Year: 2019

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Welcome Solar NEM Customers!

VCE will begin enrolling legacy solar customers—those who installed solar prior to VCE’s launch in June 2018—in January 2020. Customers will be enrolled during their current true-up month and will be paid more for excess energy generation than they were by PG&E.

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VCE Plans Workshop on Integrated Resource Plan

Valley Clean Energy will host a public workshop in early December to discuss and seek input to their Integrated Resource Plan (IRP). The workshop is open to all VCE customers and interested parties, and will offer information and answer questions, while gathering input.

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City of Winters to join VCE family

The city of Winters is the fourth local jurisdiction to join Valley Clean Energy, Yolo County’s not-for-profit public clean power electricity agency. The cities of Woodland and Davis as well as the unincorporated area of Yolo County are already members, having launched the agency in June 2018.

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VCE Announces New Customer Dividend Program

VCE’s Board of Directors has voted unanimously to adopt a Customer Dividend Program beginning in the Fall of 2020, which will reward all VCE customers for the program’s success by sharing revenues. The dividends will be offered as bill credits once VCE meets its financial goals and obligations: once per

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Woodland utility fraud not associated with VCE

Valley Clean Energy — the official, locally governed electricity provider for Woodland, Davis, and unincorporated Yolo County — would like to reassure its customers that recent reports of utility fraud are not connected to the agency in any way.

Valley Clean Energy (VCE) began offering customers clean, low-carbon power in

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VCE announces two new customer programs

The Valley Clean Energy (VCE) board of directors took big strides last month to fulfill two major promises to its customers.

The board voted unanimously to begin including Net Energy Metered (NEM) solar customers into VCE service starting in January 2020, and additionally voted to launch a Dividend Program this

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Bright Energy Future

With the Governor and Legislature seriously considering substantial reforms to the state’s electricity market in the wake of the PG&E bankruptcy, CalCCA is leading a growing coalition of like-minded groups committed to building a stronger, greener, more reliable electric system—and to protecting the critical role of local, public community choice

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VCE wins SACOG grant to install EV charging.

The Sacramento Area Council of Governments (SACOG) board of directors approved a $2.9 million grant to Valley Clean Energy (VCE) that will lay the foundation for increased electric vehicle charging opportunities and multi-modal transportation hubs in Yolo County over a maximum of 4 years. The City of Davis, Yolo County

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HOW PG&E’s Chapter 11 filing could affect you

Pacific Gas & Electric (PG&E) filed for protection today under Chapter 11 of the US Bankruptcy Code. What will that mean for Valley Clean Energy customers? Probably very little—it’s likely you won’t notice any difference at all in your electricity service.

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