CESA Webinars & Events

Below is the list of our upcoming and most recent webinars. All of our webinars are free to attend, but registration is required. Click on the titles of the upcoming webinars below to read more and register.

Upcoming

Battery Storage for Fossil-Fueled Peaker Power Plant Replacement: A Maine Case Study

April 30, 2024

Speakers from Strategen and CESA will discuss a new analysis which shows that battery storage can cost effectively replace aging fossil-fueled peaker power plants in New England.

Equity Strategies for LA’s 100% Clean Energy Transition

May 2, 2024

The LA100 Equity Strategies project provides community-guided, data-driven strategies for increasing equity in LA’s transition to 100% clean energy. Most of the findings and methodologies are relevant to states with similar goals.

Micro-Financing and Locally Led Development: A Scalable Model for Resilient Power in Rural Communities

May 16, 2024

This webinar will feature the Solar Village Project, a non-profit organization dedicated to providing solar+storage to schools, clinics and homes in rural India and Puerto Rico, helping with health, education, and home life as well as climate change.

Energy Storage Interconnection – Challenges and Solutions

May 21, 2024

Energy storage projects face unique operational attributes that are often not well accounted for in current interconnection processes, and this can lead to storage projects facing undue burdens that may ultimately cause them to become uneconomical. In this webinar, policy experts will examine the problem and discuss new initiatives designed to address interconnection challenges.

CESA 2024 Members Meeting

June 3, 2024

CESA’s 2024 Members Meeting will take place on June 3-4 in Chicago, Illinois. This annual event is filled with learning, networking, and information-sharing activities.

Recent

Streamlining Residential Solar Permitting Processes at the Municipal Level: Lessons from California

February 20, 2015

The Clean Energy States Alliance hosted a webinar on California’s approach to residential solar photovoltaic (PV) permitting.

RPS Collaborative Webinar: The Effect of State Policy Suites on Solar Markets

February 2, 2015

This webinar features a discussion of NREL’s recent report “The Effect of State Policy Suites on the Development of Solar Markets.” This report examined policy-related and non-policy-based factors that have influenced state solar markets.

CEG Webinar: New Initiatives in Community Resilient Power

January 30, 2015

This webinar, presented by Clean Energy Group’s Resilient Power Project, features Rob Sanders of Clean Energy Group, Jared Lang of National Housing Trust, and Tom Osdoba of Enterprise Community Partners for a discussion of the lessons learned in the early development of community resilient power projects in New York City, Washington DC and throughout the country.

CESA State Leadership in Clean Energy Webinar: Achieving Net Zero in Alaska and Oregon

January 23, 2015

This webinar highlighted two winning programs from CESA’s 2014 State Leadership in Clean Energy Awards that have worked towards the goal of achieving “net zero.”

CESA State Leadership in Clean Energy Webinar: Clean Energy from Coast to Coast, featuring California and Connecticut

January 16, 2015

This webinar will highlight two winning programs from CESA’s 2014 State Leadership in Clean Energy Awards.

CEG Webinar: What Investors Want: How to Scale Up Demand for US Clean Energy and Green Bonds

January 14, 2015

Clean Energy Group and Croatan Institute have released the first comprehensive study of U.S. institutional investors’ appetite for green bonds. In this webinar, guest speakers from Clean Energy Group and Croatan Institute will discuss their findings.

ESTAP Webinar: DOE OE Energy Storage Safety Strategic Plan

January 14, 2015

This webinar, presented by the Clean Energy States Alliance (CESA)’s Energy Storage Technology Advancement Partnership (ESTAP), features a discussion on the US Department of Energy Office of Electricity (DOE-OE)’s energy storage safety strategic plan. Panelists include Dr. Imre Gyuk of the US DOE-OE, Sean Hearne of Sandia National Labs, Kenneth Willette of the National Fire Protection Association, and Vincent Sprenkle of the Pacific Northwestern National Laboratory.

Clean Energy Group Webinar: Energy Storage in FERC Territories

January 9, 2015

This webinar, presented by Clean Energy Group’s Resilient Power Project, features Judith Judson of Customized Energy Solutions to provide updates on the changing rules and markets for ancillary services in various ISOs, RTOs, and other electricity service territories.

CESA State Leadership in Clean Energy Webinar: Accelerating Resilient Power in Connecticut and New York

December 16, 2014

This webinar highlighted two winning programs from CESA’s 2014 State Leadership in Clean Energy Awards: The Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection (CTDEEP)’s Microgrid Program, and the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA)’s CHP Acceleration Program. Guest speakers included Dana Levy of NYSERDA, and Veronica Szczerkowski and Tracy Babbidge of CTDEEP.

NWRC Webinar: Training a Domestic Skilled Workforce to Support the Development of a US Offshore Wind Industry

December 11, 2014

This webinar, presented by the Northeast Wind Resource Center (NWRC), features a discussion on the standards and skills needed to prepare US workers to meet the needs of the emerging offshore wind industry. Panelists include Earl Walker of Siemens Energy, and Megan Amsler of Self-Reliance Corporation/ North Atlantic Offshore Training and Development Center.