Deciding on whether to extend it. What is your opinion on the program. Should lawmakers and the program or extended . If you think they should end it, 202 7488001 is what you should dial. If you think they should renew the program, 202 7488000. We are also on twitter at cspanwj. We are also on facebook at facebook. Com cspan. Or you can send us an email at journal cspan. Org. We will cover all the action live tomorrow beginning at 4 00 p. M. For now, we are joined by stephen of u. S. News world report ago why does the senate have to be in session on sunday . What will they be debating . Guest the senate will be in session because section 215 of the patriot act expires on monday. If they decide to extend it, it would most likely be under the u. S. Freedom act. The other option would afford to be to let it expire altogether which seems to be the less likely of the two options. Host this has already passed the house and it seems a good is bipartisan support in the senate. What is the hold
See its fairly concentrated, and a broad enough area to encompass about 20 to 30megawatts of San Francisco load, so thats really our first target audience , so within the Fourth Quarter we have this input to this point and looking for endorsement and your Comfort Level with the plan that is detailed in your packet, and then i will go through. A key part of our program is to make sure that customers understand the financial impacts if they choose to stay with cleanpower sf, so what were showing you here on this slide is the tier by tier impact, and those are tiers that your build by pg e on, and the tiers reflect how much you consume. Most San Francisco households are in tier one, that first row, and if you stay with me on tier one you will see that were projecting customers electric portion of their pg e bill to be around 21. 97 in 2013. If they stay with our program and the 100 green product it includes they will see a premium of 11. 54 they need to pay for that Product Offering so th
Manager is here as well, har an kelly and the staff of the puc. Thank you. I want to thank sfgtv for their work broadcasting this meeting, and madam clerk if you could chair with us your announcements. Please make sure to silence all electronic devices. Speaker cards and any documents should be submitted to the clerk. Okay. Do you want to call the roll . You call the roll on puc. Yes. President torres. Here. Commissioner. Here. Commissioner moran commissioner caen and cortni are both excused from todays meeting. Okay. That serves as items one and two. Lets call our hird item. Third item opening remarks and expectations for the joint meeting. Okay. Actually lets just call lets just call items four and five along with that and we can have our opening remarks that will cover all these items. Item four is general update on the cleanpower sf. Item five is discussion on the San Francisco Public Utilities commission and for the education plans for the choice aggregation and cleanpower sf prog
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