U.S. Secretary Of Energy Visiting San Leandro During CA Trip

CALIFORNIA — U.S. Secretary of Energy Jennifer M. Granholm is visiting the Bay Area next week as part of a swing through California where she will tout the Biden-Harris Administration’s clean energy agenda.

Granholm's Golden State trip starts Monday with a press call then a visit to San Leandro for a tour and ribbon-cutting ceremony at Cuberg's new battery innovation facility. The company is an early participant in the Department of Energy’s Lab-Embedded Entrepreneurship Program.

Granhold will then travel to the Riverside County city of Menifee to visit a U.S. Department of Energy-funded regional Connected Communities project being developed by KB Home, Schneider Electric, Southern California Edison, and SunPower. The project includes two all-electric communities with over 230 zero-energy homes powered by solar energy and a community microgrid.

On Tuesday, Granholm will join more than 700 tribal leaders at Pechanga Resort Casino in Temecula for the 2024 Department of Energy’s Tribal Clean Energy Summit. At the summit, the Secretary is scheduled to talk about Biden’s "commitment to strengthening engagement with Tribal nations to ensure the buildout of an inclusive clean energy economy and announce the Administration’s latest efforts to enhance Tribal energy sovereignty," according to the DOE.

Granholm was sworn in as the 16th U.S. Secretary of Energy on Feb. 25, 2021. She also served two terms as governor of Michigan, from 2003 to 2011. In between the time of her federal and state posts, she was a Distinguished Professor of Practice in the Goldman School of Public Policy at the University of California, Berkeley.