PRESS RELEASE: June 7, 2022 Collaborating for a clean energy future California’s first 100% renewable energy, front-of-the-meter, multi-customer microgrid is now fully operational. Located in Humboldt County...
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Schatz Center
June 22: Redwood Coast Airport Microgrid grand celebration
We invite you to join us on Wednesday, June 22 as we celebrate the completion and successful commercial operation of the Redwood Coast Airport Microgrid. Join us to learn about: Project innovations: grid integration...
Redwood Coast Airport Microgrid featured in EPIC report
Thanks to the California Energy Commission for its leadership in supporting innovative, clean energy projects across the state! The EPIC program is now entering its 10th year, with over $1 billion in funding to date...
SFSS webinar 10/29 — Energy transitions in a time of intersecting precarities
Energy transitions in a time of intersecting precarities: from reductive environmentalism to antiracist praxis REGISTER for this talk This talk will offer a pragmatic praxis for aligning community solar campaigns with...
Energy needs for covid-19 clinics
Among the many challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic is the need to provide testing in regions with little to no access to an electrical grid. The most common approach for COVID-19 diagnostic testing involves collecting...
5/7 webinar: IEC quality standards for pico-solar products & SHS kits
View the webinar recording and download a followup Q&A Over the past 10 years, the off-grid energy access team at the Schatz Center has worked with the World Bank Group, CLASP, and a broad range of stakeholders to...
Meg Harper
4/24 webinar: Innovations of the Redwood Coast Airport microgrid
View the webinar recording On Friday, April 24 @ noon (Pacific), the California Community Choice Association will launch a new monthly webinar series. This opening event will explore innovations developed for the...
The 2020 Global Off-Grid Solar Market Trends Report from Lighting Global
Since 2009, the Schatz Center has worked closely with the World Bank’s Lighting Global initiatives to increase energy access worldwide by improving the quality assurance of solar products. Every two years...
Maia Cheli
Join us at the Global Off-Grid Solar Forum & Expo
Join us in Nairobi on February 18-20, for the annual Global Off-Grid Solar Forum & Expo. Five members of the Schatz Center’s off-grid team will be participating in the conference: Arne Jacobson, Nicholas Lam...
Yurok Tribe celebrates new solar array in Tulley Creek
On December 19, the Yurok Tribe celebrated the installation of a new, 28 kW solar photovoltaic system on the Tulley Creek Transportation Building, and announced plans to install a second, 24 kW system on the Tulley...
Webinar (11/14): lighting needs in humanitarian settings
On Thursday, November 14, staff from Lighting Global will participate in a webinar on Sustainable Energy for Powering Household and Community Lighting Needs in Humanitarian Settings. This is the third of a four-part...
Blue Lake Rancheria microgrid provided critical services during power shutoff
Climate change is challenging our communities to redesign how we meet basic needs. Our specific mission at the Schatz Center is to increase energy access and reliability while shifting power generation to clean and...
