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Consultant finds SFPUC draft local‑renewables report useful but incomplete; recommends site‑level pro formas and implementation schedule
Summary
VANR consultant Jenny Whitson told LAFCO the SFPUC draft local renewable energy report identifies roughly 105 MW potential across 132 city/regional sites but lacks consistent site‑level economic analysis, project timetables and explicit disadvantaged‑community project entries; VANR recommended adding site pro formas, a two‑year implementation horizon for high‑suitability sites, and expanding consideration of brownfields and a 100% local renewable tier.
Jenny Whitson, program manager for the consultant team (VANR), presented an in‑depth review of the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission’s draft Local Renewable Energy Report (issued Dec. 2019). Whitson said the draft evaluated 132 city and regional sites across 13 agencies and estimated total capacity of about 105 megawatts (medium+high suitability approx. 88 MW). The consultant team found the draft useful as a preliminary inventory but identified important gaps.
VANR’s principal concerns were inconsistent site‑level detail, system sizing that may be…
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