Upcoming Webinars

Community Storage: SMUD’s Energy StorageShares Program

July 17, 2025

This CEG webinar profiles Sacramento’s Energy StorageShares program, the first virtual energy storage program in the US and allows commercial customers to invest in an off-site battery energy storage system and benefit from demand reduction cost savings without having to invest in a battery system at their facility.

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Load Growth: What States Are Doing to Accommodate Increasing Electric Demand

July 21, 2025

This webinar highlights a new CESA report focusing on load growth and highlights the ways that states are preparing for an influx of energy demand in the coming years.

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Archived Webinar Recordings

Long-Duration Energy Storage: A Panel Discussion

June 2, 2025

Long-duration energy storage (LDES), often defined as eight hours of storage or longer, is beginning to emerge as the next big leap in the evolution of the electric grid. In this panel discussion, experts representing state, utility, and academic viewpoints addressed questions about LDES from their perspective.

Equitable Solar Communities of Practice: Resilience, Storage, and Grid Benefits

October 8, 2024

The Department of Energy (DOE) Solar Energy Technologies Office (SETO) launched the Equitable Solar Communities of Practice program in November 2023 to support the expansion of equitable benefits in solar adoption. The program consists of five communities of practice that work to identify resource gaps, support the development and dissemination of best practices and resources,…

Building Equitable Practices & Programs: A Conversation with Energy Equity Leaders

April 5, 2024

This CESA webinar featured a fireside chat with energy equity experts to discuss best practices for states to responsibly engage with communities as they develop and implement clean energy programs.

Energy Storage in Chattanooga, TN: Creating Community Resiliency and Peak Demand Reduction with EPB

November 8, 2023

EPB, a municipal electric distribution utility serving approximately 190,000 homes and businesses in Chattanooga, Tennessee, has installed energy storage systems at four locations in its service territory. The energy storage systems provide resiliency for critical community facilities, as well as peak demand reduction, which saves money for EPB’s customers.

Behind-the-Meter Energy Storage: Comparing State Policies

November 17, 2022

A new report by NREL compares behind-the-meter battery storage across all fifty states. This first-of-its-kind BTM storage policy stack includes 11 parent policy categories, and 31 associated policies divided across the market preparation, creation, and expansion policy components.

Evaluating the Capabilities of Behind-the-Meter Solar+Storage for Providing Backup Power during Long-Duration Power Interruptions

October 20, 2022

Customer-sited solar+storage can help homes and businesses maintain essential activities during grid outages. A new report by Berkeley Lab estimates the performance of commercially available solar+storage systems in providing behind-the-meter critical-load or whole-building backup power during long-duration outages.

Informing Energy Storage and Storage-Enabled Microgrid Project Decisions Using EPRI’s DER-VET™

August 24, 2022

The webinar will present on analysis frameworks, case studies, and applications of EPRI’s Distributed Energy Resource Value Estimation Tool (DER-VET™) utilized across a large array of grid applications for a variety of stakeholders—including customers, technology providers and developers, utilities, and regulators.

Use of Operating Agreements and Energy Storage to Reduce Photovoltaic Interconnection Costs

March 23, 2022

This webinar explores one integrated technical and process concept designed to manage interconnection costs and streamline interconnection timelines to support near-term renewable energy deployment.

Energy Storage for Winter Grid Reliability: Lessons from Massachusetts

December 16, 2021

Winter electric peaking capacity services are currently undervalued in the Massachusetts programs that provide battery customers with performance payments to supply power back to the grid at times of high demand.

Benefits of Scaling Local Solar and Storage

November 22, 2021

Local Solar for All’s Karl Rabago will discuss how advanced utility planning modeling shows that scaling local distributed energy resources can lead to a least-cost clean grid.

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