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Board of Supervisors adopts ordinance urging closure of Potrero power plant
Summary
The Board of Supervisors passed an ordinance establishing city policy to close the Potrero power plant and urging the California Public Utilities Commission to prepare a closure plan and update its electricity resource plan.
The San Francisco Board of Supervisors on a June 2009 meeting adopted an ordinance establishing city policy to close the Potrero power plant and urging the California Public Utilities Commission to prepare a plan for closure and update the electricity resource plan.
The ordinance signals the board’s intent that the city favors retiring the downtown Potrero generating facility and asking the state regulator to plan for that outcome. Supporters of closure say shore-based power and other measures reduce local pollution near the waterfront and residential neighborhoods.
The ordinance was presented on the consent/calendar portion of the agenda as Item 20. There was no substantive debate recorded in the public transcript; the chair declared the ordinance “finally passed” by unanimous consent under the board’s “same house, same call” procedure.
The measure, as described on the floor, asks the Public Utilities Commission to prepare a closure plan and incorporate the change into its electricity resource planning process. The ordinance text and any implementation timeline were not read into the record during the floor action and no effective date was specified in the board discussion.
No formal vote tally was recorded in the spoken minutes beyond the chair’s acceptance of the ordinance by unanimous consent.
The item was presented and concluded during the board’s regular meeting; the transcript records no amendments or additional directions to staff related to implementation.
