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Alliance Events

Here's what happening, including both our Statewide calls and other Alliance-endorsed events. If there's an event you'd like us to endorse and post here, please contact us. Recordings of statewide calls are available to Alliance Members upon request. Please send all requests to admin@cacommunityenergy.org.

May 28, 2026 Statewide Call – Plugging In: How Advanced Geothermal Can Open Doors for Communities, Workers, and Clean Firm DERs

In this May 2026 Statewide Call, Woody Hastings explores how technologies developed …

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April 23, 2026 Statewide Call – Defining the Policy Landscape and Opportunities for Democratized Energy Systems

In this April 2026 Statewide Call, Zoe Bennett, Senior Policy Analyst at …

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March 26th, 2026 Statewide Call – CCA 3.0: Energy Democracy as a Climate End Game Mode

In this upcoming March 2026 Statewide Call, Paul Fenn, Founder and President …

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January 22, 2026 Statewide Call – Solar Incentives Are Still Alive: Who Can Still Qualify Under the OBBBA and How

In this January 2026 Statewide Call, Jose Torre-Bueno joins the California Alliance …

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December 4, 2025 Statewide Call – Year End Update

This presentation gives an overview of CACE’s work this year, including our …

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October 23, 2025 – Statewide Call Multi-Property Microgrids in California: Early Insights from the Microgrid Incentive Program (MIP)

In this October 2025 Statewide Call, Craig Lewis, Executive Director of the …

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September 25, 2025 Statewide Call: Last Call for Clean Energy Savings: What Homeowners and Businesses Need to Know

Federal clean energy incentives are changing, and the deadlines matter. In this …

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August 28, 2025 – Statewide Call Community Energy for Resilience Hubs

This month’s statewide call features Jessica Guadalupe Tovar, Executive Director of the …

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July 24, 2025, Statewide Call – Utility Wildfire Mitigation Spending – Is It Getting the Job Done?

This month’s CACE Statewide Call focused on one of California’s most urgent …

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Jun 26, 2025, Statewide Call – Solar Round Up: What’s Happening in the Courts and Our Community

This month’s CACE call brought together powerful updates on the future of …

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May 22, 2025, Statewide Call – Oakland EcoBlock: A Block-Scale Energy Retrofit

This month’s CACE call featured an inspiring presentation on the Oakland EcoBlock—a …

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March 27, 2025, Statewide Call – Modern Public Power

In this timely and energizing conversation, Bob Krause explores the idea of …

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February 27, 2025, Statewide Call – Oppose SB 540: The Pathway to Perdition

Join us for this month’s CACE call featuring Loretta Lynch, former President …

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Jan 23, 2025, Statewide Call – Debunking the Myth of the Solar Cost Shift

This month’s CACE call featured an important conversation on debunking one of …

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October 24, 2024, Statewide Call – Appeal of the PUC’s NEM 3.0 Decision at the California Supreme Court–The Last Chance to Make the PUC follow the law!

Join us for a discussion with Loretta Lynch and Barbara Stebbins as …

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September 26, 2024, Statewide Call – How Bi-Directional EV Charging can Reduce Transmission Needs

Join us for a discussion with Jose Torre-Bueno regarding how electric vehicles …

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Jul 25, 2024, Statewide Call – Pathways: The Empire Strikes Back

Join us for a discussion with Ruth Merino (Chair of San Jose …

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Jun 27, 2024, Statewide Call– Diablo Canyon: Built on 13 Faults, Cracked Pressure Vessel, What Could Go Wrong? (VIDEO AVAILABLE)

PG&E has applied for a 20-year license renewal of the 40-year-old Diablo …

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May 23, 2024, Statewide Call — Minimizing Transmission: Solutions for Exceeding 25% Local Energy (VIDEO AVAILABLE)

California’s current electrical planning processes consistently call for a greater amount of …

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Apr 25, 2024, Statewide Call — Bills, Policy and More – CA’s Capital is Buzzing!

Join Allison Hilliard, Senior Policy Analyst for Reimagine Power, in a run …

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Mar 28, 2024, Statewide Call — A Municipal Utility for San Diego?? It’s Gearing Up NOW..

In 2023, San Diego Gas & Electric made a profit of $936 …

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Feb 22, 2024, Statewide Call — Undermining Conservation, Raising Bills, Killing Solar and the Planet, All At Once

Alliance members have followed the so-called “Utility Tax” since it was announced …

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Jan 25, 2024, Statewide Call — Blueprint for a Bottom-Up Clean Equitable Energy Transition (Video Available)

For 100 years, electricity systems have been planned, built, owned and operated …

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Nov 30, 2023, Statewide Call — Mid-Transition Report to Members

Alliance members know that 2023 has been a tough year.  With the …

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Oct 26, 2023, Statewide Call — What Will It Take For Golden State Energy To Replace PG&E? (Video Available)

This month’s call featured Shaina Nanavati, organizer from the Reclaim Our Power …

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Sep 28, 2023, Statewide Call — Save Solar for Renters, Schools and Farms

To kick off our fall series of statewide calls, this month the …

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July 27, 2023, Statewide Call — Jailbreak: CAISO’s Quest to Shake Off CA Laws & Values

It’s July!  Each summer we welcome a close observer of California’s electricity …

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June 22, 2023, Statewide Call — The Struggle for Energy Democracy: Now and Ahead (Video Available)

The June Statewide call featured two speakers. Al Weinrub, longtime Coordinator of …

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May 25, 2023, Statewide Call – Fixed Utility Fees: The IOU’s Newest Attempt to Kill Local Clean Energy (Video Available)

This month’s call explored the topic of the Investor-Owned Utilities (IOUs) newest …

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Apr 27, 2023, Statewide Call – Transmission Line Madness (Video Available)

This month’s call featured featuring Bill Powers, of the Protect Our Communities …

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Mar 23, 2023, Statewide Call — What can Community Choice do in Spite of NEM 3.0?

Sabrinna Soldavini of Marin Clean Energy joined us to discuss the agency’s …

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Feb 23, 2023, Statewide Call — Reports from the Field on Advancing DERs in CCAs

This February, we turn to our members involved in their local Community …

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Jan 26, 2023, Statewide Call – A Challenge to the CPUC’s NEM Decision

Senior Attorney for the Center for Biological Diversity, Roger Lin, joins us …

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Dec 1, 2022, Statewide Call — CPUC: Attacking Rooftop Solar in the Name of Equity

The topic of discussion for this statewide call will be the Newsom …

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Oct 27, 2022, Statewide Call — Reimagining Energy For Our Communities US (REFOCUS) Campaign

This Statewide Call will focus on the Reimagined Energy for Our Communities, …

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Sep 29, 2022, Statewide Call — Legislative Setback for Community Energy

The end of the last legislative session came with a few wins …

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July 28, 2022, Statewide Call – In the Trenches of the Transition: One Step Forward, How Many Steps Backward?

We are pleased to announce that Loretta Lynch will be our July …

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June 23, 2022, Statewide Call – Is Community Choice Missing the Standards Boat?

NB: This date is the 4th (not the last) Thursday of the …

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May 26, 2022, Statewide Call – A High DER Future or Not?

Distributed Energy Resources (DERs) are transforming our electricity system. Rooftop solar, battery …

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Apr 28, 2022, Statewide Call – Obstacles to Equity in Energy Resilience

This month’s call continues the topic of “barriers to the deployment of …

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Mar 24, 2022, Statewide Call — Barriers to Microgrid Deployment (Video Available)

To realize the robust, decentralized electricity system of the future, microgrids are …

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Feb 17, 2022, Statewide Call — More Utility BS: Electrification vs Rooftop Solar

NB: This date is the 3rd Thursday, not our usual 4th.   We …

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Jan 20, 2022, Statewide Call — Newsom’s CPUC vs the People of California

NOTE Change of Date — This call is a week earlier than …

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Dec 16, 2021, Statewide Call — CCAs and NEM: Pro or Con?

For the last call of 2021, we focus on the Net Energy …

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Oct 28, 2021, Statewide Call — High DER or Hostile DER Future?

In June, the CPUC announced what might turn into an extremely important …

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Sept 23, 2021, Statewide Call — Our Take on the CPUC’s “Avoided Cost Calculator”

The future of local distributed energy resources (DERs) hangs on the savings …

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July 22, 2021 — The Sons of ENRON Ride Again While Californians Pay and Pay

Twenty Years Later, Where is the Breaking Point?  Has anything changed??  These …

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June 24, 2021, Statewide Call — Deconstructing the IOU Profit Model

Whether through legislative measures like AB 1139 to kill local renewables, ongoing …

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May 27, 2021, Statewide Call – AB 1139 “Utility Profit Grab” Crucial to Community Choice

This month we focus again on the utilities’ attempts to control every …

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Apr 29, 2021, Statewide Call – “Cost Shift or Utility Theft?”

Our April Statewide call focuses on an issue fundamental to the future …

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