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Marin Energy Authority outlines launch plan, warns of utility-funded opposition
Summary
Marin Energy Authority chair Charles MacLachlan told San Francisco officials Marin will launch a default "light green" product with 25% renewables at no premium, targets 50% by 2015 and 100% by 2016, aims to be operational June 1 and urged attention to PG&E-funded opposition and a ballot measure risk.
Charles MacLachlan, chairman of the Marin Energy Authority, told the joint LAFCO-SFPUC meeting that Marin intends to launch a default "light green" CCA product guaranteeing 25% renewable content with no cost premium and offer an opt-up "deep green" 100% product at roughly a 7% premium.
"Our business plan target is to be 50% renewable by 2015 and 100 percent renewable by 2016," MacLachlan said, adding that Marin's plan initially relies on brokered purchases of existing renewable power with a future goal of substituting that supply with locally…
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