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Clean Energy Alliance outlines 11-month pilot to offset PCIA increases for San Marcos customers
Summary
At the Feb. 24 San Marcos City Council meeting, Clean Energy Alliance representative Greg Wade explained CEA enrollment, programs and an 11-month pilot credit available to customers who opt into a 50% renewable product to blunt higher PCIA charges; council members asked for clearer outreach and opt-down instructions.
Greg Wade, speaking for the Clean Energy Alliance, told the San Marcos City Council on Feb. 24 that his agency now serves "just over 256,000 customer accounts" across its service territory and that San Marcos residents lead the membership in rooftop solar absorption. Wade outlined CEA’s three product tiers — Clean Impact (50% renewable), Clean Impact Plus (the default product) and Green Impact (100% renewable) — and said CEA’s priorities include local control, reduced greenhouse-gas emissions and helping member agencies reach climate-action goals.
Wade said shifts in the Power Charge Indifference Adjustment, or PCIA, driven in part by a Public Utilities Commission change to the market-price benchmark and by declining market values for older utility portfolios, drove a broad increase in exit fees that appear on customers’ monthly bills. To blunt those increases, the CEA board adopted an 11-month pilot rate-relief credit effective Feb. 1 that applies to customers who choose the 50% renewable Clean Impact product. "We came up with an option for rate…
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