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Committee endorses PUC authority to enter WREGIS/Regis and similar environmental‑attribute contracts
Summary
The committee recommended an ordinance authorizing agreements with the Western Renewable Energy Generation Information System (WREGIS/Regis) to certify and track renewable energy credits and other environmental attributes, waiving certain standard city contracting requirements because the agreements are non‑negotiable; costs were described as modest and caps were placed ($1M for Regis, $2.5M for similar attributes).
The Budget & Finance Committee recommended forwarding an ordinance that would authorize the Public Utilities Commission to enter into agreements with the Western Renewable Energy Generation Information System (WREGIS, referred to as Regis) to certify and track renewable energy credits and related environmental attributes, and to authorize the PUC general manager to execute similar non‑negotiable agreements for other environmental attributes.
Bart Broom, government affairs manager with the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission, explained Regis functions as a certification and registry service for renewable energy credits and other attributes that utilities must track to demonstrate compliance with state renewable‑procurement requirements. Broom said the contracts are essentially standard form and non‑negotiable, which is why the ordinance waives certain San Francisco administrative code contracting requirements (e.g., competitive procurement). He described modest typical fees (for example, roughly $4,500 per year to register solar facility generation; up to $32,000 per year for larger portfolios) and said the ordinance includes not‑to‑exceed caps of $1,000,000 for the Regis contract and $2,500,000 for all other environmental‑attribute agreements.
Budget staff placed the possible annual costs in a range and recommended approval of the Regis agreement pursuant to state requirements, while flagging that authorizing future agreements without Board approval is a policy decision. The committee moved the ordinance forward with recommendation without objection.
