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BayREN update: pilots, multifamily enrollment and the BRRRR refrigerant pilot; staff warn of timing risk with refuse-rate funding
Summary
The department reported BayREN 2024 activity, including commercial small-business projects, multifamily enrollments and a new refrigerant-replacement pilot (BRRRR). Staff also briefed commissioners on the refuse-rate and city budget timelines, saying rate decisions and city budget cycles are imperfectly aligned and could affect department impound-account funding.
At its Oct. 28 meeting the commission heard an annual update on BayREN (the Bay Area Regional Energy Network), program performance and near-term priorities.
Loew Chu, BayREN program manager, and colleagues described BayREN's regional role (nine Bay Area counties), its emphasis on equity and a 2024 year of activity that included hundreds of small-business energy-efficiency projects and multifamily program enrollments. Kara Batista Rao said BayREN Business received 259 project applications and completed 189 project installations since June 2023; she said…
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