies, and environmental impacts.

CESA SLICE Award Webinar: NYSERDA On-site Wind Development Program and NYSERDA Clean Energy Business Incubator Program

November 15, 2012

CESA will present this webinar to highlight the two award winning programs from NYSERDA.

ESTAP Webinar: Energy Storage Solutions for Microgrids

November 7, 2012

Clean Energy States Alliance (CESA) is pleased to host an upcoming webinar with Connecticut DEEP, in conjunction with Sandia National Laboratories and the U.S. DOE Office of Electricity, on energy storage.

RPS Webinar: Updates from Ohio and Oregon

November 5, 2012

This webinar, hosted by CESA’s State-Federal RPS Collaborative, features presentations by Stuart Siegfried, Environmental Specialist, Ohio Public Utilities Commission, and Rebecca O’Neil, Senior Policy Analyst, Oregon Department of Energy.

CESA Fall Meeting – Albany, NY

October 22, 2012

CESA Fall Meeting – Albany, NY – Oct. 22-23rd!

RPS Webinar: Structuring RPSs to Recognize the Value of Installed Renewable Capacity

October 3, 2012

This webinar will focus on a proposal to give special credit within renewable portfolio standards to technologies and projects that contribute to reserve margins. Adil Caner Sener wrote about this topic in an article in The Electricity Journal (“Redefining Renewable Portfolio Standards: The Value of Installed Capacity,” Jan./Feb. 2011). He will present his ideas in the webinar.

CESA Members’ Webinar: Finance 101

September 27, 2012

This webinar reviews finance options for clean energy deployment. Rob Sanders and Lise Dondy present.

RPS Webinar: The Integration Challenge

August 28, 2012

This month’s webinar of the State-Federal RPS Collaborative will focus on the challenge of integrating large quantities of renewable energy generation into regional electricity systems.