EnergyWakeup: CALSEIA’s Bernadette Del Chiaro on policy & politics

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California has long been the leading solar market in the United States, and a laboratory where some of the policy ideas that later would transform markets in the rest of the nation are born.

But it hasn’t always been easy. In the following podcast, EnergyWakeup host Yann Brandt talks with CALSEIA Executive Director Bernadette Del Chiaro on political mobilization and the state’s high-stakes policy fights, as well as the future of the market.

This podcast is brought to you in cooperation with SolarWakeup.

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