Sign Up for Sustainable Energy Week!
San Diego is revving up the clean energy economy
Efficient, clean, renewable energy continues to be a bright spot in an otherwise dreary economy, and it has never been more important to understand what this integration of new technologies and opportunities means for all of us here in San Diego and across the nation. Click here to read more.
Register today be entered to win a solar water heating system and ensure faster check in on Thursday morning!
| Family Energy Day and Street Smart San Diego | Clean Energy Commercial Tours | Clean Energy Conference |
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Sunday, Sept. 12
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Tues., Sept. 14 and
Wed., Sept. 15
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Thursday, Sept. 16
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10:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.
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9:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.
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8:30 a.m. – 5:15 p.m.
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CCSE, 8690 Balboa Ave. (Kearny Mesa)
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Board buses at
CCSE, 8690 Balboa Ave.
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San Diego
Convention Center
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FREE!
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$55 per day or $75 for both days, includes lunch.
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Still time to save $25 – Preregistration only $125, includes lunch, green career suite and networking reception.
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A Few Highlights . . .
For detailed information about Sustainable Energy Week, start here and click through to learn more.
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 Workshops at Family Energy Day
Get the latest information about solar power, energy efficiency and electric vehicles at a series of special workshops. Topics range from the basics of solar for your home to how San Diego is preparing infrastructure for an electric vehicle revolution. Hear a panel of homeowners discuss their experiences in going solar and meet with electric vehicle experts from General Motors, Toyota and Nissan.
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Great High-value Prizes
Just for attending, you will have a chance to win high-dollar value prizes such as: Vaillant Solar Water Heating System (two collectors and 80-gallon tank) installed by Adroit Solar (value: $9800), Chargers tickets for Monday Night Football, official NFL Chargers jerseys, Padres game tickets (behind home plate); and through our raffle, enter to win a Sanyo Eneloop electric bike (value: $2,499), a solar backpack (value: $249), a parabolic solar cooker (value: $189) and more.
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Get Behind the Scenes
Learn what makes a building “high performance” and discover the energy-saving secrets of some of San Diego’s most high-performance buildings. Attendees will get a chance to talk to the experts who have made such projects happen at the Hotel Indigo, the SDSU Aquaplex, Qualcomm, Albertsons Clairemont supermarket, Urban Corps and other locations.
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Learn from the Experts
More than 40 energy experts and hundreds of local leaders will gather for the CCSE Clean Energy Conference to discuss the latest developments in the evolving areas of clean and sustainable energy. The plenary session will focus on the state of clean energy in California with speakers including commissioners Nancy E. Ryan of the California Public Utilities Commission and Robert Weisenmiller of the California Energy Commission. Throughout the day, there will be sixteen workshop sessions, a green jobs information suite and a networking reception. This is a unique opportunity to network with energy experts and industry leaders.
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See Solar Homes Up Close
Tours in San Diego and nationwide set for Oct. 2
Get on board for the nation’s largest grassroots solar event during the National Solar Tour on Saturday, October 2, in conjunction with National Energy Awareness Month and California’s Solar Energy Month. Presented by the American Solar Energy Society (ASES), more than 150,000 participants are expected to visit some 5,500 buildings in 3,200 communities across the U.S. Click here to continue reading.
Solar Water Heating Gets Incentives
San Diego homeowners receive first of new rebates
The first rebates issued in San Diego from the new California Solar Initiative’s ( CSI) Thermal Program were awarded in July to three residents who purchased Solahart solar water heating systems installed by Solar Services of San Diego in Santee, Calif. Click here to continue reading.
Moving Toward Increased Sustainable Energy
Renewable portfolio standards changing electricity market
While a vision of solar power generating from a million California rooftops is inspiring, even that grand number wouldn’t be enough to meet the state’s ambitious goal of one-third of its electricity coming from renewable sources within the next decade. Click here to continue reading.
Community Energy Action Hero
MAAC Project: Creating Sustainable Communities
The MAAC Project of San Diego is on a mission – to create sustainable families and communities while preserving the environment. This is a visionary undertaking for a nonprofit organization that focuses on bridging the path to self-sufficiency for low- and moderate-income families through nutritional and home improvement programs, affordable housing complexes, recovery homes, a charter school and other services -- one that MAAC takes seriously. Click here to continue reading.
Legislative Update
Pending California energy legislation
The California legislature’s regular session ended August 31 with numerous sustainability bills headed to the governor’s desk for signature. California’s pending energy legislation focuses on greenhouse gas emission mitigation through implementation of energy efficiency, renewable and clean energy solutions and jobs. Click here to continue reading.
 Inside the ERC
CCSE’s Energy Resource Library now has its complete catalog of books, DVDs and tools online with advanced hold for items you want to check out. Simply search by subject, author, title, manufacturer, name or type, and if what you want is available, you can put a hold on it until you come by CCSE to complete the check-out process. Go to the library website.
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Somfy Window
Shades
Recently installed in CCSE’s Learning Centers, these motorized window shades protect against the direct sun, reducing solar gain by dissipating excess heat and cooling naturally — all by the touch of a button. In the winter, the shades can be adjusted to capture solar heat gain, store it in thermal mass and retain it through insulation.
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Tool
Handheld Ultrasonic
Flowmeter
This handheld ultrasonic flowmeter is Shenitech's latest innovation for low-cost, high-portability, high-accuracy and nonintrusive flow measurement. It integrates state-of-the-art transit-time measurement and ultrasonic signal processing technologies as well as the latest advancements in semiconductors.
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Book
LEED Green Associate
Study Guide
This study guide pulls together in an easy-to-review format, the critical points about green building. It will help prepare you for the LEED Green Associate exam and provides a variety of study tools, including individual and group learning activities, as well as review and practice questions that use the same format as those on the actual exam.
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DVD
“ kilowatt Ours: A Plan to
Re-Energize America”
“ kilowatt Ours,” an award-winning documentary, is a timely, solutions-oriented look at one of America’s most pressing environmental challenges: energy. Filmmaker Jeff Barrie offers hope as he turns the camera on himself and asks, “How can I make a difference?”
Click here to learn more.
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Policy and Planning
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Energy Efficiency
This rulemaking continues the work of R.06-04-010 and serves as the forum for the CPUC’s continued implementation of the California Energy Efficiency Strategic Plan as well as the forum for initiating the next planning cycle for 2013-2015 energy efficiency program plans, funding levels and related issues. Read updates. |
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Energy Efficiency Risk/Reward Incentive Mechanism (RRIM)
This rulemaking will address the CPUC’s policies related to an energy efficiency risk/reward incentive mechanism (RRIM), which offers the four major California energy utilities, i.e., Pacific Gas and Electric Company ( PG&E), Southern California Edison Company ( SCE), San Diego Gas & Electric Company ( SDG&E) and Southern California Gas Company (SoCalGas), incentives to achieve or surpass CPUC-adopted energy efficiency goals and to extend California's commitment to making energy efficiency the highest energy resource priority. Read updates. |
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California Solar Initiative,
Self-Generation Incentive Program and Other Distributed Generation Issues
This rulemaking continues the work of R.08-03-008, developing and refining policies, rules and programs for the California Solar Initiative ( CSI) and the Self-Generation Incentive Program ( SGIP) and considering policies for the development of cost-effective, clean and reliable distributed generation ( DG). Read updates. |
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Alternative-fueled Vehicle Tariffs, Infrastructure and Policies
This rulemaking will consider tariffs, infrastructure and policies needed for California investor-owned electric utilities to ready the electricity system in a consistent, near-term manner for the projected statewide market growth of light-duty passenger plug-in hybrid electric vehicles ( PHEV) and battery electric vehicles (BEV) throughout California. Read updates. |
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 Event Calendar
Did you know CCSE offers free, ongoing workshops on energy efficiency, solar energy, green building, transportation and climate change? Register now! Click on the links below or call (866) SDENERGY.
Solar for Nonresidential Customers
Date: Monday, Sept. 20, 2010
MASH Track 2 Workshop
Date: Tuesday, Sept. 21, 2010
Solar Water Heating Basics for Homeowners
Date: Thursday, Sept. 23, 2010
Residential Power Play - Live Green, Save Green, Smile More
Date: Thursday, Sept. 23, 2010
Commercial Solar Economics and Financing
Date: Friday, Sept. 24, 2010
Solar Water Heating Contractor and Self-Installer Training
Date: Monday, Sept. 27, 2010
Basic Electricity 101
Date: Tuesday, Sept. 28, 2010
LEED - Overview of Exam Prep Workshop
Date: Thursday, Sept. 30, 2010
San Diego Solar Homes Tour
Date: Saturday, Oct. 2, 2010
Candidates Forum on Sustainability
Date: Saturday, Oct. 2, 2010
Solar Savers Commercial
Date: Thursday, Oct. 7, 2010
Green Learning Adventure for the Family
Date: Thursday, Oct. 7, 2010
Solar Water Heating Basics for Homeowners
Date: Thursday, Oct. 7, 2010
Other Events
Experience the World Resources Simulation Center (WRSC) where you can literally “see” the critical trends of global and regional issues, the relationships between issues and the consequences of different strategies during a month-long demonstration event presented by the Global Energy Network Institute (GENI). The visualization and simulation project provides access to in-depth, networked, globally distributed data on world resources, global trends and conditions, layered and displayed as 4-D map projections. Open daily with events from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily as well as evening receptions. For information and registration, go to the WRSC website.
Learn about the future of technologies and policies related to sustainable transportation, clean fuels and other strategies for reducing greenhouse gas emissions during the Climate Policy and West Coast Transportation Conference Sept. 16-17 at Stanford University near Palo Alto, Calif. Sponsored by the West Coast Corridor Coalition (WCCC). For more information and registration, go to the WCCC website.
Find out which candidates in your district support sustainable energy, clean transportation, water conservation and other green issues. Mark your calendar for the San Diego Election 2010: Candidates Forum on Sustainability set for 2-5 p.m. on Saturday, Oct. 2, at CCSE. Presented by CCSE and the Sustainability Alliance of Southern California. Register online.
Employee Spotlight
Kyle Goedert
Program Assistant, Transportation
Kyle Goedert provides administrative support for CCSE’s Transportation Programs and the California Vehicle Rebate Project, a statewide clean vehicle incentive program. He joined CCSE as a member of the California Solar Initiative ( CSI) residential team.
Prior to joining CCSE, Kyle was an intern at the San Diego Association of Governments in their transit planning department. His previous work experience includes an internship in the community development department of the City of La Mesa and working at Koegel and Associates, a consulting firm specializing in public outreach within the urban planning sector. He also held an internship at the U.S. Department of Labor in Washington, D.C.
Kyle has a B.A. degree in political science and history from the University of Arizona and a master’s degree in city planning from San Diego State University.
Greening Your World® Monthly Tip
Make Dishwashing Green
If you're washing dishes in the sink and letting the water run, you're wasting gallons of hot water. Instead, use two sink-sized containers, filling one with hot water and eco-friendly, biodegradable soap. Fill the other tub with plain hot water for rinsing. When you're done, you can dump both tubs on your outdoor plants for watering because the soap is safe for your garden. Why let all that water go down the drain?
Notable Quotable
“If there's reason for hope, it lies in man's occasional binges of cooperation. . . . To save our planet, we'll need that kind of heroic effort, in which all types of people join forces for the common good.”
- George Meyer, TV writer for The Simpsons
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