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Public urges SFPUC to sell turbines, prioritize low‑income solar and reject CT siting in vulnerable neighborhoods
Summary
Public commenters and advocacy groups told the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission to sell combustion turbines (CTs) rather than study new generation siting and to protect low‑income residents in solar job programs. Staff said the commission’s policy remains to sell the CTs while studying cogen options only as an analysis concurrent with the sale.
Public commenters pressed the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission on July 14 to prevent combustion turbines (CTs) from being placed in disadvantaged neighborhoods and to ensure low‑income residents benefit from solar programs.
Espinaldo Jackson of Bayview Hunters Point told commissioners he has been a homeowner and taxpayer since 1968 and asked the commission to "rescind a motion" made months earlier and to "reaffirm last year" that CTs not be sited in San Francisco neighborhoods; he asked that the issue be placed on a future agenda. Eric Brooks of the San Francisco Green Party and Our City said the Board of Supervisors’ recent vote sending…
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