Today we were delighted to be in the great City of Long Beach to meet with Gas and Oil Department staff about Community Choice Power and how being part of the LA County CCA program might work for Long Beach. We were happy to share what we know and answer their questions because we’d like to see Long Beach go 100% renewable as quickly as possible.
On March 4 we traveled to the heart of the Silicon Valley, San Jose, California, to participate in the sold out statewide symposium: Community Choice Aggregation gathering, “Creating the Clean Energy Economy: The Business of Local Energy”
The Symposium’s keynote speakers and panel discussions focused on Community Choice energy and how to optimize competition and choice for significant greenhouse gas reduction, energy resiliency, and local economic gain.
The event attracted a sold-out crowd of 350 people from all over California, including 48 speakers who discussed Community Choice from diverse perspectives and areas of expertise.
South Bay Clean Power Chair, Joe Galliani, spoke on the “Work in Process: Forming Community Choice Energy Agencies – Issues and Opportunities” panel which was moderated by Margaret Bruce, of Manzanita Consulting Associates. Also participating on that panel was Supervisor Dave Pine, San Mateo County; Melody Tovar, Regulatory Programs Division Manager at City of Sunnyvale; and San Francisco Public Utilities Commissioner, Barbara Hale,
The entire day’s program was expertly designed to inform attendees about the entire spectrum of Community Choice interests and expertise – those in the early investigative stages, elected officials in the process of setting up a program, and energy entrepreneurs developing technology to green the grid – to spark creative discussions and innovative solutions. It did exactly that for us! Read More
At the third Los Angeles County Community Choice Aggregation Task Force meeting held in the City of Monrovia on Wednesday, February 24, reports from the County’s CCA consultants were featured – as well as a report from Joe Galliani, Chair of South Bay Clean Power and SBCP’s economic and workforce development partner, Los Angeles NECA Chapter Manager, Jim Willson.
Here’s what Howard Choy, General Manager, Los Angeles County Office of Sustainability, had to say in his introduction to the South Bay Clean Power presentation:
I want to add that we appreciate the work South Bay Clean Power is doing and what I would like to see is the cities, the COGs, organize themselves similarly to start generating interest and venues where we can then come and start providing more information about the County’s CCA efforts.
Here’s a video recording of the entire two hour County Task Force meeting including all presentations via the Go-to Meeting capture:
When our friends in Supervisor Don Knabe’s and Supervisor Sheila Kuehl’s office saw that the County was to receive $21,700, 000 from the CPUC for County energy efficiency programs with no mention of the County’s new Community Choice Aggregation program, they quickly added an amendment to correct that…
Here’s Supervisor Don Knabe reading the amendment he and Supervisor Sheila Kuehl added on the Feb 16, 2016 agenda directing staff to look at the potential for using the $21.7 million in energy efficiency funding for the new LA County CCA
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