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