Supervisors adopt framework for community choice aggregation, urge PUC to issue RFI

San Francisco9s Board of Supervisors voted on June 12 to adopt a framework for a Community Choice Aggregation program and urged the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission (SFPUC) to issue a request for information within 20 days of the ordinance9s effective date.

The measures, advanced by Supervisor Tom Ammiano and co-sponsored by other supervisors, create a program description and a draft implementation plan intended to guide the SFPUC as it solicits industry input and later issues a request for proposals to select a supplier. Ammiano told the board the effort "would be used to write a request for proposals needed to seek a supplier who can build 360 megawatts of green energy facilities and provide a new power service to San Franciscans that will be 51% renewable by 2017."

Why it matters: The legislation lays out policy goals and governance but does not commit the city to specific contracts or bond issuance. The board inserted language described as a "program description and revenue bond action plan," and the…