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SUMMARY:Our Shared Solar Future: Expanding Access through Community Solar hosted by Grid Alternatives
DESCRIPTION:GRID Alternatives GLA is proud to announce the fourth event in our Los Angeles Energy and Equity Policy Series (LEEPS)\, “Our Shared Solar Future: Expanding Access through Community Solar.” \nCommunity solar has emerged across the country as a powerful policy strategy to encourage clean energy equity. The event will introduce attendees to the concept of community solar and its potential to expand solar access to our most vulnerable communities\, including those households who face the greatest adoption barriers such as renters. Our panel of experts and advocates will review successful community solar case studies from around the country\, with specific focus on programs that deliver benefits to low-income customers. Panelists will then turn focus to California and discuss our state’s recent community solar policy developments\, as well as additional steps that must be taken to ensure significant utility bill savings for the households that need it most. \nWe’re honored to announce our lunch keynote: Commissioner Martha Guzman Aceves from the California Public Utilities Commissioner. \nAgenda\nCoffee and Registration (9:30am)\nLight breakfast will be served. \nWelcoming Comments (10:00am)\nJeannine Pearce\, Councilwoman\, City of Long Beach \n\nPANEL 1 (10:20am) – Community Solar Successes from around the Country\nThroughout the country\, community solar has emerged as a viable policy option for the expansion of solar access and energy equity. This panel will review the community solar successes from around the country\, particularly as they pertain to low-income communities\, and discuss what lessons can be learned as community solar begins to take root in California. \n\nMarta Tomic\, Program Director\, Vote Solar\nTom Figel\, Director of Community Solar\, GRID Alternatives\n\n\nJuan Parra\, Community Solar Program Manager\, Solar One\nJaimes Valdez\, Policy Manager\, Spark Northwest\nJake Levine\, Associate and Policy Adviser\, Covington & Burling\, LLP\n\nPANEL 2 (11:40am) – California’s Community Solar Policy Landscape: Now and Into the Future\nIn 2018\, community solar policy developments occurred on multiple fronts throughout California. The California Public Utilities Commission passed the “Green Tariff Community Solar” program to establish a new statewide community solar tariff\, the California Department of Community Services and Development released $5 million in grant funding for the implementation of low-income community solar pilot projects\, and investor-owned utilities such as Southern California Edison (SCE) submitted for approval a suite of shared solar programs including SCE’s Community Renewables Program. This panel will review the year’s policy developments and look forward to a future community solar policy landscape that ensures solar access to the most vulnerable Californians. \n\nTed Bardacke\, Executive Director\, Clean Power Alliance\nAnthony Hernandez\, Principal Manager\, Energy Procurement and Management\, Southern California Edison\nCrystal Huang\, CEO\, People Power Solar Cooperative\nBrandon Smithwood\, Policy Director\, Coalition for Community Solar Access\nElise Hunter\, Policy & Regulatory Affairs Director\, GRID Alternatives\n\nLUNCH AND KEYNOTE DISCUSSION (1:00pm)\nMartha Guzman Aceves\, Commissioner\, California Public Utilities Commission \n#LEEPS #sharedsolar #solar #communitysolar #renewableenergy #GRIDAlternatives #solarforall #energyjustice \n\nAbout GRID Alternatives Greater Los Angeles\nGRID Alternatives Greater Los Angeles is an affiliate of GRID Alternatives\, the nation’s largest nonprofit solar installer\, bringing clean energy technology and job training to underserved communities. To date\, GRID GLA has installed 1\,862 solar electric systems for low-income households\, creating $44 million in lifetime utility savings\, preventing 83\,000 tons of greenhouse gas emissions and training 4\,000 people along the way. For more information\, visit www.gridalternatives.org/gla \n*If you have any questions or qualify for a reduced ticket price (students\, Veterans)\, please contact Briget Arndell at barndell@gridalternatives.org. \nThis event is made possible by The 11th Hour Project\, a program of the Schmidt Family Foundation.
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