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@aim.com>/* wrote:
From: Eric Brooks <brookse32@aim.com> Subject: [Sustain] SF Clean Energy Act Finally In Committee! Comment Today! To: "Green Active list" <active@sfgreens.org>, "GPSF Sustainability Working Group" <sustainability@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@sfgov.org and Jon.Lau@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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