Webinar & Events - 2026

An Introduction to Virtual Power Plants (VPPs)

September 29, 2026

Virtual power plants (VPPs) have the potential to help meet rising electricity demand while saving billions of dollars annually in avoided costs. This CESA webinar will cover the basics of VPPs and how they can create value for both utilities and customers.

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.

The Road Forward for Medium- and Long-Duration Energy Storage

September 9, 2026

This ESTAP webinar will provide a summary of emerging technologies, applications, and markets for MDES and LDES.

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.

Members-Only: Special Water Cooler: Interview with Sonia Aggarwal & Franz Litz

August 25, 2026
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Mobile Solar+Storage: Emergency Response in New Orleans with the First Beehive Microgrid

August 18, 2026

This CEG webinar covered 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 explored 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.

Members-Only: Energy Equity Working Group – Data Centers and Community Benefits

July 30, 2026
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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

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 topic. At this meeting, we heard from Leslie Leavoy, Vice President of Strategic Communications & Public Relations at Lilette Advisors.