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PUC advances Community Choice plan timeline but staff warns legislative details remain unfinished
Summary
Staff said it will seek authority to use standardized long‑term power contracts and aims to present program design April 14 and not‑to‑exceed rates to the Rate Fairness Board April 17. Advocates and LAFCO urged faster stakeholder inclusion and earlier Rate Fairness filing to avoid falling behind PG&E's marketing.
Commission staff and advocates spent the meeting debating the schedule and legal authority needed to launch San Francisco’s Community Choice Aggregation (CCA) program.
Barbara Hale, Assistant General Manager for Power, told the commission staff is preparing a legislative request to the Board of Supervisors and mayor to allow the PUC to use standardized power contracts (for example, Western Systems Power Pool and the EEI master agreement) for larger or longer procurements. Hale said the change would allow the utility to transact at more commercial speed and to finance new renewable…
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