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

2012 National Summit on RPS – December 3-4th in Washington, DC

December 3, 2012

2012 National Summit on RPS for the members of the State-Federal RPS Collaborative.

CESA SLICE Award Webinar: MA Clean Energy Center and Clean Energy Finance and Investment Authority – Solar Programs

November 29, 2012

This webinar will review two State Leadership in Clean Energy Award winning solar programs from Massachusetts and Connecticut.

CESA SLICE Award Webinar: CA Energy Commission Synchrophasor R&D Program AND University of California, San Diego Microgrid

November 27, 2012

This webinar featured a presentation by the California Energy Commission on the UCSD Microgrid and Synchorphasor R&D Programs. These programs were recipients of the 2012 State Leadership in Clean Energy (SLICE) Awards.

CESA SLICE Award Winner Webinar: NH PUC – Woody Biomass Heating

November 19, 2012

This webinar will highlight details of one of the 2012 State Leadership in Clean Energy Award winning programs, the New Hampshire PUC’s Residential Wood-Pellet Boiler Rebate Program, and will focus on woody biomass heating technologies, and environmental impacts.

CESA SLICE Award Webinar: NYSERDA On-site Wind Development Program and NYSERDA Clean Energy Business Incubator Program

November 15, 2012

CESA will present this webinar to highlight the two award winning programs from NYSERDA.

ESTAP Webinar: Energy Storage Solutions for Microgrids

November 7, 2012

Clean Energy States Alliance (CESA) is pleased to host an upcoming webinar with Connecticut DEEP, in conjunction with Sandia National Laboratories and the U.S. DOE Office of Electricity, on energy storage.

RPS Webinar: Updates from Ohio and Oregon

November 5, 2012

This webinar, hosted by CESA’s State-Federal RPS Collaborative, features presentations by Stuart Siegfried, Environmental Specialist, Ohio Public Utilities Commission, and Rebecca O’Neil, Senior Policy Analyst, Oregon Department of Energy.

CESA Fall Meeting – Albany, NY

October 22, 2012

CESA Fall Meeting – Albany, NY – Oct. 22-23rd!

RPS Webinar: Structuring RPSs to Recognize the Value of Installed Renewable Capacity

October 3, 2012

This webinar will focus on a proposal to give special credit within renewable portfolio standards to technologies and projects that contribute to reserve margins. Adil Caner Sener wrote about this topic in an article in The Electricity Journal (“Redefining Renewable Portfolio Standards: The Value of Installed Capacity,” Jan./Feb. 2011). He will present his ideas in the webinar.

CESA Members’ Webinar: Finance 101

September 27, 2012

This webinar reviews finance options for clean energy deployment. Rob Sanders and Lise Dondy present.