marin and sonoma county change their rates? >> i know marin is once a year but not sure about sonoma. >> anyone else? commissioner crews, okay. we can go on to our next presenter. john marshall. >> good afternoon, supervisors and commissioners. thank you very much for having us today. we are delighted that this issue has rapidly come back onto the table. my name is shawn marshall with lean u.s. local aggregation network a non-profit organization that works with government and allied organization on the successful and responsible implementation of

cca and nationwide. i want to provide you with top lines results with marin and sonoma. i want to add to your good report. there are approximately 15 counties in the state of california representing over 100 cities that are in varying phases of the investigation of a cca program. you may know that the county of alameda did allocate $1.3 million in their first trench of money to get started in the cca path up to $3 million. i don't think it's necessary but that's what they have done. at the same time the county of san mateo will be bringing this matter before their board of supervisors at the end of february with a potential of funding request to get started on their technical study. napa county, the unincorporated county

have joined marin program and contra costa county have also joined marin and every part of the bay area is engaged in the conversation and we are delighted to have san francisco back in the conversation. top line results. mc; launched in october 10th, the city of lancaster the first city to launch in sce will launch in may with a 35 percent renewable standard as their default light green product. in marin and sonoma both are currently saving residents money 5-8 percent less. residential rates tend to be a little bit more on par and competitive, commercially that's how we are seeing the greater delta in terms of

rate savings in both marin and sonoma. with an average of almost $12-13 million so far saved for their customers in 2014 alone. both programs are less greenhouse gas intensive than the incumbent utility and the portfolio standard in 25 percent in 1 case. this is information as of yesterday. i want to tell you that i have been in touch with my colleagues in sonoma and marin. marin has now in the books 175 mega watts of new bucket one, not rec's supported. bucket one in state renewable power under way in contract for it's customers. there are seven mega watts of feed and tariff programs, small and local

distributors. 10-5 mega watts development at the chevron refinery. chevron is donating the land or providing to marin at a low rate. that is a realtime example of a public private partnership and the kind of thing that can and should happen through cca. sonoma clean power has contracted for over 70 mega watts over all for category 1 renewable power. it's deep green called evergreen product. it's sourced locally from their local geyser project. their feed in tariff called pro fit and net energy metering are under way. they have saved their customers well over $6 million in 5 months of operation and that

was through their commercial roll out. they have completed the rest of the county and the rest of the residential role out. the last thing i will say and i want to go back to, somebody mentioned about timing. it sounds to me like there is real momentum to get going and certainly we would encourage you to do that for a couple reasons market conditions are very favorable now. natural gas is low which provides a balancing effect to whatever are renewable power you might have in your portfolio. the resources 2020 and there is excess power to be had. last thing, the city is able to file a binding notice of intent with the c puc which can be add

advantagesous because you are allowed to event your exit fees as previous year. you can look at your scenario in timeline and given the capacity that you have at sf puc you have really gone through first two phases of development. you have it. you know how to do this. you've been do unthe -- down the path. you have excellent staff and i agree with the robust analysis. i think it's safe to say that you can launch by the end of the year. that's what i suggest and i'm happy to help. any questions? >>supervisor john avalos: thank you very much and thanks for being here and i want to thank everyone for their presentations as well. we are going on to public comments and there may be questions that we might have to ask. if you are able to stay, the presenters, that will be great. we

have a number of cards. i have to nouns announce that i have to leave early unfortunately but we have our vice-chair for lafco who can continue in my place, london breed and we can continue on. i apologize but i have to run across the bay real quick and be back. i will be here for a fewer of the commenters and if you can come up and you hear a name called lineup by the window. >> public speaker: good afternoon. thank you for the opportunity to speak. the senate for climate protection is the statewide organization with a mission to inspire

a line and mobilize action in response to the climate crisis. we are the organization that initiated and led the effort to establish the second community choice program in california sonoma clean power over the course of about 9 years. i'm happy to say with the unanimous vote with the city of petaluma in december we have the full compliment of all the eligible cities in the county of sonoma participating in sonoma clean power. the three cities out in operation what they liked what they saw and they all voted to join. sonoma clean power launched in may of 2014. it's renewable qualified energy in its power mix. it's 34 percent lower in greenhouse gas

emissions than pg & e and rates that are 5-8 percent below pg & e rates. that's an apples to apples comparison. all of the recs, definition and renewable energy is apples to apples. i'm here today -- is that it? i'm here to encourage you to proceed in your efforts to launch a well designed program. a lot of what i did plan to say has been said. so just here to encourage you to do that and a senate for climate protections stand that they are ready to share our experience and in the 9 years led to launch sonoma clean power. >>supervisor john avalos: thank you. next speaker, please. >> public speaker: john rizzo with the sierra club. i would like to thank

you for getting this report out. it's a lot of what we have been saying for a number of years and gives you a lot of great information to go on and will help to sell the program to consumers. we do believe that the puc commissioners should set the not to exceed rates as soon as possible. there is no reason we were #r5ed -- ready to do this, the puc commission was ready to do this when they set the breaks on it. there is no reason to wait for pg & e to come out before it's going to charge. there are ways do that as people have said. we are living at a time when not only is this a good year right now because of the energy prices to start a program that we may not have in a year 1/2 from now, but it is a time of climate crisis and we read about this

in the newspaper everyday. a new york times poll that just came out today said that two-thirds of americans, not two-thirds of americans want their government to act to fix climate change. it is our obligation to do this. so we need to do this as soon as possible and to do it now while we can, while we still the climate to save. this is the most important thing on climate change that the city of san francisco can do is to get cleanpowersf up and running this year. thank you. >> mr. chairman, can i just ask mr. rizzo a question? john, do you know why marin and sonoma launched in may as someone referenced? was there a strategic reason why they are launching or is there a

coincidence? >> i don't but someone else might know that answer. >> i will also say that my previous hat was a founding board of clean energy. i'm no longer on that board. when we launched it was predicated on prop 16 and we actually accelerated our launch time. so it was not, it had nothing to do with the months of the market. >> okay. thank you. >>supervisor john avalos: okay. next speaker, please. >> jeremy had a response to that question. >> one of the things to look at timing is take a look at load analysis. how they are using energy hour

and day and month. you don't want it to be more expensive than the rates are more expensive. for example if you are starting in june and you expect a hot july and when the bills arrive for july they will say this was more expensive than my last pg & e bill. you don't want it where it's more expected by the use of the customer because that will be the perception of it being more expensive. look at the month to month relative same usage to take into consideration. >>supervisor john avalos: thank you. i will call a few more cards.

>> public speaker: let's show the leadership that we can and please move with the implementation as you can. let's establish a clear timeline to launch this year. thank you very much. >> public speaker: hi, commissioners. i'm representing 350 san francisco. i

would like to thank the puc and lafco for this meeting and the report which our organization was involved in. i want to echo what everyone else has said and there were many people that had to go back to work during the public comment period. maybe you can infer from our comments collectively what they wanted to say. 2013, san francisco updated a climate action strategy that listed the counties holistic vision for how we are going to get to what we e need to on climate. that is on 11-19 inches of sea level rise and 30 inches of sea level rise. i happen to know

this data is released. the 2015 climate action strategy shows moving to 100 percent renewable energy will actually take care of 46 percent of the total emissions in the entire climate action energy. from moving to 100 percent renewable energy will take care of that. that goes over 60 percent. we are talking about a plan that will take care of the majority where we need to get to -- by 2030. ultimately doing due diligence is great. artificial timelines are not great. we want do it as soon as possible. the market is right. thank you.

>> public speaker: david mccord. cochair of bay chapter's energy committee. we thank the mayor for calling for implementation of clean power san francisco and especially for calling for robust construction of a new renewable energy sources and energy efficiency retro fits on local homes and businesses. as pointed out by enernex report this will create thousands of local jobs for city of san francisco and local union jobs. we

need the commission to set rates in place with clear timelines. >> thank you, next speaker, please. >> public speaker: hello, i'm a sierra club member and an advocate of community choice aggregation of 2006. in 2007 we were promised a program would be up and running. that didn't happen demand -- and in 2012 the board voted for this and now we are waiting again. i feel like a kid on a trip, are we there yet? except this is critically important and the trip is fairly long. we are seeing climate changes globally and

globally. please stop dragging your feet. set the rates now. >>supervisor london breed: thank you. i going to call more cards. >> can you please lineup. >> public speaker: hi, my name is ramsey springel. student at u c berkeley. i can't imagine an issue bigger than this one. even as education, i graduate this year and the skyrocketing cost that is going to be a burden onto my students.

i don't see that as an important issue as when we look at the environment when we say 50 percent of the local population lives on the coastal regions. i don't see anything nearly as important as you protecting our environment many obviously all of these things are completely mixed things together. >> i want to applaud the board of supervisors and thank you very much for going over this. i think cleanpowersf is important now. i'm a little ashamed that we are not first. we should be first because we are leaders and we should lead now. thank you very much. breed thank breed thank you

>> public speaker: i'm a resident of san francisco and having worked with the community in san francisco both to shutdown the pg & e's hunter's point plant and polluting plants that were running over time and having worked with the community, i support a lot of the points that the green jobs creation etc but i want to emphasize and echo what was brought up is the lack of gauge engagement with the local community groups that have worked that have membership in san francisco such as bayview hunters point. and having heard this process for so long and not having them engaged is a huge red flag. i also want to echo the concern about having

a token project run by pg & e and having dealt with that company and the pollution for so many years. people do want to see clean projects alternative energy, solar, wind, we don't want to give more money to pg & e, we are trying to steer off having them monopolize us. but also we don't want to give them the spotlight of being able to say, yeah, we are agreeing, etc when in fact they are just ripping us off and raising rates. so as a community resident i do support this program, however this could be done right and sometimes things are going too fast and they are not done right. i just want to emphasize that as a community member. thank you.

>> public speaker: i have a speaker card here. i'm a conservation manager for the bay chapter of the sierra club. i want to say about lots of folks coming here to speak on -- to oun -- on this very important issue. john anderson, kelly >> i also wanted to speak for the youth. i'm 27 and i'm going to live a long time and climate is going to affect my life. i wanted to read a speech that my 17-year-old intern wrote to you. i'm a 17-year-old high school student. as i'm sure you are

aware climate change is a huge threat that needs to be addressed now. the decisions you make about this issue will affect my opportunities in the future. in addition i want to read a statement from tiffany clark who is a 22-year-old senior at usf. san francisco and california is experiencing a climate change. we must change this disruption. climate change is happening right at this moment. it's important that implementation of cleanpowersf happen soon. i strongly urge you that you set rates as soon as possible. we must act now. please act on their behalf. >>supervisor london breed: thank you, next speaker, please. >> hello, my name is sheila hernandez, a san francisco resident. i want to tell a story about the last time i came and talked to the puc

was 6 years ago in this building and about 50 residents from the bayview came and said they didn't want community aggregated choice clean energy. i'm a community activist here in the mission district. i was outside talking to people and they told me that pg & e paid them $100 each to say they didn't want community aggregated choice. we have an election cycle coming up. pg & e has donated a lot of money to elected officials in this city and to the city in general. we want this program launched before the next election cycle. they carry a lot of power, they are a monopoly. thank you. that's all i have to say. thank you.

>> >> hello, i want to say, where there is a political will, there is a way. where there is a will, there is a way. we had a failure of political will 2 years ago when we had not to exceed rates on the agenda. and it failed. i want to thank lafco for it's political will and financing the enernex report which helps to unbreak this log jam of excuses that we are given for not moving forward with

cleanpowersf. now we have that demonstrated the case. what i want to call you now to have the political will to not take any excuses and move this thing forward. the sf puc commission, you are in charge of moving this thing forward. i know there is a vacancy on your board and that's for the members of the board of supervisors can exercise that goal and make sure the next person in that seat is a community activist and that seat is supposed to be reserved. there is the possibility there. it's up to you folks to do what's needed for the people of san francisco and the bay area. thanks much, in advance for exercising that political will. >> thank you. i'm going to call a few names. willie rat cliff

something commissioner campos says which resonates with many of us is to stop using cleanpowersf as football. i want to emphasize with puc in the community advisory community support for supporting clean power for that voice for puc. the renovation. it's

clear they have the ability and experience to do this for this program post haste. we know the pg & e at this moment with it's object. we knew that was coming almost a year ago. based on shawn marshall's statement that opportunity to get the ball rolling now. they should include the business sector. i have heard this that they need lower rates. they have refrigerators running all day long and it's a huge part of their overhead. that dictates them not being able to pay their workers more. customers opting out later shouldn't be different than switching out

from cellphone companies. san diego, san luis obispo and others are implementing this program. it's time to move expeditiously. we want our rates and to get our rates cheaper and want to forget the unreasonable pg & e rates hike now. >>supervisor london breed: thank you. >> public speaker: my name is willie rat cliff. i publish san francisco newspaper and i own rising son investment and rising sun developers. it's about time that we moved on this issue. i'm so proud that we've been out stepped. that's been the problem.