SFPUC, LAFCO advance Clean Power SF RFP after edits, GAO delays final vote for one week

San Francisco's push to issue a request for proposals for its Clean Power SF community choice aggregation program moved forward Thursday after a lengthy joint session of the Local Agency Formation Commission (LAFCO) and the Board of Supervisors'Government Audits and Oversight Committee (GAO). Staff presented a near-final draft RFP and outlined a timeline that would have issued the solicitation later in October, but commissioners won a commitment to additional edits and a short delay in the GAO process.

"What we have before you represents are pretty close to a final draft of what this document will look like," Nancy Miller, interim LAFCO executive officer, told the joint committee, while acknowledging remaining wordsmithing and consultant comments. Mike Campbell, director of the SFPUC's Clean Power SF program, described the initiative as one that would replace PG&E generation charges with a city-administered, lower-polluting supply: "the energy would be significantly less polluting than what you could otherwise get from PG and E."

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