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Committee backs PUC land sale and moves forward PUC building and solar items
Summary
Committee recommended approval of a PUC land sale for $21,060,000 to help finance a new PUC administrative building at 525 Golden Gate, advanced a long‑term solar interconnection resolution and approved an integrated delivery approach for the PUC building; sponsors said rent savings and surplus land revenue would help cover debt and energy-efficiency costs.
The committee considered several Public Utilities Commission items tied to city facility planning and renewable energy. Members advanced a resolution to sell approximately 13.64 acres of surplus PUC land in the vicinity of Chestnut Avenue and El Camino Real in South San Francisco; the redevelopment agency of South San Francisco agreed to pay the appraised fair market value of $21,060,000. Amy Brown, the city’s director of property, said proceeds are earmarked to help pay for a new PUC administrative building at 525 Golden Gate Avenue.
The committee continued one PUC item (interconnection agreements for multiple generating facilities) at the sponsor’s request and forwarded another authorizing long-term interconnect agreements for photovoltaic projects (including sites at the Chinatown Public Library and Maxine Hall Medical Center) to the full Board with recommendation. Laura Spangen of the PUC described nearly one megawatt of city solar projects and asked for authority to interconnect with Pacific Gas & Electric.
The committee also reviewed an ordinance enabling an integrated project delivery (early procurement of construction management/general contractor) for the new PUC building at 525 Golden Gate to allow contractor collaboration during final design on complex systems (photovoltaics, advanced HVAC, wind generation). Tony Irons, PUC deputy general manager, said annual rent savings (roughly $8.99 million at current cost) would be applied to repay building debt and surplus land revenue would cover certain energy-efficiency components.
Budget analysts recommended Board-level review on several of the items as policy matters; the committee forwarded the land sale, the long-term interconnection resolution and the integrated delivery ordinance to the full Board with recommendation where appropriate.
