[Sustain] Tomorrow! Need BIG Turn Out For Clean Energy & Green Jobs! SF City Hall Rm 250 2pm, Friday July 30

[Eric Brooks]

REMINDER!

Need BIG Turn Out Tomorrow For Local Clean Energy & Green Jobs!

Tomorrow at 2pm in SF City Hall room 250, is the crucial Local Agency 
Formation Commission (LAFCo) hearing on Clean Power SF during which the 
SFPUC staff (and possibly even LAFCo staff) will outrageously attempt to 
argue that all of the guarantees of local renewables and efficiency 
installations in the program should be completely gutted from it and 
that instead the SFPUC staff should pursue the installations 
independently as myriad individual small project bids. This move would 
decimate the program, killing it by a death of a thousand cuts.

SPEAK AT THE HEARING!

It is vital that as many clean energy and green jobs organizers come to 
the hearing and speak. Here are some basic talking points that you can 
use in your comments:

*Both the worsening global climate crisis, and the continuing deep 
economic crisis, have made essential the widespread installation of 
localized solar, wind power, distributed generation and efficiency 
projects which will both help save the planet, and create thousands of 
local job opportunities.

*It is essential that the City negotiate a Clean Power SF contract which 
guarantees 360 megawatts of locally installed, municipally owned, 
renewable electricity generation and efficiency in the first three years 
of the program, and that San Francisco is run on at least 50% locally 
generated clean renewable electricity by 2020.

*To make certain that Clean Power SF is financially strong and has 
electricity rates that are competitive with fossil fuel electricity, it 
is essential that the Clean Power SF contract period be 15 years or 
longer so that, over time, the higher up front cost of renewables can be 
easily paid back once the fuel free operation of those renewables 
naturally becomes much -lower- cost than fossil fuel electricity.

*To ensure the economic stability of the program, achieve better 
economies of scale, and to and make certain that all San Franciscans and 
local businesses are guaranteed their place in Clean Power SF, the 
contract must also mandate that all San Francisco electricity consumers 
are included in the program from the beginning.

*It is vital that the Clean Power SF program set the highest local 
hiring requirements to date, in a project of its size, to ensure that 
the promise of a vibrant emerging local green economy is made real.

*Communities outside of San Francisco are depending on Clean Power SF to 
set the highest possible standards for local clean energy and green 
jobs, so that they can call on their own local officials to meet or 
exceed those standards.

*To ensure that all of these goals are met, we -insist- that Local Power 
give final approval on all Requests For Proposal (RFP) and final 
contract documents.

The hearing time, place & details are:

- SF Local Agency Formation Commission (LAFCo)
- Friday, July 30, 2pm
- SF City Hall, Main Chamber, Room 250
- Directions: From SF Civic Center BART/Muni, cross United Nations Plaza 
to the City Hall entrance on Polk Street between Grove and McAllister

thanks!

Eric Brooks
Community Choice Energy Alliance
415-756-8844