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housing to our community. with a proposal, it became clear that the existing infrastructure could not support the influx of new population. we welcome the new developments, but there has to be approved of the infrastructure. and with the help of the developer's feet, all of the visitation by neighbors -- with the help of the ordinance, we have the but the beautiful and visionary streetscape improvements ha ha. -- on leland avenue. which is going to nearly double the population in the next few years.
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bring it in with the other city developer's funds. supervisor maxwell: next speakers. >> i am part of the visitation planning alliance had also on the committee. i am here to think supervisor maxwell for your work and support on this issue. this has been a largely minority working-class neighborhood. we lack the political and economic clout. we pay taxes just the same and need the same kind of services. we appreciate the ordinance that will help pay for those much
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needed services and help revitalize our community. thank you. >> good afternoon, supervisors. i am on the board of the planning alliance. i am on the visitation valley redevelopment area cac. they are bringing a huge influx of population that will be sharing infrastructure which is shamefully inadequate for the existing population. we already don't have what we need there. that helps remedy the situation by paying for groups including the new library. it helps mitigate some of the effects of development such as the major traffic jams,
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particularly at bayshore and the blank and. we don't see a solution to that, but we feel like it begins to address -- it makes things better for us and improving the quality of life anyway. i appreciate the leadership of establishing the ordinance, and i want to thank you for your years of service to our community. >> i am here on behalf -- thank you for the work that has been done on this legislation since we first began to beat a few weeks ago. the amendments that have been made to seem to go in the direction that we always wanted and understood.
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our only concern for the future is how this will be administered by the planning commission and the planning department. we have been in the process for many years with the resumption of how this will impact us. we want to make sure we are consistent with that. i don't have anything else to add, but thank you for your time. supervisor maxwell: public comment is closed. i think it is one of the most beautiful. when we did this, we tried to make it specifics of that at the end of the day, it did not go into a black hole, but something people could see and feel.
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i believe that is done. without objection, and you. the next item. >> that we do the amendment? supervisor maxwell: as amended. this is my last one. and of the legislation as amended. as the committee reports. >> item #9, the status of the work to update energy resources.
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supervisor maxwell: someone is here? >> i have a brief presentation. i am with the san francisco public utilities commission. supervisor maxwell: this hearing is extremely important. the energy resources plan is something that was established by first year of being in office because we were looking at the power plants in trying to figure out what exactly we need in san francisco and what would we look at going 10--- 10, 20, 30 years down the future.
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>> a lot has changed. you recall we were in the midst of an energy crisis, when utilities had not been procuring power on their own. there had been a lot of legislation and changes that require that the utility's procurer renewable power. what this presentation will do is give you an update on the status of the resource plan. they identified some additionally identified significant milestones. the enclosure of the fossil fuel power plants.
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in addition to that, the city itself has been very aggressive in its procurement of both energy efficiency in real bulls in the city. today, the city has committed up to 5.5 megawatts of solar generation at the residential allahu level. -- residential level. in 2009, the board urged and into a dozen bay, -- in 2008, that they become fossil free by 2013. it ultimately identified as one
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of the long-term objectives to gradually displace all of the existing fossil generation. for this plan, the sfpuc inc. the guidance of the board of supervisors and the mayor in developing the ultimate goal. it retained the rocky mountain institute that was the original author of the 2002 resource plan to help determine the feasibility of achieving by 2013. -- 2030. in addition to that, working with the power plant taskforce, the sfpuc can build a green tech
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advisory committee. to help it identify short and medium term objectives on how to meet the goal of the electricity resources plans. what the staff did, and ultimately cut the input recommendations and the technical advisory committee and developed an unhealthy own draft of the resource plan. it mainly focuses on three-five year terms to help it reach its long-term goal and helps identify recommendations that are more long-term in nature. it recognizes the limited control over the energy system in the city.
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about 85% of it is procured by pg&e or direct access providers. the transmission in the distribution system except for limited location is primarily owned by pg&e. the one exception is the cable that has to energize in the past few weeks. additionally, like i said earlier, there has been some state and federal regulations that pre of the city and in particular, the renewable portfolio standards that dictates how the city of procures electricity. this will also identify [unintelligible]
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there are a couple of categories. recommendations leverage the existing capabilities to reduce our demand of electricity. you can view them a little bit as local controls and distributed generation recommendations. the other one is a set of recommendations that help extend and increase the amount of energy purchased from the larger wholesale market. supervisor maxwell: for those that don't know what zero gh2 means? >> zero greenhouse gas emissions.
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the goal was to get the procurement of electricity for san francisco to go -- come from resources that did not produce any emissions. that is where it came from. to review some of the recommendations, these are just groupings. there is another set of recommendations. as part of the green technical advisory committee, to promote the city of seven it is to become a test bed of new technology, it was a way of pursuing all options in the federal and state level to ensure that when new technologies become available or when there is a testing of new technology, we advocate for the city to be at the forefront.
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one of the recommendations is to include the structure of how the energy efficiency programs are currently implemented. this is a little bit key and that the current law requires that the utility's procure through our energy bills, some energy efficiency programs, and that law expires at the end of 2011. we are in a good situation to be proposing how that money gets administered and in particular to be advocating for the administration of the local elements to extend the efficiency deployment. the other recommendation is to promote the development of behind the meter resources.
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i will explain that in the next slide. and to develop a rate structure that reflect -- a mechanism for long-term financing. supervisor maxwell: [inaudible] we just did the legislation with the department of the environment. dealing with commercial buildings. would that have anything to do with what we are talking -- >> what this reflects is, right
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now, the incentives for municipal building to develop energy efficiency is different than the incentives for commercial because the price that they pay is not connected to the cost of the service for them. they essentially get a subsidized rate. there is a disincentive to develop the municipal department. that is what this reflects. what are some of these short term activities? to increase efficiency in demand response. have also found that the most cost-effective way of getting to the zero greenhouse gas goal is by reducing usage.
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energy efficiency does that introduces what you ultimately have to rely on. it follows the first one. on-site storage can be a great way of reducing usage of the customer both on residential and small retail. expanding -- the aggregate to the customers and began exploring the infrastructure by the city at areas like the terminal, redevelopment areas, hunter's point.
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increasing the energy efficiency programs. the second set of recommendations, how do they increase their control over the remaining 83%. some of the controls are implementing the aggregation program and making the decisions for energy procurement has opposed to pg&e. evaluating in developing city-of transmission projects, we are in the process of doing that right now. developing a green pricing program either through the community choice aggregation or through encouraging pg&e to do so.
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and actively participating in all regulatory proceedings the the california public utilities commission or the federal regulation commission to encourage all the things that can be done to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. we have a timeline to complete the report. we have engaged some members of the public, and we will have a follow up meeting in a ticket back to the commission. hopefully it will come back to the board for endorsement of the report. throughout the process, we have received some input and some comments that are not yet reflected in the version on the web site. i will get to that in a little bit.
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it is an issue where the tenant is not the owner of the building. who has the incentive to develop or implement some resource efficiency. is it the owner? to include more discussion, in particular, there was discussion on promoting metering pricing options to allow people that use of solar or wind to be able to sell back into the system. it is a pricing option that we would like to take a look at. it needs to include a better discussion. and we need to reflect the current [unintelligible]
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the report itself is found on our web site. there is a community power issues section and you can find the staff of dated -- updated prp. we can go back to stakeholders and bring it back to the commission and the board. supervisor maxwell: comments or questions? why don't we open this up to public comment? >> as you know, i have been doing a lot of the in-city groundwork for removing efforts
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for choice aggregation over the last few years. the last energies towards meeting -- energy stewards meeting, there were some pretty strong criticisms. part of that was just the staff and the green tech advisory committee is full of a bunch of experts that do know what they are dealing. and we are about to pass it without any strong comment or input from the grassroots community and environmental justice community. i thiank the sfpuc staff for
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changing that track. the current version, the primary emphasis on test bed technologies. we have technologies that i can roll out large amounts of renewable energy and efficiency programs. that leads to my second name comment, and a central pillar should be community choice aggregation. all of the issues raised in the presentation, it has languished not being put forward quickly enough. they need to make it the central core of the energy resources program as they move it forward. [chime] >> good afternoon, supervisors.
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i have been working with supervisor maxwell on energy issues for quite some time. in 2002, we successfully did get the puc to have an energy resource plan. it is a very comprehensive document. it does not solve anything. and by that, it has some much information that should be actually read and used by various departments. my latest understanding is that the mayor's office has gotten a grant for the department of the environment to a steady on bringing zero admissions.
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that is all contained in the rocky mountain institute report. the problem we have is so fractured. the next year, we have the department of the environment working on energy reduction programs, we have lafco, community choice. i would love to see, under a new administration, consolidation of those efforts. we waste a lot of time, money, citizen time, and we don't move forward very fast. if we have a pile of money, we can solve all of these issues. but we have to be practical.
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sophie, thank you so much. supervisor maxwell: public comment is closed. we will continue this item to the call of the chair. supervisor mar: i was just going to say before i have to leave, it has been such a great pleasure to work with you on the land use committee. i have learned so much from you and i think your the sharpest dresser on the board. i have learned a lot about how to address community concerns, criticisms, and how to bring people together from your leadership. we butted heads on a couple of different things, but it has been an honor to serve with you. i want to thank you for sharing the land use committee. supervisor maxwell: it has been great working with supervisor
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maxwell: you. -- working with you. supervisor chiu: i wanted to echo his comments. we are going to miss you greatly. you have had a tremendous impact of the past, present, and future of our city with regard to land use. there are so many projects in your direct imprint help to improve. it has been a true pleasure to work with you and i think our committee has worked very well together in resolving many of the potential conflicts that we have to resolve here at land- use. thank you so much for that. we will miss you. supervisor maxwell: i think land use and our city will be in great hands. i think supervisor mar an -- thank supervisor mar and
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supervisor chiu. i think we'll be okay. you're a pretty snazzy dresser yourself, supervisor mar. it has been great. thank you. [laughter] is there any further business before this committee? this meeting is adjourned.
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