Resources

Publications of the Local Clean Energy Alliance

• Community Choice Energy: Democratizing Municipal-Scale Power
  A paper that highlights the strategy of the Local Clean Energy Alliance for empowering communities and democratizing energy through Community Choice energy programs; February 2017
• Toward a Climate Justice Energy Platform: Democratizing Our Energy Future
  Lays out a vision, political framework, strategies, and principles of democratized energy development as the basis for a proposed platform to advance climate justice in the U.S. Includes model policies and programs and snapshots of advocacy to democratize energy from around the country; December 2015
• East Bay Community Choice Energy: From Concept to Implementation
  Examines the potential benefits of creating an Community Choice energy program, how it works, and the process of establishing it. The A to Z of Community Choice for any locality; February 2014
• What the Heck is a REC?
  This short 12-page publication explains the ins and outs of Renewable Energy Certificates (RECs), both bundled and unbundled, especially their significance for electricity procurement by Community Choice energy programs; October 2013
• Community Power:Decentralized Renewable Energy in Califormia
  A report detailing the benefits of decentralized renewable energy systems over remote, centralized renewable energy systems; January 2011
• 21st Century Greenprint; a 2008 LCEA seminal document highlighting the centrality of Community Choice energy programs to "green" development.

Resources on energy democracy
This page provides information about the national Energy Democracy Project and provides many kinds of resources (documents, videos, and articles) regarding the movement to democratize energy in the United States.

Resources on Community Choice energy
This page has links to background information, major references, video presentations on Community Choice and web sites for Northern California Community Choice energy programs.

Resources on decentralized renewable energy

• Labor's Stake in Decentralized Energy: A Strategic Perspective; a paper prepared by Al Weinrub for the Energy Emergency, Energy Transition global trade union roundtable, October 2012.
• Community Power:Decentralized Renewable Energy in Califormia; a report by Al Weinrub detailing the benefits of decentralized renewable energy systems over remote, centralized renewable energy systems. Includes a section on Community Choice energy on pages 23-26.
• Bay Area Smart Energy 2020; a report by Bill Powers detailing the possibilties of clean energy development  in the Bay Area.
• 21st Century Greenprint; a 2008 LCEA seminal document highlighting the centrality of Community Choice energy programs to "green" development.

Other local clean energy resources

• Prop 16 - The PG&E Power Grab
• Videos: Youtube
• Climate Justice
• An Environmental Justice Tool: The Jacobson Effect

Links (Extremely Outdated)

• State Energy Policy
• Asset-Based Supply
• Public Power vs. PG&E
• Streamlining the Solar Permitting Process
• Additional Documents