South Bay Clean Power

History of South Bay Clean Power and our Future

At the November 18, 2014 South Bay CCA Study Session at Hermosa Beach City Hall’s City Council Chambers, South Bay Clean Power’s co-chair, Joe Galliani, spoke about how SBCP came to be and where its strategy moving forward:

South Bay Comes Together To Study Community Choice Power

On November 18, 2014 representatives from Manhattan Beach, Hermosa Beach, Redondo Beach, Torrance, Inglewood, Hawthorne, Lomita, Palos Verdes Estates, Santa Moncia, the South Bay Cities Council of Governments and The Los Angeles Regional Collaborative for Climate Action and Sustainability came together at Hermosa Beach City Hall’s Council Chamber for a Community Choice Aggregation (CCA) Study Session hosted by the City of Hermosa Beach and South Bay Clean Power.

In this video segment, Councilmember Michael DiVirgilo welcomes the audience, followed by City Manager, Tom Bakaly, who talks about the city’s efforts thus far on Community Choice Power

It’s A New Day For Energy Storage In California

We’re about 2 years away from launching our own Community Choice Power program here in the South Bay and it’s great to know that options for renewable energy storage are going to make 100% renewable energy more and more possible.  Whether it’s utility scale storage or what the industry calls “behind the meter” storage in municipal, residential, commercial and industrial buildings.  

Last week Southern California Edison surprised the electric energy world when instead of ordering the expected 50 MW (megawatts) of energy storage, SCE instead ordered 250 MW of storage power.

Another important aspect of this move is that it was done on a completely level playing field.  SCE decided to purchase 250 MW of energy storage because it felt it had a higher value than any other generation asset (including natural gas, wind and solar).  That in itself is an extremely important positive note for the energy storage industry.

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