Celebrating Women’s History Month with Clean Energy
This Women's History Month MCE, is celebrating the progress of both clean energy and the women who have helped pave the way for a more sustainable future for MCE customers. In this blog, you’ll learn more about some of the women who have made our work possible, highlighting the pivotal role women play in [...]
$19 Million in Electricity Bill Relief Delivered to Bay Area Residents
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: March 13, 2023 MCE Press Contact:Jenna Tenney, Manager of Communications and Community Engagement(925) 378-6747 | communications@mceCleanEnergy.org SAN RAFAEL and CONCORD, Calif. — California’s community energy providers aren’t just fighting climate change, they’re fighting for economic equity. Rising energy costs place a disproportionate burden on members of traditionally disadvantaged communities and MCE [...]
MCE Adopts Resolution Committing to Advance Racial Equity
Resolution Furthers MCE’s Energy Equity Values FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: June 16, 2021 MCE Press Contact: Jenna Famular, Marketing & Communications Manager (925) 378-6747 | jfamular@mcecleanenergy.org SAN RAFAEL and CONCORD, Calif. — On May 20, 2021, MCE’s Board of Directors approved Resolution No 2021-04 Committing to Advance Racial Equity. This decision further solidifies MCE’s long-standing commitment to [...]
Learn How MCE Can Help You Reduce Your Energy Burden
January is Poverty Awareness Month, and MCE recognizes the additional burdens that COVID-19 has created for American households. The 2018 California Poverty Measure estimates that approximately one third of Californians were considered at or close to the federal poverty level, meaning they lacked enough resources to meet basic needs. The American Council for an Energy-Efficient [...]
Native American Heritage Month: Charlie Toledo
November is Native American Heritage month, an important opportunity to reflect on and celebrate the history and cultures of Native Americans. This month we are proud to highlight Charlie Toledo, Executive Director of Suscol Intertribal Council, for her significant contributions to sustainability and increasing visibility and accessibility of resources for indigenous populations. Suscol Intertribal [...]
MCE’s Community Reinvestment: The Power of Community Choice
This series explores the ways environmental justice is essential to MCE’s mission to address climate change by reducing energy-related greenhouse gas emissions through renewable energy and energy efficiency. As California’s first Community Choice Aggregation (CCA) Program, MCE is a groundbreaking, not-for-profit, public agency that has been setting the standard for [...]
MCE’s Community Partnerships Build Environmental Equity
As a not-for-profit public agency, MCE is committed to creating more equitable communities while addressing climate change through renewable energy, energy efficiency, and local economic and workforce benefits. Community partnerships with organizations across our service area are essential to buildling equitable outcomes across our service area. MCE recently partnered with Canal Alliance, a non-profit [...]
MCE’s Commitment to a Just Transition
This series explores the ways environmental justice is essential to MCE’s mission to address climate change by reducing energy-related greenhouse gas emissions through renewable energy and energy efficiency. Over the past several weeks, California’s fire season began with a literal bang. An unprecedented lightning storm struck the Bay Area, igniting fires across the region [...]
Environmental Equity Means Breaking Barriers
This series explores the ways environmental justice is essential to MCE’s mission to address climate change by reducing energy-related greenhouse gas emissions through renewable energy and energy efficiency. Environmental Equity Requires Partnerships to Break Barriers Our agency would not exist without partnerships. MCE was created out of a partnership between California cities, towns, and counties, [...]
MCE Provides Off-Grid Portable Batteries to 100 Medically Vulnerable Residents
California’s upcoming fire season represents a risk of power outages for customers throughout the state. MCE is working with customers in our service area to help alleviate the strain of these outages by offering energy resiliency solutions to ensure a reliable supply of energy. Being energy resilient allows customers to keep necessary electricity flowing [...]