i will hand off to my assistant general manager barbara hale on the specifics of the projects. barbara. thank you, supervisors. >> thank you, supervisors, for hearing this matter today. i am barbara hale, assistant general manager at the p.u.c. we operate clean power and meche power and the pedestrian lighting services. 70% of the electricity in san francisco as clean power. we serve 380,000 electric accounts. under the state's community choice aggregation model. under be that model we provide electric spry and program services. this is a partnership. pg and e provide the rest and customers pay the bill. the program which is the focus of the hearing today provides retail electric service to 4600 customer accounts as san francisco's public reowned utility. they get a heche bill. we fund and operate our street and pedestrian lights. here is the basics how it works. we generate power putting water supply to work in the sierra. you see the clean power over the transmission lines we own and to what i will refer to as electric highway operated by california independent system operator

this is present bid barbara hale. >> thank you. in order for us, power to participate in the california independent electricity market and to provide services to our customers, we need to have a certified scheduling coordinator recognized by the caiso. the r.f.p. includes two services. certified interface and pass or placement of invoices. providing the day ahead and realtime schedules under our direction to the caiso, manage our assessment and process payments and metering, outage, settlement, scheduling. a number of services to allow us to participate. the certified services interface that a.p.x. will be providing under this agreement would amount to $6 million over the 5-year period. that second set of services, the pass-through services, under this agreement would have a.p.x. scheduling coordinator managing the payments to the caiso for all the invoices we receive. it would not exceed $130.5 million. there's no additional billing fee associated with this pass through service. i ask for your approval of this item. i'm available