PAEC news and events
The Peninsula Advanced Energy Community (PAEC) Initiative accelerated the planning, approval, and deployment of an Advanced Energy Community in southern San Mateo County, California. An important goal of the Initiative was to provide a model for other communities around the US. The PAEC team disseminated the valuable lessons learned from the Initiative through media coverage, blog posts on the Clean Coalition site, and a series of events.
News
Media coverage
- Permitting 2.0: A crucial step on the road to our clean energy future |PV Magazine (September 22, 2018)
- How solar emergency microgrids provide resilience to vulnerable communities | PV Magazine (May 21, 2018)
- How Solar Emergency Microgrids Keep the Lights on After Natural Disasters | PV Solar Report (March 26, 2018)
- Solutions for Connecting Local Renewable Energy to the Grid More Quickly | PV Solar Report (October 2, 2017)
- An EPIC Approach to Deploying Advanced Energy Communities | Local Government Commission (December 22, 2016)
Press releases
- Solutions for connecting local renewable energy to the grid more quickly (September 28, 2017)
- Solar Siting Survey identifies substantial solar potential on built environments in California’s southern San Mateo County (May 17, 2017)
Blog posts
- Bridging the gap: PAEC Master Case Study reveals ways to accelerate advanced energy solutions (May 31, 2018)
- Supercharging the expansion of electric vehicle charging infrastructure (April 30, 2018)
- Splitting up with split incentives (March 31, 2018)
- Keeping the lights on after natural disasters (February 28, 2018)
- Energy storage is about to take off (January 31, 2018)
- Model ordinances: Showing the way to a clean energy future (December 25, 2017)
- Building owners may be losing money by not investing in energy efficiency (November 28, 2017)
- What Puerto Rico teaches us about power resilience for all communities (October 25, 2017)
- No heat molecule left behind: Stanford’s district-level heat recovery system (September 29, 2017)
- Collaborating and innovating to expand clean local energy in San Mateo County (August 31, 2017)
- Connecting renewables to the grid faster … much faster (July 31, 2017)
- Best practices encouraging clean local energy deployment in California (June 30, 2017)
- Expanding electric vehicle charging infrastructure in Palo Alto (May 31, 2017)
- A pathway to zero net energy: Atherton, California (April 30, 2017)
- Palo Alto’s Jewish Community Center: Heating and cooling in newer, cleaner ways (March 31, 2017)
- Solar Siting Survey: Identifying vast potential for clean energy in southern San Mateo County (February 28, 2017)
- The reality of implementing 100% clean local energy (January 31, 2017)
- Palo Alto is aiming high by going low … carbon (December 29, 2016)
- Peninsula Advanced Energy Community launches, will provide framework for the future of clean energy (November 16, 2016)
- California Energy Commission selects the Peninsula Advanced Energy Community for grant award (March 29, 2016)
Events
Webinars
In the Best practices for building Advanced Energy Communities webinar series, from January through June 2018, the authors of groundbreaking PAEC studies presented highlights of their findings.
- January 31, 2018: Economics of energy efficiency and fuel switching for commercial-scale buildings
- February 27, 2018: How Solar Siting Surveys identify the potential for local solar generation
- March 28, 2018: Innovative approaches to energy efficiency retrofits
- April 24, 2018: Supercharging the buildout of electric vehicle charging infrastructure
- June 5, 2018: Streamlining interconnection of advanced energy solutions to the grid
- June 20, 2018: Accelerating the transition to a clean local energy future
Presentations
- Supercharging the Buildout of Electric Vehicle Charging Infrastructure (RICAPS meeting, May 22, 2018)
- PAEC Technical Advisory Committee Meeting #2 (May 3, 2018)
- PAEC Technical Advisory Committee https://clean-coalition.orgMeeting #1 (July 25, 2017)