Silicon Valley Clean Energy
Hannah Gustafson is an experienced professional in the field of energy sustainability and urban planning, currently serving as Programs Lead and Senior Community Programs Specialist at Silicon Valley Clean Energy since September 2021, where the focus is on deploying strategic decarbonization programs. Prior to this, Hannah held the position of Senior Research Analyst at the California Center for Sustainable Communities at UCLA, managing the UCLA Energy Atlas project, which involved extensive data analysis for energy efficiency and decarbonization research. Earlier roles include Graduate Student Researcher positions at the California Center for Sustainable Communities and the UCLA Lewis Center for Regional Policy Studies, along with experience as Project Manager and GIS Analyst at SWAPE. Hannah holds a Master’s degree in Urban and Regional Planning from UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs, along with a Bachelor’s degree in Geography/Environmental Studies and GIS from UCLA, and has studied at Københavns Universitet - University of Copenhagen.
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Silicon Valley Clean Energy
Motivated by a common interest in taking bold and effective climate action, twelve Santa Clara County communities came together in March 2016 to form Silicon Valley Clean Energy (SVCE), a Community Choice Energy agency. SVCE sources clean, competitively-priced electricity on behalf of residents and businesses in the participating jurisdictions of Campbell, Cupertino, Gilroy, Los Altos, Los Altos Hills, Los Gatos, Milpitas, Monte Sereno, Morgan Hill, Mountain View, Saratoga, Sunnyvale and unincorporated Santa Clara County. SVCE sources carbon-free electricity, at a lower cost – allowing our communities to make large-scale reductions in emissions, while saving residents and businesses money at the same time. In addition, SVCE will advance programs for efficiency, demand management and fuel switching – to clean, carbon-free electricity in the place of fossil fuels used in transportation, buildings and infrastructure. SVCE maintains a full-time staff, and is governed by a public Board of Directors comprised of an elected official from each member community. Member communities also designate a board alternate. By law, the agency is funded through program revenues only, not local government budgets. All revenues are returned to the program and passed on to customers in the form of competitive rates, local clean energy projects and customer programs.