Webinar: Working with Your Local Electric Utility

Learn how your local government can work more effectively with your local utility to develop renewable energy in this free webinar

Part 1 of ICLEI's Reducing Barriers to Solar for Local Governments webinar series
Date: Feb. 8, 2 - 3 p.m. Eastern
Fee: FREE

What We'll Cover

Cooperation between local governments and electrical utilities is essential to accelerating broad deployment of renewable energy. Join ICLEI USA and partners to learn how to work with your utility to create improved conditions for bringing renewable energy online. We'll focus on topics related to working with electric cooperatives on solar.

Hear directly from a panel of Solar Electric Power Association (SEPA) member electrical utility representatives about the opportunities and limitations of increasing distributed solar electricity, and how they have worked successfully with local governments to implement best practices and policies around solar development and interconnection.

About the Webinar Series:
Reducing Barriers to Solar for Local Governments

Join ICLEI and partners for a monthly webinar series with the goal of helping local governments overcome barriers to deploying solar energy and making local investment in solar more attractive. Each month we’ll cover timely topics and assemble leading experts who provide tips, resources, and case studies on the actions that local governments, utilities, industry professionals and policymakers are taking to increase their solar portfolios. You’ll come away with valuable insights to help you and other stakeholders in your community.

Send Us Questions for Q&A Session

The webinar will feature a 30-minute facilitated discussion between cooperative utility representatives, followed by 30 minutes of Q&A with webinar participants.

Submit your questions in advance: E-mail Farleigh Wolfe at farleigh.wolfe@iclei.org.

This webinar is being hosted by ICLEI USA in collaboration with ICMA and SEPA as part of the outreach effort to support the Department of Energy's SunShot Initiative.