Keeping Up With SBCP | South Bay Clean Power

Thank You Supervisors Don Knabe & Sheila Kuehl!

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

This Is The Kind of Community Choice Power Program South Bay Clean Power Is Committed To Building

Climate Action Santa Monica Presents: Why Community Choice Energy Is The Right Choice For Santa Monica & LA County

On May 31, Climate Action Santa Monica hosted a forum featuring Joe Galliani of South Bay Clean Power and Shawn Marshall (via webinar) of LEAN Energy US. Shawn explains what a Community Choice Aggregation (CCA) program is, how they function, and how well they’re working for Marin Clean Energy, Sonoma Clean Power, and Lancaster Choice Energy. Joe shares the history of South Bay Clean Power’s initiative and its then status and progress. If you weren’t among the almost 200 people in attendance that fine day, here are their complete presentations.

New UCLA Study Says South Bay Clean Power is Right for Santa Monica. Most Powerful Tool for Cutting Greenhouse Gas Emissions

We’ve had an advance look at the 2015 UCLA Practicum Report for The City of Santa Monica – Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions produced by UCLA Institute of Environment and Sustainability under the direction of Juan Matute. It’s a blockbuster report full of extraordinary data that will help decision makers in the region with energy planning.

Here’s the biggest headline from our perspetive:

The report makes a strong case for the power of a local Community Choice Power program to reduce emissions beyond all other measures available: Read More

Community Choice Comes to the Biltmore in Downtown Los Angeles May 18

Although not available to the general public, this high level Community Choice Aggregation Forum for local electeds, their staff and key decision makers here in Southern California is another sign of our growing momentum and broad interest in CCAs.

We are proud to have introduced this topic into the local zeitgeist last year and to have South Bay Clean Power’s initiative driving the attention and progress as we seek to build a Community Choice Power program that helps us transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy as rapidly as can be done.

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Posted on March 9, 2015 by creativegreenius

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