California Business Minute™

Hi, I am Tim Johnson and welcome to the California Business Minute.

The California Clean Energy Fund (CalCEF) has launched the Center for Innovation
and Sustainability, a new public policy arm created to address critical issues affecting
the long-term transformation of the energy industry. The Center will work to identify and
address high-level issues of market and policy design, such as the balance between
market forces and regulatory mandates, as well as issues specific to particular clean
energy technologies, such as barriers to increased energy efficiency, sustainably-derived
biofuels, and aggressive renewable electricity development.

The Center will seek to become the “connective tissue” between participants in policy,
technology and finance, and develop high-impact recommendations to the policy community.
Projects to be implemented include:

• Improve commercialization of clean energy technologies developed in public and private labs;
• New business models for energy efficiency that address long-standing market barriers;
• Accelerating the development of renewable energy resources by scaling up the electric transmission system;
• Designing a strategy for sustainable biofuels in the western U.S.
• The Center will also be the hub of CalCEF’s ongoing efforts to advance public policy in general, and will coordinate  the annual CalCEF Conference series

I am Tim Johnson and this has been the California Business Minute.

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advocacy, professional development and public education.  In support
of its members it responds to legislative proposals and administrative
regulations.

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