<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;">Eric,<br><br>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.<br><br>Mike Boyd CAlifornians for Renewable Energy, Inc. (CARE)<br><br>--- On <b>Mon, 5/11/09, Eric Brooks <i><brookse32@aim.com></i></b> wrote:<br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;">From: Eric Brooks <brookse32@aim.com><br>Subject: [Sustain] SF Clean Energy Act Finally In Committee! Comment Today!<br>To: "Green Active list" <active@sfgreens.org>, "GPSF Sustainability Working Group" <sustainability@sfgreens.org><br>Date: Monday, May 11, 2009, 9:09 AM<br><br><pre>Hi all,<br><br>Sophie Maxwell's version (first attached document) of the
Clean Energy Act<br>(Prop H) is in the Land Use Committee, today, May 11, for discussion; in City<br>Hall, Room 263, 1pm - hearing details at<br>http://www.sfgov.org/site/bdsupvrs_page.asp?id=103771<br><br>Please send comments to Maxwell and her aide Jon Lau, at<br>sophie.maxwell@sfgov.org and Jon.Lau@sfgov.org - that you want her<br>office to meet with us as authors and organizers of the original Prop H<br>to strengthen and pass her legislation.<br><br>At a groundbreaking stakeholder meeting last week, SFPUC staff told<br>various organizers working to ban fossil power plants in San Francisco,<br>that the last operating fossil plant in the city, (Potrero-Mirant) can<br>be replaced by 2010 with only 25 megawatts of alternative energy strategies!<br><br>Maxwell's introduction of this legislation is our opportunity to take<br>this SFPUC report and turn it into a legal mandate for 100% clean<br>electricity in San Francisco. But this won't happen unless all
of us<br>contact Maxwell's office and insist on being included in the legislative<br>process.<br><br>The legislation has lots of flaws that need to be fixed before it will<br>be strong enough to make clean energy happen in San Francisco; so please<br>make your comments specific as to how you want to see the measure drafted.<br><br>For some basic ideas of needed changes, see these, my recent comments to<br>Maxwell's office -<br><br>Here are proposed amendments to make the measure a lot stronger and more<br>mandatory in nature. (With the current alarming acceleration of the<br>climate crisis we now need mandates.)<br><br>1) Make the language very directive of the SFPUC, as Prop H was, and<br>also include a directive to the SFPUC to deliver a full plan to Cal ISO<br>to replace Mirant by 2010 with only renewables and efficiency<br><br>2) Correct the clean energy targets to make them mandates, including the<br>100% by 2040 mandate (include ability of Board
to amend as in Prop H)<br><br>3) Use the definition of clean technology that is in the City's current<br>Clean Tech ordinance (also attached)<br><br>4) Correct the language so that the plan is comprehensively developed<br>for all current customers -and- future Community Choice(CCA) customers<br>including detailed coordination with the projected CCA roll out (this<br>would broaden the measure to cover all electricity customers in San<br>Francisco)<br><br>5) Strengthen the public power study language so that it matches Prop H<br><br>6) Direct the SFPUC to develop a plan to sell the Combustion Turbines<br>(Peakers) to a community that will use them to replace coal generation<br>and petition the Dept. of Water Resources for authority to make the sale<br><br>7) Provide funding and direction to the LAFCo (Local Agency Formation<br>Commission) to take over the process if the SFPUC doesn't complete the<br>overall energy plan, and the Mirant replacement plan, on
strict fixed<br>schedules<br><br>8) Add specific language and funding for local green jobs development<br>and pursuit of stimulus dollars<br><br>9) Remove the language "and to offset greenhouse gas emissions from<br>other sectors" from the measure.<br><br>10) Add a clause directing the SFPUC to work with new city projects like<br>the Mission Bay campus and Transbay Terminal to develop clean<br>replacements for their natural gas power and steam plants.<br><br>cheers<br><br>Eric Brooks<br></pre><pre>_______________________________________________<br>Sustainability mailing list<br>Sustainability@sfgreens.org<br>https://list.sfgreens.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sustainability<br></pre></blockquote></td></tr></table>