Webinar & Events - 2025

Community-Led Energy Resilience: Lessons from the Clean Energy Incentive Navigator

December 11, 2025

CEG awarded funding to organizations in six cities to become local knowledge hubs for solar+storage technologies and available incentives. In this webinar, participating organizations will present on their experiences and lessons learned.

Offshore Wind Community Engagement: Recommendations for State Agencies

December 4, 2025

Offshore wind offers an enormous opportunity to build renewable, reliable, and domestic electricity, but states and developers must address its effects on local communities. This webinar discusses CESA’s new report which includes concrete steps that state agencies can take to meaningfully engage with communities as states plan for offshore wind projects.

Battery Energy Storage Systems in Massachusetts: Benefits and Safety Considerations

November 18, 2025

In this CEG webinar for Massachusetts communities, panelists discussed the different types of energy storage, fire safety considerations for first responders, and other environmental implications related to battery storage.

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.

2025 CESA Members Meeting

October 21, 2025

The 2025 CESA Members Meeting is designed exclusively for representatives of CESA member organizations. This will be an intimate and confidential event, focusing on: open-ended strategizing for how states can respond to federal energy policy changes while continuing to make clean energy progress; peer networking between state clean energy leaders; and information exchange on state programs and policies.

Front-of-Meter vs. Behind-the-Meter Batteries: An Economic Comparison for Massachusetts

October 8, 2025

This CEG webinar covers a report that compares the costs and benefits of one utility-scale, front-of-the-meter (FTM) battery system versus five commercial-scale, behind-the-meter (BTM) batteries of the same aggregate cost in Massachusetts.

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.

Labor Unions and Offshore Wind 101

September 16, 2025

This CESA webinar explores the role of labor unions in offshore wind projects, discussing how trades and unions are involved in construction, how unions train workers for future projects, and how state governments, unions, and offshore wind developers work together to ensure projects get built with high road labor standards.