CleanPowerSF

The San Francisco Public Utilities Commission outlines its ongoing and future commitment to maintaining and upgrading the city's critical water, power, and sewer infrastructure. The plan involves continuous replacement and modernization of aging systems to prevent failures and enhance resilience, particularly in preparation for seismic events. Building on past successes of extensive pipeline replacements and construction contracts, the commission intends to continue these significant infrastructure improvements over the next five years to ensure reliable services for the community.

This Business Plan and Risk Assessment outlines the strategy for CleanPowerSF, San Francisco's Community Choice Aggregation (CCA) program. It focuses on achieving affordable and reliable service, providing cleaner electricity alternatives, fostering local renewable projects and job creation, and ensuring long-term rate and financial stability. The plan details operational strategies, financial structures, and risk management protocols to ensure the program's successful launch and prudent expansion, aiming to provide clear benefits to the City and County of San Francisco.

The meeting discussed and approved the California Community Power Joint Powers Agency (JPA) agreement, authorizing CleanPowerSF's participation in the JPA. This collaboration aims to leverage the combined buying power of multiple Community Choice Aggregators (CCAs) to procure energy resources and services, focusing on grid reliability projects like long-duration energy storage. CleanPowerSF's participation allows for broader collaboration and the development of new programs, with annual costs not expected to exceed $50,000. The agreement enables CleanPowerSF to engage in larger projects and promotes environmental and social values in the projects undertaken by CC Power.

CleanPowerSF submitted a supplemental Tier 2 Advice Letter to request approval for its Disadvantaged Communities Green Tariff (DAC-GT) revised 2024 program year budget and corrected 2022 program year budget reconciliation. The letter addresses revisions needed due to CCA integration costs and corrections to projected CSGT costs. It also includes updates to the 2022 DAC-GT actual Generation Cost Delta based on final customer electricity consumption figures. CleanPowerSF requests that the Commission approve the budgets, including the revised DAC-GT budget and reconciled 2022 budget.

The 2022 Integrated Resource Plan for CleanPowerSF aims to evaluate energy demand and supply scenarios over a 20-year horizon to ensure reliable, low-cost energy while meeting policy objectives. Key priorities include establishing a realistic path to 100% renewable energy, optimizing local supply-side investments, exploring demand-side opportunities, planning for electrification to support citywide decarbonization goals, ensuring affordable service for all communities, and enhancing grid reliability and resilience. The plan outlines modeling portfolios to achieve targets such as 100% renewable energy by 2025, 100% time coincidence by 2035, and emission-free transportation and building decarbonization by 2040.