Hi all, The coalition championing CleanPowerSF has finally succeeded in getting the SF Public Utilities Commission (SFPUC) to make a local buildout of hundreds of megawatts of renewables and efficiency the essential foundation of the program. The study and bid preparation work for this buildout will be completed by the end of 2012. (See attached the press release announcing the buildout victory and the Local Clean Energy Alliance estimate for the thousands of local jobs that this buildout will generate.) This program will run San Francisco on over 50% clean electricity by the end of the decade. IMPORTANT: FINAL CleanPowerSF VOTE IN SEPTEMBER On Wednesday September 12, legislation enacting both a small startup energy purchasing contract with Shell Energy North America, and approving the larger buildout program, will be introduced in the Board of Supervisors Budget & Finance Committee. In early September prior to that Budget and Finance hearing, we will need every possible organization and individual to contact the Board and Mayor to support the legislation. If the legislation is approved, the program will at last begin in early 2013! We are almost there. But we will need a STRONG uprising of community support. (Especially in light of the fact that a PG&E PR Executive was just made the head of the San Francisco Democratic Party.) I will post again soon with an action alert for supporting the legislation. cheers Eric Brooks Campaign Coordinator Our City http://ourcitysf.org