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City officials and advocates push to fold energy efficiency and Public Goods Charge funds into CCA planning
Summary
Department of the Environment manager Cal Broomhead told LAFCO the city administers roughly $3 million in energy-efficiency incentives this year and is seeking to scale programs; commissioners pressed whether a successful CCA would allow San Francisco to administer a larger share of Public Goods Charge funds for local efficiency programs.
Cal Broomhead, Energy and Climate Programs Manager at the San Francisco Department of the Environment, described the city’s energy-efficiency program and how it could interact with Community Choice Aggregation planning.
Broomhead said the city is delivering roughly $3,000,000 in energy-efficiency incentives this year and provides technical assistance and multilingual services; those funds are drawn from a mix of the Public Goods Charge and utility investment under state loading-order requirements. He said the city has pursued block-grant strategies and tax-lien financing to expand local efficiency work.
On whether a CCA would change administration of PGC funds, Broomhead and staff said the California Public Utilities Commission’s rules are still decisive but that if San Francisco becomes a CCA it could be positioned to administer a greater portion of efficiency funds for customers who remain in the CCA. Commissioners pressed staff to clarify amounts and possible shifts: staff discussed $13 million as an aggregate electric-side figure with about $3 million currently carved out for incentives, but said the CPUC’s final determination will be required.
Why it matters: integrating energy efficiency into the CCA portfolio can reduce overall program costs, lower required renewable capacity and improve the program’s economic performance. Local Power’s presentation also stressed that the implementation plan assumes about 107 MW of efficiency resources that the Task 1/2 scope did not include.
Next steps: staff and Local Power agreed to follow up with data refinements and incorporate energy-efficiency design elements into later consultant tasks and the RFP term sheet as program design options.
