SFPUC reports Clean Power SF serving about 80,500 sites; readies July citywide enrollment
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Assistant General Manager Barbara Hill told the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission the Clean Power SF program now serves about 80,500 sites, with a 3.2% opt-out rate and 4.1% Super Green participation; staff signaled financing and supply contracts are pending ahead of April and July enrollments.
Barbara Hill, Assistant General Manager for Power at the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission, said on Jan. 9 that the agency's Clean Power SF program is serving about 80,500 customer sites and is preparing for larger enrollments in 2018.
Hill said the program's opt-out rate is steady at about 3.2% and the Super Green upgrade enrollment is about 4.1%, an increase of 0.1 percentage point since December. The next small enrollment is scheduled for April 2018, and the Commission plans a major citywide enrollment in July 2018 aimed at enrolling roughly half of the city by July 2019.
The update outlined near-term financing and procurement steps. Hill said the PUC finance team is finalizing terms with JPMorgan for a bank credit facility to support supply contracting and that the Commission will be asked to approve the facility at its Jan. 23 meeting. Staff also plans to present a program risk management and portfolio assessment on Feb. 13 and to propose updates to the program's business practice policies.
On regulatory and legislative fronts, Hill said an ordinance granting limited delegated authority to the PUC to enter into supply contracts was at the Board for a first reading, consistent with a November vote. She also described CPUC activity: a staff draft resolution on resource adequacy that, if adopted, could delay community choice aggregation expansion and startup timelines and for which comments were due in January. Hill said SFPUC and partners including the CalCCA coalition would participate in CPUC workshops and file comments.
Hill added that PG&E had filed proposed revisions at the CPUC to its solar choice and green tariff programs, which compete with the PUC's Super Green offering; SFPUC staff plans to submit comments focused on cost responsibility and allocation so programs compete on an even footing.
Commissioners asked for further demographic detail about the April and July enrollments, including the mix of residential and business customers and the composition of Super Green sign-ups; Hill agreed to provide a briefing with enrollment profiles at a future meeting.
The Commission took no formal action on Clean Power SF at the Jan. 9 meeting; Hill's update was informational and followed by questions from commissioners.
