LISTSERV: June Updates

Reports:

• California Energy Futures Report was officially released by the California Council on Science and Technology (CCST) on May 24th. For this and other CCST energy reports, visit: http://www.ccst.us/publications/index.php Attendees of the April 4, 2011 Cal-IRES Forum heard a preview of results, which can be seen in video or in highlights on the forum proceedings page: http://cal-ires.ucdavis.edu/events/2011-cal-ires-forum/
• The California Energy Commission has published the PIER project report: Energy-Efficient Community Development in California: Chula Vista
  

News:
5/19: Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom joined UC Davis Chancellor Linda Katehi, California Energy Commissioner Carla Peterman and others for a tour of UC Davis West Village, being billed as the largest zero net energy development of its kind in the country. http://www.ltg.ca.gov/news.php?id=25 Background: In September 2010, the California Public Utilities Commission awarded UC Davis $2.495 million under the California Solar Initiative RD&D Solicitation #2 to complete a program of research, development and demonstration targeting 1) innovative production technologies and 2) innovative business models related to solar PV. The Cal-IRES Program is charged with managing the former and the West Village Energy Initiative Project Team is charged with managing the latter. A portion of this research builds on the California Energy Commission's Renewable Energy Secure Communities (RESCO) Project.

Events:

• 6/7: 10-11:30 am PDT (1: 2:30 pm Eastern) WEBINAR: Offshore Wind: Port and Staging Area Needs and Status.
  
• May reports, presentations and recordings of six California Energy Commission 2011 Integrated Energy Policy Report (IEPR) Workshop Proceedings held in May.
  

Pending California Renewable Energy Integration Legislation:

• SB 679 (Pavley) This bill would appropriate all unencumbered funds originally appropriated in SB 77 and designated for Property Assessed Clean Energy (PACE) programs. The Senate Appropriations Committee reduced the appropriation from $50 million to $25 for low-interest energy efficiency revolving loans to local governments and public institutions.
• SB 771 (Kehoe) The California Alternative Energy and Advanced Transportation Financing Authority is charged with establishing a renewable energy program to provide financial assistance to public power entities, independent generators, utilities, or businesses manufacturing components or systems to generate new and renewable energy sources, etc. This bill would expand the definition of "renewable energy" to include energy generation based on landfill gas turbines, digester gas turbines, and microturbines.
• SB 790 (Leno) This bill would clarify the statutes that authorize local governments to implement Community Choice Aggregation, a program that allows communities to pool, or aggregate, the electric load of their residents, businesses and other institutions in order to procure and generate electricity on their behalf.

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