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). 
3. 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.

Please consider joining the alliance. You can join as an individual member and/or as an affiliate organizational member or voting organizational member.  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 now.