[Sustain] SF Clean Energy Act Finally In Committee! Comment Today!

[Eric Brooks]

Hi all,

Sophie Maxwell's version (first attached document) of the Clean Energy 
Act (Prop H) is in the Land Use Committee, today, May 11, for 
discussion; in City Hall, Room 263, 1pm - hearing details at 
http://www.sfgov.org/site/bdsupvrs_page.asp?id=103771

Please send comments to Maxwell and her aide Jon Lau, at
sophie.maxwell at sfgov.org and Jon.Lau at sfgov.org - that you want her
office to meet with us as authors and organizers of the original Prop H
to strengthen and pass her legislation.

At a groundbreaking stakeholder meeting last week, SFPUC staff told
various organizers working to ban fossil power plants in San Francisco,
that the last operating fossil plant in the city, (Potrero-Mirant) can
be replaced by 2010 with only 25 megawatts of alternative energy strategies!

Maxwell's introduction of this legislation is our opportunity to take
this SFPUC report and turn it into a legal mandate for 100% clean
electricity in San Francisco. But this won't happen unless all of us
contact Maxwell's office and insist on being included in the legislative
process.

The legislation has lots of flaws that need to be fixed before it will
be strong enough to make clean energy happen in San Francisco; so please
make your comments specific as to how you want to see the measure drafted.

For some basic ideas of needed changes, see these, my recent comments to
Maxwell's office -

Here are proposed amendments to make the measure a lot stronger and more
mandatory in nature. (With the current alarming acceleration of the
climate crisis we now need mandates.)

1) Make the language very directive of the SFPUC, as Prop H was, and
also include a directive to the SFPUC to deliver a full plan to Cal ISO
to replace Mirant by 2010 with only renewables and efficiency

2) Correct the clean energy targets to make them mandates, including the
100% by 2040 mandate (include ability of Board to amend as in Prop H)

3) Use the definition of clean technology that is in the City's current
Clean Tech ordinance (also attached)

4) Correct the language so that the plan is comprehensively developed
for all current customers -and- future Community Choice(CCA) customers
including detailed coordination with the projected CCA roll out (this
would broaden the measure to cover all electricity customers in San
Francisco)

5) Strengthen the public power study language so that it matches Prop H

6) Direct the SFPUC to develop a plan to sell the Combustion Turbines
(Peakers) to a community that will use them to replace coal generation
and petition the Dept. of Water Resources for authority to make the sale

7) Provide funding and direction to the LAFCo (Local Agency Formation
Commission) to take over the process if the SFPUC doesn't complete the
overall energy plan, and the Mirant replacement plan, on strict fixed
schedules

8) Add specific language and funding for local green jobs development
and pursuit of stimulus dollars

9) Remove the language "and to offset greenhouse gas emissions from
other sectors" from the measure.

10) Add a clause directing the SFPUC to work with new city projects like
the Mission Bay campus and Transbay Terminal to develop clean
replacements for their natural gas power and steam plants.

cheers

Eric Brooks
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