Rainbows are a symbol of hope, promise, and diversity. We've got that in spades in the communities Ava serves, including right here in Oakland - where we took this photo just now from our office by Lake Merritt.
Ava Community Energy
公用事业
Oakland，California 4,214 位关注者
Powering Alameda County and the Valley – your local, not-for-profit electricity supplier.
关于我们
Ava Community Energy (Ava) is the local, not-for-profit electricity supplier powering Alameda County and the City of Tracy (electricity service to the Cities of Stockton and Lathrop will begin in April 2025). Ava provides clean, green energy at low rates to our 640,000 customers. We reinvest earnings back into the community to create local green energy jobs, local programs, and clean power projects. Ava member cities include Albany, Berkeley, Dublin, Emeryville, Fremont, Hayward, Livermore, Newark, Oakland, Piedmont, Pleasanton, San Leandro, Stockton, Tracy, and Union City. The unincorporated areas of Alameda County (including Ashland, Castro Valley, Cherryland, Fairview, San Lorenzo, and Sunol) are also served by Ava.
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https://avaenergy.org/
Ava Community Energy的外部链接
- 所属行业
- 公用事业
- 规模
- 51-200 人
- 总部
- Oakland，California
- 类型
- 政府机构
- 创立
- 2016
- 领域
- solar、wind、renewable energy、battery storage、community和public power
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1999 Harrison St. Suite 2300
US，California，Oakland，94612
Ava Community Energy员工
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We just launched our Health-e Communities program – in partnership with Berkeley Air Monitoring Group and Franklin Energy – to offer qualified low-income customers the opportunity to replace their existing gas stove with a free induction stove. The Health-e Communities pilot program is open to low-income customers enrolled in the California Alternate Rates for Energy (CARE) or the Family Electric Rate Assistance (FERA) programs or who live in an affordable housing unit. Interested applicants can enroll today at: https://ow.ly/W9z750U5twk Read the full press release here: https://ow.ly/kpsI50U5twj
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?? Job Alert! ?? Sacramento Municipal Utility District (SMUD) is hiring for a Customer Services 1 position in their Sacramento office (with future flexibility)! SMUD provides call center services for Ava and is an essential part of our customer support team. Applications open Monday, Nov. 4 at 8 a.m. Only the first 3,000 applicants will be accepted, which SMUD is expecting to reach on the first day. Qualified applicants must have a high school diploma or equivalent and should be able to demonstrate 1 year of customer facing experience or equivalent training/education. Applicants should set up a career profile in advance at Careers at SMUD (https://ow.ly/Cxrn50TYe4Y) and apply as soon as possible on Nov. 4 at 8 a.m. Qualified applicants will be invited to an online examination, tentatively scheduled for the week of Nov. 18.
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We had a great time at the very first national CCA Conference hosted by LEAN Energy US a few weeks ago in Washington, D.C.! Dominic Faria, Senior Coordinator of Policy at Ava (front and left-center in this photo), had the opportunity to to talk all-things-CCA with U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) staff and CCA representatives from across the U.S.
Senior Advisor for Energy Efficiency & Renewable Energy at U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), #Team46 Biden-Harris Climate Appointee Leader
The transition to a 100% carbon-free, clean energy future will require new business models, financial products, and partnerships that are either just emerging or don't even exist Today... That's why last week, I was delighted to join and speak at the first national conference for "Community Choice Aggregators" (aka CCA) put on by LEAN Energy US, a nonprofit?dedicated to the accelerated expansion and competitive success of clean energy CCA's nationwide. Participants exchanged best practices on renewable energy sourcing and marketing strategies, financing mechanisms, market and technology innovations beyond procurement, infrastructure and regulatory challenges, state and federal funding opportunities, and even community engagement. In addition, DOE welcomed the LEAN Energy leadership and some of the CCA members to meet with various DOE programs offices to shed light on new ways that CCA's can better interact and partner with DOE. My remarks focused on how the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) is evolving and building out new teams and tools to support communities through the clean energy transition, as well as the importance of the CCA buisness model to reach the scale of decarbonization needed. As an example, DOE has been working to establish new capacity building programs, including Community Energy Fellowships, a new DOE-AmeriCorps partnership for Clean Energy Service Corps members, an Arctic Energy Ambassadors program. Starting in 2025, Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE), U.S. Department of Energy will also be enabling CCA's to be eligible for the Clean Energy Innovation Fellowships (CEIF) to support them with expanding new service offerings, expanding to new territory, and enhancing the value proposition of the CCA's. To me, CCA's offer communities a game-changing local energy model. It's essentially a shared-service model with investor-owned utilities that enables cities and counties to aggregate their electric load for the purpose of lowering electric rates, offering ratepayers a choice to buy clean energy, and by doing so, lowering greenhouse gas emissions. CCA's are also thinking about expanding beyond just providing choice of power, to also aggregating home #efficiency and #electrification technologies and solutions to reach economies of scale, especially when combined with the IRA home energy #rebates and new #taxcredits. This is where things can get really exciting in IMHO. Currently, CCA's are enabled in 10 states, with several others looking to vote on this in the upcoming elections, so stay tuned to see whether CCA's will be coming to your backyard. >>> https://lnkd.in/daXNZCkk A big thanks to Alison Elliott, Claire Dépit-Str?mb?ck, and the LEAN ENERGY US team for your great work in the field and for engaging with DOE while you were in town. #ENERGY #MarketTransofrmation #CCA #Community #InvestingInAmerica
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We had a productive strategic planning session with our Community Advisory Committee (CAC) earlier this month! Our CAC gives the community a voice in its choice of electricity services, clean energy resource investments, and local energy projects, acting as a liaison between key stakeholders and our Board, and holding regular public committee meetings. To learn more about the CAC, visit our website: https://lnkd.in/gh_ydVpp
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We need more grid to facilitate the move to a zero-carbon power supply. But new power lines are expensive and slow to build. There is a growing interest in new technologies that make it possible to get the most out of the existing grid. Read our explainer in Power Grid International: https://lnkd.in/gFkH9BTb
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Check out the EVDX Solutions Lab next week (November 6) in Oakland! Vanessa "V" Gerber, Product Manager of DC Fast Charging at Ava, will be discussing our forthcoming public fast charging network on the "Regional Efforts to Date" panel. Learn more and register on the AESP website: https://lnkd.in/dqx2k9jm
? Energy Event Alert ? Vanessa "V" Gerber of Ava Community Energy and Phillip Kobernick of Peninsula Clean Energy will be speaking at AESP's EVDX Solutions Lab in Oakland on November 6. This EVDX event will dive deep into the regional challenges facing EV adoption, creating real-world solutions that make it easier for consumers to go electric. The California Solutions Lab is co-located with CEDMC’s Fall Conference at the?Oakland Scottish Rites Center?located at 1547 Lakeside Dr, Oakland, CA 94612. Register here: https://lnkd.in/dqx2k9jm
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Ava CEO Howard Chang is speaking next week at the The Bond Buyer's California Public Finance Conference in San Francisco on a panel Addressing the Strain on the Electric Grid. Howard will be joined on the panel by Chris Jumper and Rudy Salo. Details: https://ow.ly/7aLt50TJ0Rc