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SFPUC presents survey findings and recommends 100% renewable Clean Power SF with phased rollout
Summary
PUC staff recommended launching Clean Power SF as a 100% renewable, greenhouse-gas-free Community Choice Aggregation product after a customer survey of 823 households showed a core base of support and a large persuadable group; commissioners pressed staff on rates, equity and timing for a phased launch targeting 75,000 accounts.
San Francisco — San Francisco Public Utilities Commission staff told a joint meeting with the city’s Local Agency Formation Commission on May 6 that they recommend launching Clean Power SF as a 100% renewable, 100% greenhouse-gas-free Community Choice Aggregation product and phasing enrollment geographically to build operational experience.
Barbara Hale, assistant general manager for power at the SFPUC, said the recommended product would rely on California-compliant renewable portfolio resources and run in parallel with local efforts to develop city-owned renewables and energy-efficiency programs. "We recommend a 100% renewable product ... a 100% greenhouse gas free product," Hale said during the presentation.
The recommendation followed findings from a customer attitudes survey conducted by Fairbank, Maslin, Metz & Associates (FM3). David Metz, the pollster, said FM3 completed 823 interviews with residential electricity customers across the city, stratified by rate tier to oversample high-usage customers. The overall margin of error for the completed survey was about ±5.7%. Metz summarized that 37% of respondents said they would stay with…
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