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

Community Storage: SMUD’s Energy StorageShares Program

July 17, 2025

Sacramento Municipal Utility District (SMUD) launched their innovative Energy StorageShares program in 2019. This program was the first virtual energy storage program in the US and allows commercial customers to invest in an off-site battery energy storage system and benefit from demand reduction cost savings without having to invest in a battery system at their…

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

July 21, 2025

This webinar highlights a new CESA report focusing on load growth and highlights the ways that states are preparing for an influx of energy demand in the coming years.

Recent

New Jersey Energy Storage Rebate Program

February 17, 2016

The New Jersey Energy Storage Program is back, this time in the form of an open enrollment prescriptive rebate that will offer $300/kWh for eligible systems. The $3 million rebate program opens March 1. Join us to learn about program rules and requirements from the New Jersey BPU.

Clean Energy Group’s Resilient Power Project: Providing “How To” Resources for Building Energy Resilient Communities

February 10, 2016

Clean Energy Group will be hosting a webinar to provide an introduction to the Resilient Power Project and an overview of the project’s free resources, which include reports, webinars, newsletters, and several new web-based tools.

Financing Solar+Storage with Federal Tax Credits

February 3, 2016

Join us for a presentation on ITC considerations for solar+storage projects from tax and financial advisory experts from DeLoitte Tax.

Hydropower and Renewable Portfolio Standards

February 2, 2016

This webinar will explore the role and treatment of hydropower in RPSs across the country.

NWRC Webinar: Maine’s Floating Offshore Wind Project Moving Forward

January 29, 2016

Guest speakers from the University of Maine’s Advanced Structures and Composite Center will present an update on the Maine Aqua Ventus project, a 12MW floating offshore wind pilot farm.

U.S. Renewable Portfolio Standards: Overview of Status and Key Trends

January 26, 2016

This webinar will feature a wide-ranging presentation on the overall status of RPSs around the country and observations about general trends.

ESTAP Webinar: State of the U.S. Energy Storage Industry

December 16, 2015

This webinar, presented by the Clean Energy States Alliance (CESA)’s Energy Storage Technology Advancement Partnership (ESTAP), provides an up-to-date look at the U.S. energy storage industry, including trends in technology, applications, pricing, financing, vendor landscape, markets, and relevant regulatory and legislative issues. Panelists include Ravi Manghani and Brett Simon of GTM Research.

Webinar – Clean Power Plan: Interactions and Implications for Renewable Energy Markets

November 19, 2015

Do you know how compliance with EPA’s Clean Power Plan (CPP) will affect your region’s voluntary and regulatory renewable energy markets? Do you know how carbon trading under mass-based and rate-based programs can be coordinated with existing REC trading?

Retrofits for Resiliency: How to Make an Existing Solar PV System into an Islandable Resilient Power System

November 12, 2015

This webinar, presented by CESA’s Energy Storage Technology Advancement Partnership (ESTAP), features a discussion on what is required, technically and economically, to retrofit an existing solar PV system with a new “smart” inverter and battery to make it islandable, so that it can continue to serve critical needs behind the meter when the grid is down. Panelists include Ben Schenkman of Sandia National Laboratories, Chris Larsen of Dynapower, and Dan Cohee of Pacific Data Electric.

2015 National Summit on RPS

November 5, 2015

The 2015 National Summit on RPS was hosted by the Clean Energy States Alliance (CESA), the Energy Foundation, and the U.S. Department of Energy.The Summit took place on Thursday, November 5th and Friday, November 6th.