Beware of scams. MCE does not participate in door knocking for solar. Our energy efficiency program partners will provide identification.
Beware of scams. MCE does not participate in door knocking for solar. Our energy efficiency program partners will provide identification.
Supporting our communities means taking a holistic look at how we can best serve those who are most impacted or disadvantaged both economically and environmentally by the present and future damages that climate change and fossil fuels cause.
Our suite of programs provides customers with access to clean energy technology and services while lowering their electricity bills and greenhouse gas emissions. From income-qualifying electric vehicle rebates to cost-relief programs, MCE focuses on supporting those who need it most.
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Thanks so much for the portable backup battery. In addition to a CPAP for sleep apnea, I have Parkinson’s, and my internal thermostat doesn’t work well. This Yeti 3000 will again help in an emergency. [Thanks] for making this process humane by adding the people back in.”
Joanne, Contra Costa County
MCE’s Community Power Coalition is a network of social, racial, and environmental justice organizations that do feet-on-the-street work to address inequities in our local communities. MCE partners with coalition members to:
Learn how your organization can join the Community Power Coalition. MCE seeks to support mission-aligned community events, activities, and organizations in our community.
Our supplier diversity efforts help businesses whose owners are women, minority, LGBTQ, and/or disabled veterans to access opportunities in California’s energy sector. By leading our supplier diversity workshops and training sessions over several years, MCE has helped many businesses receive certification in the state’s Supplier Diversity Clearinghouse to access utility contracts and more easily grow their local businesses.
MCE annually submits a Supplier Diversity Report to the California Public Utilities Commission that outlines our voluntary work.
The California Public Utilities Commission’s General Order 156 (GO 156) ruling requires utility entities to procure at least 21.5% of their contracts with majority women-owned, minority-owned, disabled veteran-owned, and LGBT-owned business enterprises’. Qualified businesses become GO 156-certified through the CPUC and are then added to the Supplier Clearinghouse database.
Our annual Certify and Amplify workshops inform eligible local businesses on the certification. In 2019, we invited CPUC Supplier Diversity Program and Supplier Diversity Clearinghouse representatives to our Concord office to present the steps needed to certify. The following year we made the Certify and Amplify workshop virtual due to the COVID pandemic shelter-in-place orders. This allowed us to extend the invitation beyond our service area to businesses across the state.
We continuously seek ways to infuse DEI practices throughout the agency — from applying equity metrics to our power procurement process to prioritizing community sponsorship dollars in underserved populations.
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Jonathan Brito
RichmondBUILD graduate, MCE Solar One employee
Our board of locally elected officials reflects the interests of their communities and welcomes your ideas and feedback. As a not–for–profit public agency, our customers influence our policies and programs through our board meetings, which are open to the public.
Public Agency Compensation:
State Controller’s Government Compensation in California
Public Agency Compensation:
State Controller’s Government Compensation in California
Contractors, please fill in all required fields below. Information must be submitted for each project for which you are requesting to reserve funds. Make sure the heat pump water heater you and your client choose to install is on the TECH Clean California-approved list.
