Your Community Energy Experts
As part of our commitment to local energy leadership, Redwood Coast Energy Authority has led and contributed to a number of regional energy planning and readiness efforts. These plans identify strategies, outline next steps, and provide practical guidance to help our communities prepare for a clean energy future. Explore them below.
Completed Regional Readiness Plans
Alternative Fuel Readiness
The Alternative Fuels Readiness Project developed a readiness plan for five rural counties in northwest California (Del Norte, Siskiyou, Humboldt, Trinity, and Mendocino Counties) that provides strategies for the deployment of alternative fuel infrastructure and identifies activities to encourage the adoption of alternative fuel vehicles in the region.
Electric Vehicle Readiness
RCEA and project partners published the North Coast Plug-in Electric Vehicle Readiness Plan in July 2014. The plan represented a coordinated and collaborative effort to plan for and promote EV readiness in Humboldt County and the greater North Coast region.
Fuel Cell Readiness
The goal of the North Coast and Upstate Fuel Cell Vehicle Readiness Project was to build on the efforts of the Northwest California Alternative Fuels Readiness Project. This project supported the successful introduction of fuel cell vehicles throughout the eight-county North Coast and Upstate regions by catalyzing a regional fuel cell vehicle market and planning for the deployment of hydrogen fueling infrastructure.
North Coast Plug-in Electric Vehicle Readiness
Examples of implementation activities include streamlining permitting processes for charging stations, consulting with potential site hosts to accelerate charging station installs, completing fleet analyses to accelerate fleet adoption of EVs, and hosting ride-and-drives to increase public awareness about EV models on the market.