The Role of CCAs in Creating a Clean Energy Future

MCE is excited to be a part of the recent report on Community Choice Aggregators (CCAs) by the UCLA Luskin Center for Innovation. The report analyzes the role of CCAs in creating the clean energy future. Here are the key findings: CCAs can be effective tools for supporting goals for carbon-free energy because they [...]

By |March 4th, 2021|MCE News|

CalCCA Recognizes Dawn Weisz, MCE CEO, with 2020 CCA Champion Award

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: November 20, 2020 MCE Press Contact: Jenna Famular, Marketing & Communications Manager (925) 378-6747 | communications@mceCleanEnergy.org San Rafael and Concord, Calif. – The California Community Choice Association (CalCCA) and MCE announced today that it has recognized MCE CEO, Dawn Weisz, with the 2020 CCA Champion Award. The recipient of this annual [...]

By |November 20th, 2020|Awards, Press Releases|

What CCAs are Saying About NavigaDER

NavigaDER is a new software tool created to help Community Choice Agencies (CCAs) evaluate and design customer programs for deployment of distributed energy resources (DERs). In previous articles, we introduced NavigaDER and explained how NavigaDER analyzes data to estimate the environmental and financial impacts of DER programs. In this post, Kevin Miller, Energy Programs Analyst [...]

By |November 12th, 2020|Customer Programs, MCE News|

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 Introduces NavigaDER: Software for Designing DER Programs

As a Community Choice Agency (CCA), MCE knows that distributed energy resources (DERs) can unlock significant value for our organizations and our customers. But what are the best practices for designing DER programs that maximize financial benefits, increase power reliability by providing backup power, intermittency solutions and system load balancing, and reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) [...]

By |October 1st, 2020|MCE News|

MCE Changemaker: Senator Mike McGuire Receives the 2020 Climate Leadership Award

The Changemaker blog series celebrates MCE’s 10-year anniversary by recognizing the extraordinary people who support us and further our mission. Senator Mike McGuire is the recipient of MCE’s 2020 Climate Action Leadership award for his work advocating for policies benefiting Community Choice Agency (CCA) customers, advancing efforts to combat climate change, and leading the way [...]

By |September 29th, 2020|Awards, MCE News|

MCE Earns New, Higher ‘Investment-Grade’ Credit Rating from Fitch Ratings

Rating upgrade highlights strong finances and successful COVID-19 response FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: August 26, 2020 MCE Press Contact: Jenna Famular, Communications Manager (925) 378-6747 | jfamular@mcecleanenergy.org SAN RAFAEL and CONCORD, Calif. — On August 25, 2020, Fitch Ratings assigned a 'BBB+' Issuer Default Rating to MCE, an upgrade of its previous rating of BBB. Among [...]

By |August 26th, 2020|MCE News, Press Releases|

MCE’s Commitment to Environmental Justice

MCE's Environmental Justice in Energy Series series explores the ways environmental justice is essential to MCE’s mission to address climate change by reducing energy-related greenhouse gas emissions with renewable energy and energy efficiency. Environmental justice (EJ) is defined by the EPA as “the fair treatment and meaningful involvement of all people regardless of race, [...]

MCE Receives 2020 Acterra Business Environmental Award

MCE Solar One Recognized in the Environmental Project Category in Partnership with City of Richmond and RichmondBUILD FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: May 22, 2020 MCE Press Contact: Jenna Famular, Communications Manager (925) 378-6747 | jfamular@mcecleanenergy.org SAN RAFAEL and CONCORD, Calif. — MCE will be the recipient of Acterra’s 2020 Business Environmental Award in the Environmental Project [...]

MCE Announces 10-Year Anniversary

Pictured above: MCE celebrates at its launch event on May 7, 2010. Founding Board Chair, Charles McGlashan, is at the podium. Celebrating Its Role in Transforming Community Energy FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: May 7, 2020 MCE Press Contact: Jenna Famular, Communications Manager (925) 378-6747 | jfamular@mcecleanenergy.org SAN RAFAEL and CONCORD, Calif. — MCE is excited to [...]