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Clean Energy Resources
Moving toward a clean energy future will require all of us. We’re working to help the Central Coast make this transition with fact sheets, Get Started Guides, and inspirational stories of others who have made the switch to cleaner energy and transportation. Click on any of the links below to explore these resources.
Michael Chiacos gives an overview of CEC’s critical energy work.
Clean ENERGY SUCCESS STORIES
Clean ENERGY Webinars
FEATURED CLEAN ENERGY BLOG POSTS
Everything you wanted to know about Community Choice Energy
COMMUNITY CHOICE ENERGY RESOURCES
Learn about the service providers in our region, including powerful programs they offer to help residents and organizations adopt clean energy technologies such as electric vehicles, heat pumps, rooftop solar, energy storage, and more.
Local Information
Clean Power Alliance (Ventura County)
Santa Barbara Clean Energy (City of Santa Barbara)
Central Coast Community Energy (Most of Santa Barbara County & Cities in San Luis Obispo County)
Learn more about the benefits of Central Coast Community Energy on the City of Goleta's sustainability webpage and in the video above.
Statewide Information
Learn about what’s happening across the state with Community Choice Energy (also known as Community Choice Aggregation): CAL CCA
Electrification of homes and businesses is one way we can achieve carbon neutrality
Read how CEC helped ensure that all-electric new building construction is the future of Santa Barbara.
Review the bilingual Electrification Fact Sheet.
Learn more about All-Electric REACH codes and what it means for new buildings throughout California.
Watch CEC's Electrify Your Life: Top Ways To Ditch Fossil Fuels webinar to learn what steps you can take to cut fossil fuels out of your life – and incentives for making affordable changes to that end.
Learn more about how electrifying multifamily buildings can help California achieve carbon neutrality by 2045.
SOLAR GUIDES & FACT SHEETS
Are you a local nonprofit that works for social good?
Contact us to learn how you can install quality photovoltaic solar systems, with no upfront costs.
Learn more about incentives for electric vehicles and charging stations
ELECTRIC VEHICLE RESOURCES
Read up-to-date and informational blogs from Car and Driver.
See this interactive map for EV charging stations near you.
Find the best lease offers from dealers in the US.
Read CEC’s Energy & Climate Program Director’s blogs Trains, Planes & Automobiles: How Transportation Systems May Be Permanently Altered by the COVID-19 Pandemic and Electric Vehicles Are For Everyone: Everything You Wanted to Learn About Affordable EVs, and More.
Read CEC’s Energy and Climate Associate’s blog Driving Electric for Under $40 per Month/Conducir con electricidad por menos de 40 dólares al mes.
Learn more about electric vehicles at www.ElectricDrive805.org or read stories about how others have gone electric.
Keep in touch – we’d love to hear about your electric vehicle journey… and you could even be featured on our blog. Join CEC’s Electric Drive 805 Facebook group or email mchiacos@cecmail.org.
ELECTRIC VEHICLE BLOG POSTS
Electric Vehicles Are For Everyone: Everything You Wanted to Learn About Affordable EVs, and More
Trains, Planes, and Automobiles: How Transportation Systems May Be Permanently Altered by the COVID-19 Pandemic
Driving Electric for Under $40 per Month
