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San Francisco joint meeting urges CPUC and Legislature to address CCA barriers, sets staff to draft resolution
Summary
LAFCO and SFPUC commissioners heard that exit-fee and bond rules at the CPUC and a tariffthree-year switching rule are blocking community choice aggregation (CCA) rollout; staff reported four revised RFP bids and commissioners authorized a joint-resolution draft urging regulatory or legislative fixes.
LAFCO Chair Ross Mercurimi and SFPUC President Francesca Vietor presided over a joint session where staff and out-of-town CCA officials warned that California Public Utilities Commission rules and utility practices remain major hurdles to creating a municipal CCA for San Francisco.
Why it matters: SFPUC director Mike Campbell told commissioners the CPUCprocess currently favors the incumbent utilities in two ways: an exit-fee calculation method that raises the cost for customers leaving the investor-owned utility and a bond/posting methodology tied to current market prices that, Campbell said, "could be more than $200,000,000" for San Francisco in some market conditions.
Campbell said SFPUC has joined allies in CPUC workshops and contesting pro forma utility filings to seek changes to the exit-fee and bonding approaches. "We are…
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