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CESA operates nine active working groups that meet on a regular basis. These Working Group meetings provide the most important updates on the policy issues you care about and allow you as a CESA Member to provide critical insights that shape CESA positions and California policy.
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Schedule for July 2023
California Independent System Operator (CAISO)
Mondays at 11am PT: 7/10 and 7/24
Distributed Energy Resources (DER)
Wednesdays at 9:30am PT: 7/12
Emerging Technology and Long Duration Storage
Tuesdays at 9am PT: 7/11
Integrated Resources Plan (IRP)
Thursdays at 1pm PT: 7/27
Fridays at 9am PT
Thursdays at 1pm PT: 7/20
Tuesdays at 9am PT: 7/25
CESA’s 5 Key Areas of Focus:
1. Advocating for policy results that yield real energy storage procurement on both sides of the meter.
CESA’s intervention through the Integrated Resource Planning process supported identification of over 11,000 MW of battery and long-duration storage and advocated for the case for 3,300 MW of storage to be procured by 2023. Once procurement goals are announced, CESA continues to support its by advocating for accelerating the CPUC contract approval process.
2. Defending storage to ensures long-term market stability.
CESA is leading Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) settlement negotiations to disband efforts to impose unreasonable Wholesale Distribution Access Tariffs (WDAT) on storage by a California Investor-Owned Utility, defending against tactics that could spread to storage projects outside of California.
3. Shapes the market to value the true benefits of storage, of all types.
CESA’s technical experts have continuously act to shape the Resource Adequacy program, a main revenue source for utility-scale and aggregated storage, and reform the program to realize the capacity value of each types of energy storage (including hybrid resources, long-duration, and behind-the-meter).
4. Brings funding to behind-the-meter storage projects in disadvantaged communities and wildfire-risk zones.
CESA successfully shaped the program around the state’s greenhouse gas emission goals and resiliency priorities and advocated for the CPUC to unlock $100M in stuck Self-Generation Incentive Program (SGIP) funds for shovel-ready energy storage projects.
5. Creates new markets and commercial opportunities for emerging storage applications.
Advocacy and modeling initiatives launched to build out a market for long-duration energy storage.