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Californians for Energy & Science is a data-driven, science-first organization founded to restore honesty, rigor, and balance to California’s energy conversation. We are environmentalists, engineers, economists, operators, academics, and community leaders who believe good policy must be grounded in real-world data—not ideology.

CA4ES exists because California’s energy system affects everyone: families paying the highest utility and gasoline prices in the nation, workers whose livelihoods depend on local production, and communities that deserve measurable environmental protection—not political theater.

Who are we?

Our science goals are practical, transparent, and uncompromising:

Measure reality: Deploy continuous, third-party air monitoring and field-level data to replace assumptions with facts.
Expose leakage: Quantify the environmental and economic costs of outsourcing energy and minerals to foreign suppliers under weaker standards.
Prove what works: Identify the efficient level of production that minimizes emissions, protects communities, and stabilizes costs.
Integrate innovation: Advance next-generation solutions—monitoring, AI, geothermal and thermal storage—that use existing infrastructure to cut emissions and improve reliability.
Inform policy with evidence: Translate complex data into clear findings that regulators, legislators, and communities can trust.

What are the organization’s science goals?

California is the ultimate stress test for resource governance. Drawing directly from the work of Elinor Ostrom, CA4ES believes the answer is not more centralized control, but smarter, voluntary coordination:

Producers share a common interest in long-term resource health and community trust.
Clear rules, transparency, monitoring, and accountability outperform top-down mandates that lack site-specific knowledge.
Industry-led collaboration reduces free-riding, improves compliance, and delivers better environmental outcomes at lower cost.
When producers organize around data, self-commitment, and shared norms, they can outperform both markets alone and the state alone—even under extreme regulatory pressure.

In short: governance works best when those closest to the resource are empowered to manage it responsibly, visibly, and collectively.

How can industry govern common-pool resources under an extreme policy framework?

The second Unleash California event is not a conference—it is a convening of consequence.

The first Unleash California brought together operators representing the vast majority of California’s in-state production.
This year goes further: deeper science, sharper policy alignment, real solutions, and a growing coalition across energy, finance, AI, and academia.
It is invitation-only by design—curated for leaders who don’t just talk about California’s problems, but are ready to solve them.
This is where data meets decision-makers, where industry aligns before engaging Sacramento, and where the narrative shifts from “crisis” to credible pathways forward.

Why this event will become the preeminent California energy event

California’s energy future will not be decided on social media or in soundbites. It will be shaped in rooms like this—by people willing to lead with facts, govern collectively, and act boldly. That is why CA4ES exists. That is why Unleash California matters.
And that is why this event is becoming the place where California’s energy future is reclaimed.