Research snapshot · Energy · 31 August 2026

Energy efficiency code in California: 5 towns on the record, quiet right now

This page is a snapshot, cut 31 August 2026, of a topic that moves. Below is the shape of the movement, read from the towns' own meeting records, and the way to get a view of it that stays current.

Already a well-mapped Known topic with 8 events. Keep as-is.Our definition of the class, 29 August 2026.

Snapshot taken 31 August 2026, based on 11 dated municipal records flagged as energy efficiency code in California, spanning 5 municipalities. The topic moves; a later cut supersedes this page.

What this page is for one topic at state or national scope, told as a story: how it arrived, the shape of its movement, a dated snapshot of a moving record, and the door to a view of it that stays current. If it does not, write to us; that is what changes the next edition.

The story so far

The record starts in La Mesa, 17 March 2009. Since then 5 California towns have put the topic on a meeting record, the newest of them Moraga on 11 December 2025.

It runs through the rooms where budgets and ordinances are made: Climate Action Committee, Town Council Post Agenda Publication Docume and City Council.

The shape of the movement

Dated meetings on the record at this scope, quarter by quarter, and the same 90-day count as a rolling line, whose right-hand point is that number. Counts of documents, never a reading of what they decided.
QuarterMeetingsTowns
Sep 2025 to Nov 202542
Dec 2025 to Feb 202643
Mar 2026 to May 202600
Jun 2026 to Aug 2026 (current)00

a rolling 90-day total, so the right-hand point is that same 90-day count. The busiest stretch was Sep 2025 to Nov 2025, with 4 meetings.

The towns on the record5, earliest first

Every California town carrying the topic, the earliest first, each with its latest document.
La Mesaearliest 2009-03-17 · 2 meetings · latest 2009-04-20 · the agenda Meeting Agenda Packet-11/17/14: Additional Materials for Item #5
Nevada Countyearliest 2025-04-10 · 1 meeting · latest 2025-04-10 · the agenda Regular Meeting of the Solid & Hazardous Waste Commission
Los Altos Hillsearliest 2025-09-04 · 2 meetings · latest 2026-01-14 · the agenda Open Space Committee Regular Meeting Agenda
Corte Maderaearliest 2025-09-17 · 5 meetings · latest 2026-01-21 · the agenda January 21, 2026 Regular Meeting
Moragaearliest 2025-12-11 · 1 meeting · latest 2025-12-11 · the document December 11 About Town

From the record

The most recent documents behind this page, one per town. Each link opens the town's own file.

21 January 2026 · Corte Madera Climate Action Committee Agenda

the agenda, on the town's own site January 21, 2026 Regular Meeting

14 January 2026 · Los Altos Hills Open Space Committee

the agenda, on the town's own site Open Space Committee Regular Meeting Agenda

11 December 2025 · Moraga About Town Newsletter

the document, on the town's own site December 11 About Town

10 April 2025 · Nevada County Solid & Hazardous Waste Commission

the agenda, on the town's own site Regular Meeting of the Solid & Hazardous Waste Commission

Companies on this record24 companies, 9 documents

Named in the same documents that carry this topic, read from the record itself: the firms designing, building and advising the work, each with where the record places them:
Marin Rental Property AssociationCorte Madera
Bay Area Air DistrictCorte Madera
AECOMLa Mesa
AT&TLa Mesa
California Air Resources Board (CARB)La Mesa
Campesinos Unidos, Inc.La Mesa
CARILos Altos Hills
CARI/EcoAtlasLos Altos Hills
Center for SustainabilityLa Mesa
EcoAtlasLos Altos Hills
EDCOLa Mesa
Energy Policy Initiatives Center (EPIC)La Mesa
Marin Climate and Energy PartnershipCorte Madera
Marin Rental Property Owners AssociationCorte Madera
NOAACorte Madera
OptonyCorte Madera
RESCUE 1 FOUNDATIONMoraga
San Diego Metropolitan Transit System (MTS)La Mesa
Santa Clara County Registrar of Voter’s officeLos Altos Hills
SDG&ELa Mesa
Silicon Valley Clean EnergyLos Altos Hills
ThielMoraga
University of San DiegoLa Mesa
VERIZONLa Mesa

The documents naming each, and the threads they sit in, are the account view. If one of these is you, those are your projects on the record. Ask and we will show you every one, and the towns around them, as they move.

A snapshot of a moving record

Everything above is frozen at 31 August 2026; the topic is not. 43 more events on this topic carry no usable date and are counted, never dated. The counts follow where we read most: a town or a state absent here was not read at depth, and absence is not evidence the topic is absent there. A lighter-read state is not a ceiling; where you care about a region, pointing the system there is the first thing an account changes. How coverage is built, and its known limits: municipalalpha.com/methodology.

How we can tell you about it ongoing

We track this topic continuously; this page is one cut of it, taken 31 August 2026. An account turns the snapshot into a working view: every town and every document behind these counts, the thread on each matter as it develops, word of new meetings as they land on the record, your own states and topics side by side, and the data itself when you want it in a table. The towns above are the taste; what each is actually deciding, funding or stalling is the read an account carries.

Also at this scope: Energy efficiency code across the country. Counts and dates are computed from the documents on the record; the topic and its definition are ours. This page carries no subscriber content.

Energy efficiency code, California

from the towns' own meeting records

Scope

California

every topic this state carries

Area

Energy

every topic in this area

Towns on the record

5

with a dated document on this topic

Earliest

17 March 2009

the documents' dates

Meetings, last 90 days

0 against 0 before

dated documents

Snapshot cut

31 August 2026

this page's date

A view that stays current

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