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Nicole Capretz, director of Environmental Health Coalition's Green Energy/Green Jobs campaign is participating in Governor Jerry Brown's invitation-only meeting of statewide leaders to discuss the Governor's goal of expanding localized renewable energy across California.
The two-day meeting takes place at the University of California - Los Angeles and concludes at 6 p.m. on Tuesday. Capretz, who chairs the City of San Diego's Environmental and Economic Sustainability Task Force, will sit on the Jobs and Economic Development Panel on Tuesday.
Capretz will Tweet news and updates from the conference during the two-day period. Follow her on Twitter @greenienic and follow the official Environmental Health Coalition Twitter @EHCSanDiego
Governor Brown has called for 12,000 megawatts of renewable power generated within the local power distribution grid by 2020. Achieving this goal in California's drive for clean power has the potential to bring important benefits: development of local energy resources and jobs; avoided costs of new transmission and remote generation; and consumer empowerment over their energy future.
EHC supports this goal and will advocate for energy policies and finance tools that specifically benefit underserved and underemployed communities. Specifically, EHC will be pushing for the siting of 2,000 of the 12,000 megawatts in San Diego - including a carve out for small scale renewable energy systems rooftops, parking lots and vacant lands close to population centers. Other points of advocacy will be a focus on green-collar job creation, a local-hire requirement for trained workers from low-income communities, and a push for the use of U.S.-made solar panels to encourage local manufacturing.
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