
Make Your Water Heater Work for You, Plus a SNEW Project Highlight
Learn about ways you can save energy and money through the WatterSaver program and how SNEW services are helping our community.
CivicSpark Fellow
The environment has a significant impact on energy use and productivity. Reduced stream flows can weaken hydropower. Storms and wildfire risks can force utility public power shut offs. And hotter conditions can drive energy demand for cooling. While these disturbances are likely to continue, sustainable energy use reduces emissions, cuts costs on utility bills, and enables people and communities to better adapt.
Thus, Sierra Business Council’s Sierra Nevada Energy Watch (SNEW) program has designed its Climate and Energy Outlooks, a catalog of climate projections and related energy impacts for each county in its service territory. The goal is to highlight changing circumstances within county jurisdictions and begin conversations around potential energy solutions.
SNEW will be hosting four public workshops to present the outlooks and highlight energy solutions. SNEW’s mission is to find the best opportunities for each client – from building energy audits and benchmarking reports to energy action plans and long-term financial support. You can register for your region’s workshop using the corresponding link in the table below. See below for recordings of past events.
Date | Wed 3/16, 12-1pm | Wed 3/30, 12-1pm | Wed 4/13, 12-1pm | Wed 4/27, 12-1pm |
Workshop | North | South Central | Central | North Central |
Counties | ||||
Recordings |
We hope to see you at the upcoming workshops! In the meantime, please feel free to contact snew@sierrabusiness.org if you have any questions.
Slides are available here.
Program Resources
Sierra Nevada Energy Watch (SNEW)
Sierra Climate Adaptation and Mitigation Partnership (CAMP) Vulnerability Assessment
Sierra Small Business Development Center (SBDC)
SNEW Team Contact
Kaleigh Reynolds/Plumas County
Climate and Energy Outlooks
Cal-Adapt
Public Agency Funding Opportunities
Emergency Load Reduction Program
California Schools Healthy Air, Plumbing, and Efficiency Program (CalSHAPE)
Regional Climate Collaboratives
Business Funding Opportunities
Emergency Load Reduction Program
Self-Generation Incentive Program
PG&E’s Community Resilience Website
PG&E Training Opportunities
Building Operator Certification Courses and Smart Building Technical Webinars
Learn about ways you can save energy and money through the WatterSaver program and how SNEW services are helping our community.
Please join Sierra Business Council at an upcoming workshop designed to collect important community feedback on broadband access and digital equity in the Sierra Nevada on May 12 from 10 am to 2:30 pm.
Make an impact in your community through the CivicSpark program! CivicSpark is an AmeriCorps program dedicated to building capacity for local governments in California, Washington, and Colorado to address emerging environmental and social equity resilience challenges such as climate change, water resource management, affordable housing, and mobility.