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

[Eric Brooks]

Hi Mike and all,

Mike you are incorrect in this case. The San Francisco clean tech 
language is much more prescriptive. I've re-attached it. Please read the 
text.

cheers

Eric

Michael Boyd wrote:
> Eric,
>
> My only comment is "clean tech" includes the use of natural gas fueled 
> combustion turbines like the 4 peaker plants the City has. I am still 
> concerned that this is a stealth campaign to site the peakers in 
> southeast San Francisco.
>
> Mike Boyd CAlifornians for Renewable Energy, Inc. (CARE)
>
> --- On *Mon, 5/11/09, Eric Brooks /<brookse32 at aim.com>/* wrote:
>
>     From: Eric Brooks <brookse32 at aim.com>
>     Subject: [Sustain] SF Clean Energy Act Finally In Committee!
>     Comment Today!
>     To: "Green Active list" <active at sfgreens.org>, "GPSF
>     Sustainability Working Group" <sustainability at sfgreens.org>
>     Date: Monday, May 11, 2009, 9:09 AM
>
>     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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