Task Forces
Organizing for Action
Where Members Move From Listening to Leading
Members of our issue-based task forces share their knowledge, expertise, and enthusiasm for collaboration.
What Task Forces Are
Our Task Forces, launched in 2026, build on the foundation we’ve already created together.
Over the past year, we strengthened statewide coordination, hosted consistent Statewide Calls, and deepened relationships across California’s community energy landscape.
Deeper Member Engagement
Task Forces serve as a direct extension of our statewide calls and create dedicated spaces for members who want to:
If you’ve been looking for a way to move from listening to leading, this is your opportunity.
Explore Our Task Forces
Choose where you want to learn, contribute, and lead.
Community Renewables
Breaking Down Barriers to Community-Based Renewable Energy
This task force works to clear regulatory hurdles standing between California communities and locally-owned renewable energy.
Task Force Activities:
- Identifies the legal, legislative, and regulatory challenges blocking the expansion of community-based renewable energy
- Finds ways to advance community renewables, even within the constraints of current state regulations
- Helps get pilot projects off the ground, from early identification through practical implementation
- Expands real-world alternatives that strengthen local energy resilience and independence
Energy Justice Education
Making Energy Policy Make Sense
California’s energy system is complicated by design, and the communities most affected by it are often the ones with the least access to understand it. This Task Force exists to close that gap.
Task Force Activities:
- Translates complex energy policy language into accessible, community-centered materials
- Builds curriculum, workshops, and creative educational tools that help communities advocate for themselves
Community Choice Agencies
Pursuing Energy Solutions for California Communities
This task force examines the role Community Choice Agencies (CCAs) play in advancing, or potentially limiting, community-centered energy solutions.
Task Force Activities:
- Examines how CCAs are operating across California
- Looks at where CCAs are aligning with distributed energy and community power goals, and where there are opportunities to improve
- Explores strategies for engagement, accountability, and partnership with CCAs so they fulfill their promise of serving communities first
Task Force Projects
Community Renewables Task Force Advisory Network
The Advisory Network for the Community Renewables Task Force supports efforts to expand distributed energy resources (DER) and community renewable projects in California.
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Members of our issue-based task forces share their knowledge, expertise, and enthusiasm for collaboration. These issue-based groups work directly alongside the Steering Committee to coordinate advocacy across California.
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