Webinar & Events - Electric Grid

The Cheapest Way to Meet Rising Electricity Demand

July 29, 2026

This CESA webinar covers a report by Energy Innovation that says the US can meet load growth with clean energy much more cheaply than by meeting it with fossil fuels.

The AI Power Problem: Why Battery Storage is Crucial to Data Center Development

June 24, 2026

Battery energy storage is rapidly becoming a core design requirement for data center infrastructure and can address many of the issues that AI presents to the energy grid. This ESTAP webinar discussed the landscape of battery storage and data centers and the emerging “bring your own capacity” model.

How States Can Address Load Growth While Decarbonizing

March 11, 2026

In this CESA webinar, authors of a new report covered strategies to address rapid load growth while decarbonizing, such as prioritizing energy efficiency, demand response and virtual power plant programs, energy storage, incentives for clean energy generation, and more.

MassCEC’s Vehicle-to-Everything Demonstration Program

November 12, 2025

This CEG webinar highlighted 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 covers 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 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.