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San Francisco pushes ahead with Community Choice Aggregation as PUC and utilities spar over study and information sharing
Summary
LAFCO heard extended updates on the city’s Community Choice Aggregation (CCA) planning and a PUC-backed tidal-power study involving PG&E and Golden Gate Energy. Commissioners urged clarity about an MOU and whether publicly funded feasibility work and data would be shared with potential competitors.
San Francisco officials said March 30 that work to set up Community Choice Aggregation is moving forward, but commissioners raised sharp questions about a mayoral press conference and a memorandum of understanding that pairs the city’s research with PG&E and a private company.
In an executive officer report and a subsequent PUC briefing, Barbara Hale, assistant general manager for power at the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission, said the PUC will issue an updated request for information and continue feasibility work on renewable resources. "The memorandum of understanding ... is intended to provide that mutuality of that sharing of information," Hale said, describing the document as a research collaboration that “doesn't make any commitments with respect to…
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