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City pauses CCA outreach after suppliers decline to bid; DER outreach will continue
Summary
City staff told the commission they are pausing Community Choice Aggregation outreach because energy suppliers are not bidding amid unclear state guidance, but they will continue outreach for distributed energy resources (DER) and meet with the state Department of Public Service to seek clarity.
Siobhan, the city’s sustainability planner, told the commission the Community Choice Aggregation (CCA) outreach must be paused because suppliers are not currently bidding to serve CCA programs and outreach conducted now would not meet Public Service Commission timing rules. “We’ve decided that we’re going to pause the CCA outreach at the moment because it’s not going to count towards our program, and we’re going to have to restart it anyway,” she said.
Siobhan and other staff framed the problem as market and regulatory uncertainty rather than a local decision to abandon CCA. Commissioners and staff cited the recent denial of Sustainable Westchester’s…
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