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Local Power urges faster Clean Power SF build‑out; commissioners press staff on rates and Hetch Hetchy availability
Summary
Local Power Inc. recommended accelerating the Clean Power SF local build‑out, using Hetch Hetchy excess power and changing REC strategy to lower customer rates. Commissioners and staff stressed modelling of firm power availability, risk to ratepayers in dry years and legal/financing constraints for using Prop H bonds.
Local Power Inc. (LPI) presented an alternative strategy for the city’s Clean Power SF community choice aggregation program and urged the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission to accelerate a local distributed‑generation build‑out while adjusting the resource mix to reduce rate pressure.
Paul Fenn, LPI’s principal, said the firm’s proposal is "an acceleration of the local build out," integrating up to about 18 megawatts of Hetch Hetchy power and lowering reliance on higher‑cost renewable‑energy credits. Fenn recommended a shift in the REC strategy and use of Hetch Hetchy surplus power to reduce the program’s price premium and support a Phase I enrollment target of roughly 78,000…
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