Our Team
Alex Morris
Alex Morris serves as the General Manager of California Community Power (CC Power), proudly serving CC Power’s nine member CCAs to collectively provide electricity for 2.7 million customers across 112 municipalities across California. As General Manager, Alex oversees CC Power’s execution, strategy, and service to members as a major joint-action energy buyer and services provider.
Alex has deep expertise in the California electric system with over 17 years of experience in various energy management, strategy, environmental, and planning, and other duties. In previous roles, Alex served as the Executive Director of the California Energy Storage Alliance, an energy storage advocacy organization, as the Senior Vice President with an energy consulting firm, and in various managerial roles in multiple grid, procurement, and clean-energy divisions of major utilities, Southern California Edison and Pacific Gas & Electric.
Alex also serves on the Grid Alternatives non-profit North Valley Board of Directors, supporting economic and environmental justice through renewable energy.
Alex has an Environmental Studies degree from UCLA and a master’s degree in business from the University of California, Davis.
Philippe Gerretsen
Philippe Gerretsen is Director of Origination for CC Power. In this role, he contributes his knowledge and experience in power procurement, wholesale electricity markets, project management, and leadership to support CC Power’s procurement of renewables, energy storage, and other products to support its participating community choice aggregators’ compliance and decarbonization objectives.
Prior to joining CC Power, Mr. Gerretsen held a variety of roles over the course of three years at Nikola Corporation where he was responsible at various times for power procurement for hydrogen production, fueling station development strategy, policy development and advocacy, fuel cell electric vehicle market development and sales, and third-party hydrogen fuel sales. Mr. Gerretsen also represented Nikola on the Board of Directors of the California Hydrogen Business Council, where he actively engaged in shaping California’s policy towards hydrogen, particularly for mobility applications.
Prior to joining Nikola, Mr. Gerretsen worked at Southern California Edison for close to a decade, serving in a variety of roles that included managing a portfolio of contracted renewable and gas-fired generation assets, originating new renewable and energy storage agreements, developing strategies by which SCE could become a distribution system operator, project managing the power charge indifference adjustment working group before the California Public Utilities Commission, and supporting the development of the transmission and distribution budget and priorities during Covid-19.
Key Consultants
Shagun Tougas
Shagun Tougas is a management consultant who provides project management and operations support services to CC Power. She is a co-owner and principal consultant at Clean Energy Regulatory Research (CERR), which has been providing regulatory consulting services since 2017. Shagun has over twenty years of combined experience in program management and consulting in utility energy efficiency and distributed generation programs, coupled with project management and regulatory services to CCAs. She has worked on energy efficiency-related projects for the California Energy Commission, Environmental Protection Agency, and the United States Agency for International Development, and regulatory and project management projects for the California Community Choice Association, Central Coast Energy Authority, and Ava Community Energy.
Prior to starting CERR, Shagun led a team at ICF International to further the adoption of the ENERGY STAR standard in utility energy efficiency programs. She also led teams at Pacific Gas and Electric Company to design, manage, and implement residential energy efficiency and solar programs.
Shagun holds a Bachelor of Science degree in International Business from San Jose State University.
Brittany Iles
Brittany is a Senior Associate at the law firm Braun, Blaising, & Wynne P.C., and serves as General Counsel to CC Power. At the firm, Brittany has acted as regulatory and public agency counsel to Community Choice Aggregators (CCAs) as well as publicly owned utilities. Brittany regularly advises on energy regulatory matters before the various state agencies such as the California Public Utilities Commission, California Energy Commission, the California Independent System Operator (CAISO), and the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC). Brittany serves as general counsel for joint powers agencies and is responsible for public agency law compliance, the administration of publicly noticed meetings, and the crafting of member agreements to support project development. Brittany has also served as lead attorney for a group of joint CCAs advocating for policy issues related to community solar programs. Brittany also administers implementation requirements for individual CCA programs and assists on other program-related activities, including energy efficiency activities. At the CAISO, Brittany has led efforts to reform CAISO code of conduct rules and was successful in receiving a waiver from FERC for excessive penalties associated with meter errors. Brittany manages and oversees the development and administration of BB&W’s extensive regulatory report services.
Brittany received her bachelor’s degree in English from California State University, Fullerton in 2014 and her juris doctor degree from the University of California, Davis School of Law in 2018. While in law school, Brittany served as a Board Member on the Moot Court Honors Board and as an Articles Editor for Environs, the Environmental Law and Policy Journal.