How does California move to a vision for the clean, local energy future necessary from where the state is today? The Peninsula Advanced Energy Community initiative explored ways to close this gap and accelerate advanced energy communities in southern San Mateo County.
Advanced energy communities strive to meet zero-net energy (ZNE) standards for the built environment and take full advantage of local renewable energy, demand response, Solar Emergency Microgrids, and electric vehicle charging infrastructure. Accelerating the pace of advanced energy community development will help California realize its clean energy and climate policy goals.
Over 21 months and 31 reports, the Peninsula Advanced Energy Community team developed recommendations to accelerate advanced energy project development. Peninsula Advanced Energy Community uncovered key challenges, studied best practices, developed findings, enumerated benefits, and created tools. The goals of the Peninsula Advanced Energy Community initiative facilitated adopting clean energy and energy efficiency solutions, lowering the costs of and barriers to implement these solutions, increasing the reliability and resilience of the advanced energy communities, and providing replicable and scalable models for other communities throughout California and beyond.
