Webinar & Events - 2026

2026 CESA Members Meeting

September 15, 2026

The annual CESA Members Meeting is designed exclusively for representatives of CESA member organizations. This event will emphasize discussion, group activities, and state-level innovations.

Data Centers and Energy Usage 101: Impacts on the Electric Grid

September 1, 2026

This CEG webinar is a primer for the data center industry and will provide important information on data center energy usage estimates.

Mobile Solar+Storage: Emergency Response in New Orleans with the First Beehive Microgrid

August 18, 2026

This CEG webinar covers the Beehive Microgrid, a new solar+storage model that serves populations vulnerable to power outages by equipping emergency management personnel and first responders with resilient, flexible, and mobile power systems.

Beyond Lithium, Part 3: Form Energy’s Iron-Air Battery

August 6, 2026

This session will explore Form Energy, manufacturer of 100-hour, iron-air battery systems, with a manufacturing facility in West Virginia, a demonstration project in Minnesota, and a commercial pipeline of over 750 megawatts/75 gigawatt-hours under agreement.

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.

Water Cooler – Energy Affordability Messaging Resources for CESA Members

July 14, 2026

RESOURCES: TOUGH QUESTIONS GUIDE FOR CESA MEMBERS | CLEAN ENERGY POLLING & MESSAGING GUIDE | COMMUNITY EVENTS CHECKLIST | DIGITAL ASSETS & ADVERTISING TOOLKIT PRESENTATION SLIDES As a continuation of our work helping CESA members improve public education efforts around clean/renewable energy affordability benefits, CESA launched three Water Cooler meetings as a series on this…

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.

Members-Only: Water Cooler – Engaging with the Media on Energy Affordability

June 16, 2026
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Members-Only: CESA x HEET Networked Geothermal Working Group Meeting – Site Suitability: Key Findings from Minnesota

June 12, 2026
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Beyond Lithium, Part 2: ESS Tech’s Iron Flow Battery

June 3, 2026

CEG’s “Beyond Lithium” webinar series spotlights the emerging energy storage technologies beyond lithium-ion batteries. This session will explore ESS Tech, Inc., a leading manufacturer of iron flow long-duration energy storage systems with multiple projects in development.