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PUC briefs supervisors on Community Choice Aggregation; stakeholders urge rapid implementation
Summary
SFPUC staff told the budget committee the city has secured fair CPUC rules for a CCA, expects a minimal cost-responsibility surcharge, and plans an RFI and outreach; advocates pressed for quick adoption and attention to environmental justice and organizational structure.
City and SFPUC officials told the Board of Supervisors Budget and Finance Committee that San Francisco has made measurable progress on Community Choice Aggregation (CCA) implementation but still faces policy choices before filing a final implementation plan. "Our staff at the power enterprise of the SFPUC have been working and giving input...we're looking forward to seeing those finalized instructions and procedures," Barbara Hale, assistant general manager responsible for power, told the committee.
Hale said the California Public Utilities Commission has clarified resource adequacy and renewable-portfolio requirements for CCAs and that the cost-responsibility-surcharge estimate—created under AB 117—was trending toward minimal levels for the relevant year, which would make CCA more cost effective for customers. She described planned next steps: an RFI, large-customer outreach in April, legislative drafting and targeting an August–September timeframe to submit an implementation plan to the CPUC. "One of the big things that has loomed...is what PG&E's procurement actions will mean to us," Hale said, urging continued monitoring of PG&E—s long-term contracting.
Stakeholders and environmental groups urged prompt action. Paul Fenn (Local Power), Sierra Club representatives and community members praised the process but raised organizational-structure, resource-mix and pace-of-deployment questions; some urged phasing of customer enrollment as a risk-mitigation measure while others said phase-in had been previously agreed against. Advocates repeatedly framed CCA as an opportunity for local control over resource choices and environmental-justice benefits. "I urge you to make community choice, aggregation, and the implementation your top priority this year," Brad Johnson of the Sierra Club told the committee.
The committee directed the City Attorney and staff to draft legislative language for supervisors to consider and scheduled a follow-up hearing in the coming weeks to refine the local implementation plan.
