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San Jose Clean Energy presents five‑year roadmap; committee forwards recommendation to council
Summary
San Jose Clean Energy proposed a five-year programs roadmap that keeps a $10 million annual customer-program budget for FY 2026–27 amid high PCIA charges; the committee asked questions about installer incentives, community solar and demand-response enrollment and voted 5–0 to forward the roadmap to council.
Laurie Mitchell, director of the city’s Energy Department, and Kate Siaba, deputy director, presented San Jose Clean Energy’s recommended program roadmap for 2026–2031 and the department’s recommended budget plan for fiscal year 2026–27.
Mitchell told the committee that the Power Charge Indifference Adjustment (PCIA) will impose a large fee on customers in 2026 and that staff expect customers to pay about $132,000,000 in PCIA charges next year; staff plan to use roughly $108,000,000 of reserves to offset that charge. “In 2026, our…
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