California and oklahoma are not alone. We know texas leads the nation in industry. Many states in the midwest as well as the west and south are taking action to ensure ratepayers and citizens against risk to reliability that come from 30 and inefficient coal plants by replacing them wordy dirty and inefficient coal plants by replacing them. We think the Clean Power Plan will encourage states to date broader advantage of strategies theyre are already using saving money, and invigorating economies across the country and to the extent they choose to Work Together around their regional grids, they will do even better because we know the regional approach will be more costeffective for all. We believe the net benefits of this plan amount to Something Like 48 billion to 82 billion in 2030 as well as greater productivity, lower cost, and a more efficient and secure energy system. The bottom line is it builds on 40 years of success. It now confronts us with an opportunity to address one of the
Research tract faculty. There are jobs in industry, journalist, many where needed and we want to be sure people find the right match for themselves. We have started new programs, an early independence award which im excited about which allows a talented phd to skip the post doc and go to an independent position. I go to the presentations each year and its the most exciting day of the year because of their vision and their ideas. Similarly we have this new award where you cant apply if youve previously had a grant and your valentines day has to be out of the box, a little wacky for you to be allowed to apply for that proposal mechanism. And when we look at the output it has been truly impressive. All that is great but of course it doesnt solve the main problem we have which is this loss in purchasing power for research. We can try to balance things as best we can, protect those young investigators. We can only go so far. I appreciate that. And resources are obviously key to this as well
To avoid shifting costs to nonparticipants which would make it difficult for a program like cleanpowersf to compete against it. So, trying to preserve those options. As i say, thats all activity ongoing at the california puc. And then of course there is some legislative activity picking up. We have new legislate ~. We have a bill introduced by Assembly Member bradford ab [speaker not understood] that were keeping an aye on and a bill introduced by Assembly Member ammiano, ab [speaker not understood]. We dont think theyre meaningful so im not going to get into that. They are on our watch list so we encourage you to keep an eye on them as well. Thank you. If you could give us an example of what 20 megawatt would be serving the community. So, for example, there are some large warehouses in the sorry, in the bayview Hunters Point area. We thought solar there would be less than 20 megawatts greater than 1 megawatt. Those would be system that would be considered distributed under the rules.
~ i know in the program ms. Hale had up about hetch hetchy power, showed basically a net zero gain to San Francisco. There are potentially other gains to the city and county of San Francisco and thats one of the issues of the rfp is to look at both in terms of jobs and impacts to the economy. And i will also say that even within our own cleanpowersf program right now, some of those costs are discretionary in terms of local buildout. So, what we were looking for if our consultant is to talk to us a little about given the new financing projections from sfpuc, what kinds of rate structure could we look at in terms of dealing with hetch hetchy purchases that might provide zero or potentially some positive numbers. So, the important dates of the rfp was posted on february 20th. We will have a preproposal conference on march 12th. And the due date is march 27th. On term of the tasks, we dont yet have dates about when tasks are due because that will be a result of the proposals that we receiv
And then of course there is some legislative activity picking up. We have new legislate ~. We have a bill introduced by Assembly Member bradford ab [speaker not understood] that were keeping an aye on and a bill introduced by Assembly Member ammiano, ab [speaker not understood]. We dont think theyre meaningful so im not going to get into that. They are on our watch list so we encourage you to keep an eye on them as well. Thank you. If you could give us an example of what 20 megawatt would be serving the community. So, for example, there are some large warehouses in the sorry, in the bayview Hunters Point area. We thought solar there would be less than 20 megawatts greater than 1 megawatt. Those would be system that would be considered distributed under the rules. Theyd be local. They could be located and what qualifies as a Disadvantaged Community here in San Francisco. So, thats an example. Great, thank you. And then whats the current status of our shell contracts . So, the shell cont