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How States Can Address Load Growth While Decarbonizing

January 21, 2026

This CESA report aims to help state officials, as well as other stakeholders, understand how policymakers can respond to electric load growth in ways that continue to advance decarbonization of the electricity system.

What States Need to Know About Plug-In Solar

January 9, 2026

This paper provides information and guidance on plug-in solar configurations, regulatory issues, economics, and safety concerns.

“How to Make Solar for All a Reality”: Summary of Opportunities for Funders and Allies

December 3, 2025

Broadening access remains critical to achieve affordability, reliability, and decarbonization goals with solar and solar+storage. A group of nonprofit and Tribal Solar for All grantees produced a summary of the funding, policy, and communication strategies that potential funders and allies seeking to continue this work can prioritize. Among others, strategies include supporting virtual power plant…

Strengthening Offshore Wind Community Engagement: Recommendations for State Agencies

November 12, 2025

This report, coauthored by Equnival Partners and informed by a CESA-led working group of state agencies and community-based organizations, offers concrete steps that state agencies can take to meaningfully engage with communities as states plan for offshore wind projects. These recommendations provide a roadmap for communities to shape how they benefit from investments in offshore wind power.

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

July 2, 2025

This report surveys the causes of electricity load growth and outlines what the states are doing to meet the challenge.

Meaningful Household Savings: Best Practices for Achieving Equitable Solar Development

January 8, 2025

This report compiles research on best practices for designing solar programs that provide meaningful benefits to low-and-moderate income households. The report examines different types of solar projects, including residential-serving community solar, rooftop solar, and installations serving multifamily affordable housing. It includes six case studies and information about savings verification.

Energy Storage Program Design for Peak Demand Reduction

December 18, 2024

This issue brief, released by Clean Energy Group and CESA, outlines best practices and lessons learned for state policymakers and regulators engaged in developing energy storage peak demand reduction programs. The brief explores key elements of program design, such as incentive mechanisms and dispatch methods, as well as considerations for incentivizing load reduction versus power export, and peak demand reduction versus emission reduction.

Bridging the Gap: How Emerging State Policies are Making Energy Storage Affordable and Accessible

December 12, 2024

This report from CESA and Sandia National Labs compiles the results of independent research, providing a summary of emerging affordability and accessibility approaches in leading state energy storage programs. It is intended as a reference material that can be used in state energy storage policymaking across diverse geographical and regulatory jurisdictions.

Recommendations for Solar with Justice: Connecting States and Communities

September 26, 2024

This paper presents recommendations to help state energy agencies design and implement equitable stakeholder engagement strategies for their solar programs.

Tribal-State Collaboration on Sustainability and Solar Development: A Case Study of the Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe

September 17, 2024

This case study explores the Tribal-State relationship through the experiences of the Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe, which shares geography with Minnesota. Over the past decade, the Band has built relationships with state agencies in support of renewable energy and sustainability programs.