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Board advances Clean Power SF implementation plan; contract negotiations to follow
Summary
Supervisors moved forward an ordinance authorizing filing an implementation plan for Clean Power San Francisco (a CCA) with the California Public Utilities Commission; SFPUC staff said negotiation with a selected supplier is underway and the contracting item could come back to the Board in March, with robust fiscal review and opt‑out notices to follow.
The Budget and Finance Committee took a procedural step to allow San Francisco Public Utilities Commission (SFPUC) staff to file an implementation plan for Clean Power San Francisco, a community choice aggregation (CCA) program.
SFPUC presentation and next steps: Mike Campbell, director for Clean Power SF at the SFPUC, described the implementation plan as the step required by AB 117 for the city to proceed with a CCA. Campbell said the SFPUC ran a supplier RFP, received five responses, selected the highest‑scoring firm and is negotiating a contract that will define services, pricing, and customer‑enrollment details. He told the committee the implementation plan focuses on customer protections, public rate setting and transparency. "This is an administrative action that's required by the enabling statute AB 117," Campbell said during his presentation.
Opt‑out design, outreach and fiscal review: Campbell and supervisors discussed opt‑out mechanics (the program will use an opt‑out enrollment consistent with state law), outreach plans for non‑English speakers and renters, and the timeline for contract and rate approvals. The Office of Economic Analysis will prepare a fiscal report for the Board within 30 days, and several supervisors emphasized that any contract approving real dollars should receive full review by the controller and the budget analyst and observe the Board’s 30‑day review policies when it is brought forward.
Why it matters: A local CCA shifts some aspects of electricity procurement and rate‑setting from the investor‑owned utility to local control; the scope includes both procurement of electricity and program elements intended to increase local renewable generation. The committee’s action advances the administrative step but does not finalize any supplier contract or rates.
What’s next: Staff said they hoped to present a contract to the Board in the March timeframe, subject to ongoing negotiations and controller/budget analyst review. The committee’s action allowed the SFPUC to proceed with the implementation plan filings required by CPUC.
