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Salt Lake City hears update on regional community renewable program ahead of Dec. 16 PSC hearings
Summary
City staff briefed the council on the Utah Renewable Communities program, explaining how the utility partnership with Rocky Mountain Power would work, projected household bill impacts of about $3–$4 monthly, protections for low-income customers and the regulatory timeline tied to Public Service Commission hearings on Dec. 16.
Salt Lake City staff provided the council an informational briefing Dec. 9 on the Utah Renewable Communities (URC) program and the next steps in a Public Service Commission (PSC) docket that could allow participating cities to offer community-scale clean energy to customers.
Glade Sowerds, senior energy and climate program manager, said URC is a coalition of 19 Utah cities and counties that would contract with Rocky Mountain Power to add new renewable generation to the grid that Rocky Mountain Power would own and operate while customers remain Rocky Mountain Power…
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