CSE

Center for Sustainable Energy

CSE offers experience, insight and practical recommendations that help inform the public debate on policies affecting the energy marketplace and lead to the creation of effective and equitable solutions and programs.

By leveraging our extensive program administration experience and deep knowledge of current energy sector best practices, our policy team provides an innovative feedback loop to help governments and others reach their clean energy goals. We identify solutions, shape strategies and advocate processes that empower consumers at all socio-economic levels and accelerate the adoption of sustainable energy.

Our goal is to engage with governments, industry, nonprofits and other stakeholders in California and across the nation to facilitate investment in and consumer adoption of clean energy, distributed energy resources and electrified transportation.

 

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Legislative Resources

During the 2016-17 legislative session CSE actively monitored and conducted analysis on energy legislation in California. Listed below are our priority bills from this session.

  • AB 1341, Calderón: Proposed an income tax rebate for EVs in place of CVRP
  • AB 193, Cervantes: Air Quality Improvement Program: Clean Reused Vehicle Rebate Project
  • SB 1, Beall: Transportation funding
  • SB 41, Galgiani: State Air Resources Board: compliance: regulations
  • SB 53, Hueso: Natural gas vehicles
  • SB 100, De León: achieve a state renewable resources target of 60% by Dec. 2030
  • SB 700, Wiener: Energy Storage Initiative; energy storage market transformation program
  • SB 356, Skinner: Improving access to green button and grid‐level data
  • AB 797, Irwin: Continuation of CSI Thermal
  • AB 378, Garcia: Greenhouse gases, criteria air pollutants, and toxic air contaminants
  • AB 398, Garcia: California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006: market‐based compliance mechanisms
  • AB 1414, Friedman: Solar energy systems: permits
  • AB 1552, Quirk – Silva: Electricity: distributed generation
  • AB 1573, Bloom: Green Tariff Shared Renewables Program
  • AB 1662, Obernolte: Net Energy Metering
  • SB 57, Stern: Natural gas storage moratorium
  • SB 64, Wieckowski: Independent System Operator: integration of generation from renewable energy resources
  • SB 71, Wiener: Electricity: solar energy systems
  • SB 263, Levya: Climate Assistance Centers
  • SB 366, Levya: Electrical corporations: Green Tariff Shared Renewables Program
  • SB 775, Wieckowski: California Global Warming
  • SB 801, Stern: Aliso Canyon natural gas storage facility
  • SB 242, Skinner: Establishes statewide PACE best practice standards
  • AB 271, Caballero: Property Assessed Clean Energy program
  • AB 419, Salas: Zero net energy residential buildings reporting
  • AB 1431, Arambula: Energy efficiency: renewable energy resources and energy affordability
  • SB 370, Hertzberg: Energy Efficiency
  • SB 385, Hueso: Public Utilities Commission - ex parte communications
  • SB 518, De Leon: Clean energy job creation, citizen oversight board

Research and Reports

CSE provides timely research and reports to inform clean energy policies and regulation.