Plenary Panel: Transforming California’s Underserved Communities into Technology-Advanced Clean Energy Communities

November 3, 2020

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EcoBlock Project Manager Therese Peffer recently participated on a panel in the 2020 EPIC Virtual Symposium:

Plenary Panel: Transforming California’s Underserved Communities into Technology-Advanced Clean Energy Communities
In 2016 the California Energy Commission held its first design-build competition to challenge multi-disciplinary teams to come up with replicable and scalable approaches for Advanced Energy Communities, particularly in underserved communities. Four teams were selected for the build-phase. Hear from representatives of these teams about their innovative approaches to transform underserved communities into some of the most technology-advanced clean energy communities in the world.

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