Events

CESA National Membership Meeting - Portland, OR

CESA - RPS Webinar: Reverse Auctions, Renewable Energy, and RPS

This webinar will describe the advantages and disadvantages of the reverse auction approach and will provide advice for state policymakers who may wish to consider using reverse auctions. It will give special attention to California’s Renewable Auction Mechanism. This will be a joint webinar for CESA members and members of the RPS Collaborative. Warren Leon, CESA’s RPS Collaborative Project Director, will be the host.

Energy Storage Webinar: Federal Regulatory Energy Storage Policy

In this webinar, we will review the federal regulatory landscape for energy storage, specifically FERC Order 755, FERC Order 890 (which directs ISOs/RTOs to develop tariffs, market rules, and control algorithms and to open markets for new technologies that provide ancillary services), and other aspects of FERC treatment of energy storage and how these affect ISOs, energy storage device owners, and energy storage technology manufacturers.

METAP Webinar: National Laboratory Activities to Support Marine Energy Technology Progress

On January 12, 2012, Clean Energy States Alliance will host a webinar to explore the National Laboratories’ support activities for marine hydrokinetic technologies (MHK).

This webinar is designed as a briefing for MHK stakeholders by representatives from the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), Sandia National Laboratory, and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory regarding their major activities and research to support marine energy commercialization and deployment.

UNEP SEF Alliance Webinar: Evaluating Clean Energy Public Finance Mechanisms

This webinar will cover the results of the recently released UNEP SEF Alliance/Climate Bonds Initiative /Irbaris report, "Evaluating Clean Energy Public Finance Mechanisms." The report evaluates government funding of programs supporting the low-carbon, clean energy economy; it also examines the effectiveness of different types of public finance mechanisms at different stages of the clean energy continuum and how they perform in different environments.

RPS Webinar: Energy Storage and Renewable Portfolio Standards

This webinar will explore the role of energy storage in state RPS, including facilitating the integration of an increasingly higher penetration of renewables and the interpretation of energy storage as a generation resource. We will review and highlight examples of state RPS that include energy storage while exploring the benefits of energy storage to an RPS portfolio and the challenges for integrating storage into new and existing RPS programs.