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Committee hears BLA estimates and city departments on costs, equity and next steps for building electrification
Summary
A multi-hour hearing reviewed a Budget and Legislative Analyst report estimating $3.5–$5.9 billion to retrofit San Francisco housing to all-electric appliances. Presenters and advocates urged a road map, equity protections, incentives and workforce development; departments described pilots, grid and permitting constraints and recommended a working group to design implementation and funding.
The Land Use and Transportation Committee held a multi-agency hearing on a Budget and Legislative Analyst (BLA) report analyzing what it would take to decarbonize residential buildings by eliminating natural gas usage.
Supervisor Matt/Mark Marr (sponsor) said electrifying existing buildings is essential to meet San Francisco’s net-zero goals and introduced BLA authors Fred Brusseau and Reuben Holleber, who summarized the report’s findings. The BLA used two external consultant studies to generate low- and high-cost scenarios: using Navigant-derived low-end averages, retrofitting roughly 240,231 housing units was estimated near $3.5 billion; a higher-scenario estimate using E3 consulting produced a figure near $5.9 billion. Per-unit averages varied substantially by building type…
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