Neighborhoods as Energy Resiliency Hubs
Moderator: Rick Cole, Deputy City Controller, Office of LA City Controller Kenneth Mejia
Panel:
Neil Navin, Chief Clean Fuels Officer, SoCal Gas
Panama Bartholomy, Executive Director, Building Decarbonization Coalition
Steven Bingler, CEO, Concordia
Jacki Bacharach, Executive Director, South Bay Cities Council of Governments
Responder: Andrew McAllister, Commissioner, California Energy Commission
This panel begins with a bold proposition: California's current model of decarbonizing buildings is wildly successful—and completely wrong. Join to learn the benefits of a new approach to managing the transition, designed to increase scale, quality, and affordability. Moreover, panelists will make the case for community-centered planning by sharing case studies that emphasize the intersection among policy, participatory programming, and practice.