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Consultants tell LAFCO Hetch Hetchy, cogeneration and transbay cable could materially shape CCA supply

Local Agency Formation Commission (LAFCO) · October 24, 2008
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Summary

Local Power presented a draft CCA program report to LAFCO identifying opportunities — including using Hetch Hetchy power, 106 MW of cogeneration potential, tidal resources at the Golden Gate and generation tied to the Transbay cable — and urged legal review, interagency coordination, and aggressive pursuit of CPUC efficiency funds.

Consultants from Local Power presented a draft report to the Local Agency Formation Commission outlining resources and legal/implementation options for San Francisco’s Community Choice Aggregation (CCA) program.

Paul Fenn and colleagues described several major findings: the report assumes a 360‑megawatt local renewable rollout target as part of the CCA implementation plan; it identified a transaction structure the consultants say could allow surplus Hetch Hetchy power to be delivered to CCA customers under the Raker Act; and it cited approximately 106 megawatts of potential cogeneration capacity across roughly 30–40 existing sites (hotels, hospitals and large facilities).

"We have developed a mechanism, a transaction mechanism by which the CCA program, in our opinion can legally make Hetch Hetchy power accessible to the CCA customers as a part of the CCA program," a Local Power presenter said,…

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