MCE’s Roadmap for Energy Innovation, Equity, and Resiliency
MCE is meeting state renewable energy and climate goals light-years ahead of schedule, ensuring grid reliability and resiliency, boosting the green economy, and offering programs that benefit underserved communities. Every year we update our Operational Integrated Resource Plan, using it as a 10-year roadmap to help MCE set the standard for reducing energy-related greenhouse [...]
MCE’s Latest Project: Strauss Wind
Since 2010, MCE has invested more than $2.1 billion in new California renewable projects, increasing the renewable energy content on the grid and supporting a clean energy workforce. Read MCE’s blog to stay up to date with new local projects and see your dollars at work. In [...]
MCE Continues to Lead in California Renewable Electricity Innovation
MCE's 2020 power supply mix vastly exceeds state renewable energy average FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: September 29, 2021 MCE Press Contact: Jenna Tenney, Marketing & Communications Manager (925) 378-6747 | communications@mceCleanEnergy.org SAN RAFAEL and CONCORD, Calif. — MCE is excited to announce the release of its 2020 Power Content Label, which showcases MCE’s leadership in renewable [...]
NavigaDER: Using the Tool to Calculate Customer Distribution Energy Resource Impacts for CCAs
In a previous blogpost, MCE introduced NavigaDER, a new software designed to enable Community Choice Agencies (CCAs) to make informed decisions about strategic distributed energy resource (DER) program planning. In this article, we explain how the software conducts its optimization analysis to project the impacts of DER program scenarios. Greenhouse Gas Emissions NavigaDER calculates [...]
MCE Partners for 160 MW New California Solar Energy
Longroad Energy Acquires First Solar's Little Bear Solar Portfolio FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: March 2, 2020 MCE Press Contact: Jenna Famular, Communications Manager (925) 378-6747 | jfamular@mcecleanenergy.org TEMPE, Ariz. and SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. — US-headquartered First Solar, Inc. (Nasdaq: FSLR) announced today that Longroad Energy is the acquirer of four solar projects with a combined capacity [...]
New Incentives and Improvements Added to MCE’s Feed-in Tariff Program
MCE’s Feed-in Tariff (FIT) program was created in 2010 to promote the development of new renewable energy projects in MCE’s service area. By providing a standard offer contract with fixed pricing to developers at above-market rates, MCE aims to help overcome barriers to Bay Area renewable energy development. To date, MCE’s FIT program has [...]
Pollinator-Friendly Ground Cover Now Required for New Solar Projects
MCE is excited to announce a pollinator program requirement designed to safeguard critical habitats.* MCE is the first Community Choice Aggregation (CCA) program that requires new solar project partners to plant pollinator-friendly ground cover throughout the project site and submit a pollinator scorecard every three years. This new requirement – which applies to both [...]
Announcing MCE’s 2020 Open Season Request for Offers
As part of MCE’s mission to reduce electricity-related greenhouse gas emissions by offering customers competitively-priced renewable electricity service options, MCE is pleased to announce its 2020 Open Season procurement process. Open Season provides a competitive and objectively-administered opportunity for qualified suppliers of energy and energy storage products to fulfill MCE’s resource requirements. The specific products [...]
New Napa County Solar Project Powers 1,000+ Homes Per Year
Renewable Properties & MCE Celebrate Completion of American Canyon Solar Project FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Aug. 27, 2019 MCE Press Contact: Kalicia Pivirotto | Marketing Manager (415) 464-6036 | kpivirotto@mceCleanEnergy.org Renewable Properties Press Contact: Stephanie Loucas 415-710-3834 | stephanie@renewprop.com NAPA COUNTY, Calif. — MCE and Renewable Properties celebrated the completion of MCE’s first local, renewable [...]
One of Largest Operational CCA Solar Projects in California Now Online
MCE and sPower recently announced that they achieved commercial operations on a 130 MWdc solar project in Lancaster, California. The project, named Antelope Expansion 2, completed by sPower in December of 2018 will sell output to MCE under a long-term Power Purchase Agreement (PPA). While California is home to many large solar projects, this [...]