
Envisioning the Grid for the Future webinar – 30 January 2025
The Clean Coalition is a partner organization for this webinar, which takes place on 30 January 2025 at 10am.
The Climate Center believes in thriving, healthy communities. They envision a future where everyone in California enjoys clean air and water, renewable and reliable energy, healthy food, and abundant nature. California has the tools and the know-how to make this vision a reality if our elected leaders summon the political will. It is time we put people back at the heart of policy. In doing so, we can keep our friends and loved ones safe from worsening climate disasters, create millions of family-sustaining jobs, and give everyone the chance to thrive in the clean energy economy.
Imagine a future in which every suitable rooftop in California is covered with solar panels. The panels provide power to a resilient network of microgrids and batteries that make electricity more reliable for millions of Californians, even during climate disasters like the fires devastating Los Angeles this week. All electric vehicles can export energy from their batteries to power homes, businesses, and the grid. Energy is cheap and reliable. The air is clean. No one suffers the health burden of living near a fossil fuel power plant.
Achieving that vision will require policies that allow more Californians to take advantage of bidirectional EVs, rooftop solar, and other local, clean energy solutions.
In this webinar, we will hear from experts about what this vision might look like and what policies can deliver clean, affordable, reliable electricity for all.
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Featured Speakers
Shiriel King Abramson
Shiriel is a Community Energy Resilience Specialist for The Climate Center. She researches, writes, and advocates for policies that advance a more resilient, reliable, equitable, and environmentally sound energy system in California. Prior to joining The Climate Center, she facilitated a Dayenu Circle in Los Altos, CA. She holds an M.A. in Sustainability Science and Practice from Stanford University.
Jasmin Ansar
Dr. Ansar joined The Climate Center in September of 2022 as a Senior Climate Researcher to research and develop optimal policies to address the climate change emergency at speed and scale. Dr. Ansar is an economist who began her career as a professor and has been employed in both the private and public sectors. She has been a Climate Economist at the Union of Concerned Scientists and worked on designing and advocating for effective global warming policies with particular emphasis on proposals in California. Supervisor.
Roger Lin
Roger is a Senior Attorney for the Center for Biological Diversity. He works in the Center’s Energy Justice program advocating for an equitable clean energy future. Prior to joining the Center, he worked with environmental justice organizations throughout California and has litigated environmental justice and civil rights cases. He is an author of the textbook, Environmental Justice, Law, Policy and Regulation, and served on California’s Disadvantaged Communities Advisory Group. Roger received his law degree from Golden Gate University School of Law and a bachelor’s degree from Stanford University.
Emi Yoko-Young
Emi joined the Reclaim Our Power: Utility Justice Campaign as the Policy Organizer in February 2024. She brings over a decade of experience working at the intersection of policy and people in movement organizing spaces. Emi sees her role as bridging the divide between the needs that communities have expressed and the technical resources and policy practitioners in the environmental, health equity, and racial justice space. She believes that only in coalition and with the elevation of everybody’s strengths can we build the solutions that lead to a safe, affordable, and reliable energy future. She believes that movement building is what will change our culture and bring us collective liberation.
Quentin Gee
Quentin Gee is a manager in the Energy Assessments Division of the California Energy Commission. He oversees forecasting of new electrification technologies (transportation, building electrification, and energy efficiency). Incorporating California’s leading climate policies, these forecasts are critical inputs into electricity system planning processes, including resource procurement, transmission, and distribution.