The Bay Area is incredibly well-positioned for a transition to a local clean energy economy, perhaps more so than any other region in this country. The Local Clean Energy Alliance (LCEA) is an alliance of local nonprofits Bay Localize, Ecology Center, KyotoUSA, Pacific Environment, and the Sierra Club, and businesses including Sun Light & Power, SunEnergy, Nomad Café, and Crunchy Foods.View the list of alliance members.

Our policy priorities are:

1. A comprehensive and equitable Energy Reduction Management program that reduces overall energy use as well as how much spend on energy, while creating local jobs. The campaign includes public administration of EE funds collected in the public goods charge, a point of sale ordinance, and on-bill financing of energy efficiency retrofits.
2. Enrolling Bay Area cities to convince the CPUC to adopt a “High Distributed Generation” scenario in which PG&E would be ordered to procure a substantial portion of it’s renewables from distributed generation sources. Bay Area cities would benefit from renewable projects sited in their limits that would be subsidized through ratepayer recovery (as all generating facilities are). 
4. Defend Community Choice Energy programs. This effort will be to build a Bay Area wide political base for promoting and defending local Community Choice initiatives. One particular objective is to create a Community Choice program in Oakland.

A comprehensive energy savings program that 

Please consider joining the alliance and/or endorsing Community Choice Energy now. You can join or endorse as an individual and/or as an organization.

Endorse Community Choice Energy By endorsing Community Choice Energy, you and/or your organization assert that you are

1. In agreement with the goals of the Community Choice Energy to meet 51% of our electricity needs with renewable energy by 2017.
2. Believe Community Choice Energy is the best way to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, bring local control to our energy system, and create green jobs.
3. Supportive of Oakland, Berkeley, and other East Bay cities taking the next step of forming a Joint Powers Authority to move forward with Community Choice Energy in the East Bay.

Join the Local Clean Energy AllianceBy joining the Alliance as an individual, you affirm that you are

1. In agreement with the goals of the Local Clean Energy Alliance, most notably to meet 100% of our electricity needs with a balanced mix of efficiency, conservation, and renewable energy by 2033.
2. Willing to support the Local Clean Energy Alliance campaigns as appropriate

By joining the Alliance as an organization, your organization affirms that it is:

1. In agreement with the goals of the Local Clean Energy Alliance, most notably to meet 100% of our electricity needs with a balanced mix of efficiency, conservation, and renewable energy by 2033.
2. Providing a representative who can be contacted by Alliance leadership about any issue or policy or program about which the Alliance needs your opinion.
3. Willing to participate in at least 2 meetings/actions of the Alliance per year. These could include participating in Alliance general meetings, appearing in person at city council meetings or other appropriate occasions at which the Alliance needs a show of force, or writing individual letters to governmental decision makers.

Take a look at our membership categories. 

We are coordinating efforts to mobilize East Bay residents, businesses, and organizations around a regional agenda that creates green-collar jobs, reduces pollution and greenhouse gas emissions, and brings affordable, clean energy to our communities.  We need your energy, connections, and support. 

 

 

Please join and/or endorse now!