News, press, and events

8 October 2018

Distribution Deferral: California’s Alternative to Non-Wires Alternatives

GTM Squared reports that California’s DDORs are the first step in creating an annual process to allow distributed energy resources to bid to replace distribution grid investments.

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5 October 2018

Updating California’s Anti-Solar Utility Billing For Transmission

CleanTechnica reports how California’s ratepayers pay for the transmission of electricity their utilities don’t use to serve them.

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5 October 2018

CAISO Developing Transmission Access Charge Proposal

California Energy Markets reports on changes to the structure of CAISO's transmission access charge that have been in place since 2001.

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Webinar: Unleashing commercial-scale renewable energy with feed-in tariffs

Executive Director Craig Lewis presented at this free webinar produced by the Municipal Sustainability & Energy Forum on November 20, 2018 from 9am – 10am PT.

Montecito Community Microgrid Initiative Public Meeting

Executive Director Craig Lewis presented at this event on November 14, 2018 in Santa Barbara, CA.