Local CLEAN Program Guide “Evaluating Avoided Costs” Module - Clean Coalition

Local CLEAN Program Guide “Evaluating Avoided Costs” Module

This module provides approaches for assessing the avoided costs of CLEAN energy and will help local utilities design cost-effective CLEAN Programs.

Craig Lewis

The Clean Coalition just released a new module of its Local CLEAN Program Guide, a comprehensive how-to guide for communities and utilities across the nation to evaluate, design, and enact Clean Local Energy Accessible Now (CLEAN) Programs based on global best practices for increasing the amount of cost-effective renewables and allowing a community to benefit from the associated economic benefits.

The Evaluating Avoided Costs module provides approaches for assessing the avoided costs of CLEAN energy and will help local utilities design cost-effective CLEAN Programs that take advantage of the avoided costs and the superior value of CLEAN local energy.  The avoided cost evaluation is an important consideration when designing a CLEAN Program because it shows that the “sticker price” expressed by power purchase agreements does not include the many hidden costs that the utility pays for avoided generation or the “external” costs of energy generation that have a substantial impact on the community, but incur no cost to the utility.

Please visit www.clean-coalition.org/local-action/ to download a free copy of the Local CLEAN Program Guide.  If you would like to become a local advocate for deploying a CLEAN Program in your community, please email LocalGuide@Clean-Coalition.org.  Sign-up here on our mailing list to receive the Clean Coalition monthly newsletter and to be notified when the additional modules are ready for release.

Craig Lewis

Founder and Executive Director

Craig has over 30 years of experience in the renewables, wireless, semiconductor, and banking industries. Previously VP of Government Relations at GreenVolts, he was the first to successfully navigate a solar project through California’s Renewable Portfolio Standard solicitation process. Craig was also the energy policy lead on Steve Westly’s 2006 California gubernatorial campaign, and his resume includes senior government relations, corporate development, and marketing positions at leading wireless, semiconductor, and banking companies such as Qualcomm, Ericsson, and Barclays Bank.