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Date: August 2020

PLMA and its DER Integration Interest Group hosted a HOT TOPIC Conversation with Marin Clean Energy (MCE) about its innovative behind-the-meter storage program. This scalable program provides resilience for its customers, enhances decarbonization, and makes local grid management possible through load shaping and shifting. As California’s first and leading community choice aggregator, MCE outlines its vision for energy transformation plus the program’s features, which include:

• Priority support for low-income and other vulnerable populations
• Technology flexibility and scalability
• Reduced up-front customer costs through a novel incentive structure
• Use cases that include leveraging battery charging to shift load, and increasing customer resiliency by pre-charging batteries before outages

Featured Speakers:
John Powers, DER Integration Interest Group Co-Chair, Extensible Energy
Vicken Kasarjian, Marin Clean Energy
Mike Maroney, TRC Companies
Miriam Reddoch, TRC Companies
Troy Anatra, Enbala