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.

Using LIHEAP and WAP to Expand Low-Income Solar Access

May 9, 2024

NREL’s new report chronicles their efforts to document successful LIHEAP and WAP implementation pathways. In this CESA webinar, report authors will discuss their findings and explore effective ways that WAP and LIHEAP state agencies can bring solar to their clients.

Batteries 101, Part 1: An Introduction to Energy Storage and Massachusetts’ Battery Storage Programs and Policies

May 15, 2024

In a special, Massachusetts-focused webinar series by CEG and CESA, experts will answer your questions about energy storage. This first webinar in the series will cover battery storage basics and available incentives.

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

RPS Collaborative Webinar: Tracking Systems and Section 111(d) State Plans

December 10, 2014

In this webinar, Lars Kvale of APX summarized and discussed his recent report “Using Tracking Systems with the Implementation of Section 111(d) State Plans.”

CESA State Leadership in Clean Energy Webinar: Economic Development and Job Growth in Massachusetts and New Mexico

December 8, 2014

This webinar will highlight two winning programs from CESA’s 2014 State Leadership in Clean Energy Awards: Massachusetts Clean Energy Center’s Clean Energy Internship Program, and New Mexico Energy Conservation and Management Division’s Renewable Energy Production Tax Credit. In two very different ways, both Massachusetts and New Mexico’s programs have worked to accelerate renewable energy market growth in their state.

Clean Energy Group Webinar: MassDOER Resilient Power Solicitation Results

December 3, 2014

This webinar, presented by Clean Energy Group’s Resilient Power Project, highlights the Massachusetts Department of Energy Resources (MassDOER)’s $40 million Community Clean Energy Resiliency Initiative and the recently announced resilient power projects receiving grants under the program. The guest speaker for this webinar was MassDOER’s Amy McGuire.

Clean Energy Group Webinar: Financing Resilient Power

November 20, 2014

This webinar, presented by Clean Energy Group’s Resilient Power Project, provides an overview of the challenges and strategies for financing clean, resilient power systems. Panelists include Rob Sanders of Clean Energy Group and Henry Misas of Bright Power.

CESA Membership Meeting, Annapolis – Fall 2014

November 17, 2014

CESA Fall Membership Meeting

RPS Collaborative Webinar: A Status Update on Renewable Portfolio Standards

November 6, 2014

This webinar will repeat a popular session from the recent RPS Summit, where Galen Barbose reviewed the overall status of RPSs around the country, including data on RPS compliance, costs, and generation capacity resulting from RPSs.

CEG Webinar: New Jersey’s Energy Resilience Bank

October 29, 2014

This webinar, presented by Clean Energy Group’s Resilient Power Project, featured a discussion on New Jersey’s recently created “Energy Resilience Bank (ERB).” ERB director Mitch Carpen and deputy director Thomas Walker presented information about the bank and the funding opportunities it will offer.

ESTAP Webinar: Flow Battery Basics, Part 2

October 29, 2014

This webinar, presented by CESA’s Energy Storage Technology Advancement Partnership (ESTAP), features Andrew Marshall from Primus Power and Tracy Montoya from Raytheon Ktech, who discussed their products and answered questions from viewers. The webinar also featured an introduction to flow battery technology by Dr. Imre Gyuk of U.S. DOE Office of Electricity, and a discussion of flow battery testing and technological readiness by Dan Borneo of Sandia National Laboratories.

RPS Webinar: Ending the Solar Tug of War: Can There Be Common Ground on Net Metering?

October 15, 2014

This webinar will explore whether there are policy approaches that can gain broad support by simultaneously supporting continued vigorous solar development and protecting utilities’ core interests.

Clean Energy Group Webinar: An Introduction to Resilient Power

October 8, 2014

This webinar, presented by Clean Energy Group’s Resilient Power Project, outlines the dangers that power outages can pose to low-income communities and vulnerable populations, the weaknesses of traditional backup power sources, and the opportunities for communities to create more power resilient critical facilities with clean and dependable energy technologies. Panelists include Lew Milford, Todd Olinsky-Paul and Rob Sanders from Clean Energy Group.