Saving energy As members of the non-profit Clean Power Alliance’s (CPA) Community Advisory Committee representing the Westside, we are proud of Santa Monica’s long-standing environmental leadership. The City of Santa Monica was one of the first entities to join CPA and the first to opt-in to 100% Green Power. Since then, in just three short years, CPA has grown to become the nation’s top provider of green power. During this time, CPA’s customers have avoided more than 2.1 million metric tons of greenhouse gas emissions, equivalent to 455,000 automobiles being taken off the road every year. CPA’s new renewable resources are both replacing polluting fossil-based power plants and cleaning up the electricity grid that will increasingly power our vehicles.