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Los Angeles County official: regional networks deliver hyperlocal savings and workforce benefits
Summary
SoCalREN testified that local government administration reaches hard-to-reach communities, generates community reinvestment and jobs, and can deliver cost-effective resource-acquisition outcomes while dedicating a significant portion of portfolios to equity and market support.
Luana Medina, portfolio administrative manager for the Southern California Regional Energy Network and a Los Angeles County official, told the committee that regional energy networks are "ideally positioned to meet communities hardest hit" because they deliver hyperlocal programs, workforce development and direct reinvestment into local economies.
Medina said that over a ten-year period (2013–2023) SoCalREN supported more than 218 public agencies and drove roughly $411,000,000 in bill savings for those agencies, supported about 124,000 multifamily households, and helped create or support more than 2,800 jobs. She emphasized that local program delivery helps reach disadvantaged communities and that equity-demanding programs often require different metrics than standard resource-acquisition measures. "Every dollar that goes out gets directly invested into the economy of that local community or region," Medina said.
Medina urged the committee to preserve diverse administration models and to recognize that some locally administered equity and market-support programs produce community transformation that is not captured by single-year savings metrics.
