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Central Coast Community Energy briefed Scotts Valley council on batteries, electrification incentives and local participation
Summary
A 3CE senior advisor told the council the community choice aggregator is expanding battery storage procurement, customer electrification incentives and bilingual outreach; Scotts Valley has received about $340,000 from 3CE programs to date.
Central Coast Community Energy (3CE) provided a program and policy update to the Scotts Valley City Council covering procurement, battery energy storage, local incentives and outreach efforts.
Doss Williams, senior advisor for policy and legislative affairs at 3CE, told the council the agency serves about 1.2 million customers across 30 cities and five counties and is working to deliver 100% clean energy to customers. "Battery storage is essential for California's energy transition," Williams said, explaining batteries capture renewable energy when supply is high and discharge during peak demand; he told council that at utility scale battery discharge can represent "up to 30% of our energy during the most crucial and expensive time of the day."
Williams said 3CE has contracts to supply roughly 70% renewable energy by 2028 and…
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