Webinar & Events - Electric Grid

MassCEC’s Vehicle-to-Everything Demonstration Program

November 12, 2025

This CEG webinar will highlight the Massachusetts Clean Energy Center’s Vehicle-to-Everything Demonstration Projects program, which provides funding to residential, commercial, and school district applicants to install bi-directional EV chargers at no cost.

Tools to Tackle Affordability and Cost Allocation in Electricity Rate Design

November 6, 2025

This CESA webinar will cover how the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) is addressing rate challenges in the electricity industry and helping to make the grid of the future affordable.

Local Strategies for Data Center Reform

October 30, 2025

In this Clean Energy Group webinar, panelists working in Louisiana, Virginia, and Pennsylvania will discuss how their organizations are pushing for guardrails to protect local communities from some of the harms that data center proposals can bring.

Members-Only: The Prospects for Clean Energy: A Briefing for CESA Members

September 30, 2025
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For State and Federal Employees: NREL’s Procurement Analysis Tool

September 29, 2025

This CESA webinar for state and federal officials provided an overview of NREL’s Procurement Analysis Tool, a free, user-friendly resource designed to help public and private energy buyers plan and screen utility-scale off-site electricity procurement options.

Load Growth: What States Are Doing to Accommodate Increasing Electric Demand

July 21, 2025

This webinar highlights a CESA report focusing on load growth and highlights the ways that states are preparing for an influx of energy demand in the coming years.

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 presented their award-winning Flexible Demand Appliance Standards for Pool Controls program, featuring CEC Commissioner Andrew McAllister.

Energy Storage Interconnection – Challenges and Solutions

May 21, 2024

Energy storage projects face unique operational attributes that are often not well accounted for in current interconnection processes, and this can lead to storage projects facing undue burdens that may ultimately cause them to become uneconomical. In this webinar, policy experts examined the problem and discussed new initiatives designed to address interconnection challenges.

Leveraging Federal Funding for Transmission Technologies and Renewable Energy Integration

August 22, 2023

The Inflation Reduction Act will dramatically accelerate renewable energy development, and the transmission grid will need substantial upgrades to accommodate the shifting generation portfolio. “Grid Enhancing Technologies,” as they were named by FERC, can unlock flexibility and additional capacity on the existing transmission infrastructure, enabling twice as much renewable generation in some regions.

Applying New Data from NREL’s State and Local Planning for Energy (SLOPE) Platform

January 27, 2021

This webinar will explore the newly updated State and Local Planning for Energy (SLOPE) Platform and applications for clean energy planning.