September Spotify | Industry Series PII: All the Acronyms

The SJVCEO serves the geographically HTR and DAC of California’s San Joaquin Valley. We work to increase equity in access to energy programs, largely through EE work with Public Agencies. The program funding comes from the CPUC through contracts with three of California’s IOUs—PG&E, SCE and SCG, as well as LAC.  The SCR, VIEW and CCEW make up our current EE programs, but we also have past funding from the CEC, DOE, DOE, and USDA. We advocate for our rural spaces at the CAEECC representing the RHTR.  Our success comes from data analysis using ESPM, GRITS, the II and translating that all into pipelines and policy via EAPs, CAPs, and ERRs. 

And that’s just us.  This whole business is lousy with acronyms and the worst people are the ones who don’t bother to speak the whole thing out. 

San Joaquin Valley Clean Energy Organization, Hard-to-Reach, Disadvantaged Communities, Energy Efficiency, California Public Utilities Commission, Investor Owned Utility, Pacific gas and Electric, Southern California Edison, Southern California Gas, Los Angeles County, Southern California Regional Energy Network, Valley Innovative Energy Watch, Central California Energy Watch, California Energy Commission, Department of Energy, Department of Education, United States Department of Agriculture, California Energy Efficiency Coordinating Committee, Rural Hard to Reach Working Group, Energy Star Portfolio Manager, I don’t know what GRITS stands for three years into using it, Infrastructure Inventory, Energy Action Plans, Climate Action Plans, and Energy Readiness Reports.

Click here to access our September playlist or our own iteration of “ALPHABET SOUP”

Courtney’s Picks:
Of A Revolution, Missing In Action, Having Everything Revealed, idiot.  See Rochelle’s definition to learn the origins of B.o.B.; see Wikipedia to understand why he’s an idiot (cough, flat-earther, cough)

Hey Girl, O.A.R
Fight for You H.E.R.
Bad Girls, M.I.A.
Airplanes, B.o.B.

Sam’s Picks:
Working in an industry of acronyms I find myself not questioning these items in my daily life. Sooo putting together this playlist was fun! Never did I think there was more meaning to the name DMX but let me tell you don’t judge a book by its cover. Enjoy!

You Shook Me All Night Long, AC/DC
X Gonna Give It To Ya, DMX
Gimme! Gimme! Gimme!, ABBA
Unpretty, TLC

Kelsey’s Picks:
Los Angeles New York, Of A Revolution, Lyte Funkie Ones, and AWOLNation (Absent Without Leave). Why on Earth did I think this playlist was going to be an easy task? It appears our daily routines are filled with an excess number of acronyms, but my music taste does not follow the same thing as frequently as I thought. Alas, I pulled from some archived playlists to choose the songs below. Enjoy!

ILYSB, LANY
Shattered, O.A.R
Summer Girls, LFO
Sail, AWOLNation

Rochelle’s Picks:
I had so much fun with this playlist because it feels like acronyms sustain our whole line of work! I chose some of my favorite acronym artists and included a listing with their full names—some I already knew, and some I learned pulling this together. 

Bombs Over Baghdad (B.O.B.) became B.o.B., a.k.a., Bobby Ray Simmons, who takes his name from the 2000 Outkast single.  Ladies Love Cool James (LL Cool Jay) built off his birthname, James Todd Smith.  Sisters With Voice (SWV) refers to the three members, Cheryl “Coko” Gamble, Tamara “Taj” Johnson, and Leanne “Lelee” Lyons—although they are not biological sisters. No one Ever Really Dies (N.E.R.D.) refers to the Buddhist belief that matter can never come from non-matter, and consciousness can never come from non-consciousness.

Nothin’ On You (feat. Bruno Mars), B.o.B
Around the Way Girl, LL Cool J
Anything, SWV,
Lemon (feat. Drake), N.E.R.D. (& Rhianna)