COMMUNITY CHOICE AGGREGATION  

• National -Ardi Arian Renewable America LLC ardi@renewam.com (408) 663-6647 x701 https://www.renewam.com/ – – -Renewable America LLC is a fully vertically integrated Independent Power Producer (IPP). We have over 2GW of solar power plants operating globally. Our US team is focusing on CCAs that serve their communities with locally generated power. Suntech Power Japan Group’s strong financial background enables us to manage projects from early-stage development through commissioning and operation. Our extensive services include site selections, feasibility studies, engineering, construction, and finance.

• National – Baird Brown–eco(n)law LLC  baird@eco-n-law.net M 267.231.2310
  Baird’s practice includes the development and financing of energy and sustainable infrastructure projects and advice on the regulatory and policy issues affecting such projects. He is counsel to the Microgrid Resources Coalition, and represents state and local sustainability agencies charged with promoting renewable energy, energy efficiency and green infrastructure. He has worked extensively on public/private partnerships and privatization of public services.
  

• National –  David Duperrault, Attorney 408-888-9440 david.duperrault@gmail.com –
  David Duperrault, specializes in energy law and policy with a focus on climate change and clean energy strategies. His interests include public utilities regulation, renewable energy, community choice aggregation, distributed energy and microgrids, energy efficiency, energy storage, de-carbonizing the transportation sector, biogas digesters, and policies to mitigate and adapt to climate change. Formerly, he was with the California Public Utilities Commission,Energy Division where he oversaw Community Choice Aggregators (CCAs) and the migration of millions of customers from investor-owned utilities to CCAs. 

• National – Gerry Braun Integrated Resources Network  gbraun@iresn.org
  Gerry is an energy technology generalist with a 360 degree view of current and emerging energy supply options.  Based on decades of energy R&D and commercial leadership, he advises on technical and economic issues of local energy integration, collaboration and planning. 

• National – Jeff Hintzke- Clean Focus – jeff.hintzke@cleanfocus.us  408 419 4708
  Our group of companies originates, develops, finances, constructs, owns, and operates renewable energy projects in the United States and China. Clean Focus Yield owns and operates renewable energy projects that ensure stable cash flows and attractive dividends for investors.
  

• National – Larisa Dobriansky General MicroGrids 703 989 7639  larisa.dobriansky@gmail.com  As Chief Business and Regulatory Innovations Officer at General MicroGrids, Larisa Dobriansky helps shape utility regulatory reform, power market design and financing mechanisms to capture the value of advanced microgrid capabilities, that manage and optimize distributed energy resources, to deliver “integrated energy solutions” to power systems and communities; expand “energy-sharing” parameters of energy networks/infrastructure; and foster transactive energy

• National – Lynn Arthur Peak Power LI 631-871-8877 lynna27@gmail.com.com  PeakPower LI works with municipalities to develop programs that align with the Municipal Sustainability Plan, including policies and building code. We collaborate with municipal staff executing programs that educate and stimulate constituents to lower their carbon footprint. Recently our marketing campaign successfully harnessed public pressure to motivate an inflection point resulting in regulatory change to enable CCA on Long Island

• National – Samuel Golding- Community Choice Partners, Inc    golding@communitychoicepartners.com – Community Choice Partners, Inc. specializes in designing large, multi-municipality Community Choice programs with strong public oversight mechanisms, which integrate local renewable and distributed energy resources into planning and operations to create green jobs, enhance resiliency, and reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Samuel Golding has consulted for and/or advised Sonoma Clean Power, the County of Los Angeles, the San Francisco PUC, the California Energy Commission, the Sierra Club Energy and Climate Committee, Californians for Energy Choice and the California Alliance for Community Energy (both coalitions of nonprofits dedicated to advancing the California model of Community Choice).   

•  CA – Rob Hammon PHD – BIRAenergy – Rob Hammon PHD- 209.482.1363 – rob@biraenergy.com
  Leading the residential market to reduce emissions, reverse climate change, and improve business practices by integrating existing and emerging efficiency, renewable and storage technologies into homes and communities
  

•  CA – Robert Perry- Synergistic Solutions   818.384.4557  robert.perry108@gmail.com
  Robert Perry serves as the Director of Energy Research for the World Business Academy, a 501(c)(3) think tank focused on the role business in solving humanity’s largest challenges. Mr. Perry researches issues underlying energy generation, transmission and distribution, microgrid, and storage systems as they relate to development of an integrated distributed energy system capable of operating entirely on renewable energy.
  

• CA – John Walter – Repower Yolo – (530) 564-4537 john@repowered.us
  Repower is a community-focused solar program that leverages the power of group purchasing to make it affordable and simple for homeowners and business owners to go solar. Based in Yolo County, California, we’ve created a replicable, community-centered model that will be expanded to other counties and states. What makes the Repower Solar Program so vibrant is that giving back to the community is an essential component of the model. Community partnerships and contributions fuel Repower and increase sustainable living awareness