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SFPUC hears Clean Power SF enrollment update as advocates press for faster citywide rollout
Summary
The SFPUC was briefed on Clean Power SF enrollment and outreach: about 80,000 accounts are enrolled, opt‑out is roughly 3.1–3.3%, and the 'Super Green' product has 2,187 customers (2.9%); commissioners and public commenters urged faster citywide enrollment and staff flagged potential regulatory and legislative risks at the CPUC and in state bills.
Barbara Hale, assistant general manager for Power, told the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission on April 25 that Clean Power SF has enrolled roughly 80,000 accounts and that the program’s opt‑out rate is about 3.1–3.3 percent. Hale said 2,187 customers have upgraded to the program’s 100 percent renewable “Super Green” product, about 2.9 percent of the customer base; the Commission’s stated target for Super Green remains 5 percent.
Hale said staff is continuing May enrollment activities, including targeted workshops for net‑energy‑metered customers, and that outreach has produced modest opt‑outs (about 1.2 percent for the most recent auto‑enrollment group). She asked commissioners to watch a pending filing at the California Public Utilities Commission from PG&E and other investor‑owned utilities proposing a Portfolio Adjustment Mechanism (PAM) to modify how so‑called non‑bypassable and above‑market energy costs are recovered through the PCIA.
Why it matters: the commission’s Clean Power SF rollout affects how much of the city’s electricity load is served by renewable resources and shapes local clean‑energy jobs and build‑out plans. If state or CPUC actions change cost recovery (through PCIA/PAM) or impose new requirements on community choice aggregators, those changes could affect program economics and timing.
Public commenters at the meeting urged a faster enrollment timetable and a larger Super Green target. Judd Holtzman of 350SanFrancisco said moving to 100 percent renewable energy “as quickly as possible is a critical part of meeting” regional climate goals and urged staff to roll the rest of the city in by the end of 2018. Eric Brooks, speaking for the San Francisco Green Party and the group Our City, warned that language in SB618 and proposed CPUC actions could reopen cost‑shifting risks or require dramatically higher bonding for community choice programs — measures he said would threaten CCAs statewide.
Commissioners asked staff to coordinate with LAFCO and other city agencies on a potential joint meeting to review an MOU extension and build‑out questions. Hale said the agency will bring a fuller growth plan and additional agenda items to a future meeting; monitoring results from early implementation projects and other program metrics are slated for later reports.
What’s next: staff will review the PG&E/IOU filing at the CPUC, continue enrollment outreach (including workshops scheduled April 29), return with the full Clean Power SF growth plan as a communication item at a subsequent commission meeting, and coordinate further with LAFCO on any needed joint review.
