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Microgrid Knowledge reports on the Santa Barbara Unified School District's RFP for a solar and resilience project that encompasses 15 locations.
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Action alerts
The following are actions the Clean Coalition recommends in support of accelerating the transition to renewable energy and a modern grid by furthering wholesale distributed generation (WDG), Community Microgrids, and more.
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Past action alerts
✅ Support clean local energy resources and resilience in Santa Barbara County
Please join the Clean Coalition in supporting the Strauss Wind Energy Project at the County of Santa Barbara Planning Commission meeting this Wednesday 20 November, starting at 9am. Comments can be emailed in advance to David Villalobos at dvillalo@co.santa-barbara.ca.us.
Details on the project and the Planning Commission meeting are here.
✅ Provide feedback to the CPUC on Rule 21 Project Plan
Workshop on Rule 21 Program Evaluation — Draft Research Plan: 27 June 2019, 9am PT
This workshop provided an opportunity to give feedback to the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) on the Rule 21 Program project plan and research questions. The CPUC is undertaking a comprehensive evaluation of utility administration of the Rule 21 tariff to provide data and insight into each utility’s administration of the tariff. Rule 21 describes the process a developer must follow to connect their distributed energy resource (DER) to the grid.
How to attend the meeting and talking points
✅ Tell the CPUC to support WDG interconnection
Rule 21 Interconnection Discussion Forum: 25 June 2019, 1:45pm PT
At the quarterly meeting of the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) Rule 21 Interconnection Discussion Forum, this topic was discussed: Utilities commonly require wholesale systems interconnecting under Rule 21 to install separate interconnecti
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