Good morning, everyone, my apologies for being late. The meeting will come to order. This is the november 15, 2019, regular meeting of the San Francisco local Agency Information commission. Im sandra lee fewer and im joined by mr. Haney and id like to thank Mya Hernandez and mr. Smith for broadcasting this meeting. Clerk silence all cellphones and trafficellphone. Chairperson fewer can you call item number 1. Clerk a call to order and roll call. Would you like me to call item 2 . And the lafco minutes, the rescheduled meeting. Chairperson fewer can i have a motion to approve . Approved i mean, motion by commissioner mar and seconded by commissioner haney and we take that without objection. Okay, open this up for Public Comment. Any members of the public like to comment on item number 2. Seeing none, comment is closed. Taken without objection. Madam clerk, call item 3. Clerk the Community Choice aggregation activities report. Chairperson fewer i believe that mr. Michael hyams is here from cleanpowersf. And is suzanne here . No, suzanne is not here today. Shes off today. Just me. Chairperson fewer well, thank you. I have a whole bunch of my colleagues out there too supporting. Chairperson fewer hi, colleagues upon. You might hear some woots. [laughter] good morning. Commissioners and supervisors, michael hyams, cleanpowersf from the San FranciscoPublic Utilities commission. For the clean power s. F. Update ill cover three areas, provide sort of our usual enrollment and Service Statistics update. And im going to cover some broad categories what has been happening since we were last here. And i should say a bit of whats been happening because a lot has been happening. And also some key things that are coming up in the next couple months. And if i could get the slides, thank you. So with respect to enrollment statistics, cleanpowersf continues to provide service to customers successfully. And our program percentage 3. 6 since the Program Launch so we have a retention rate still of over 96 . And our super green upgrade is at 1. 8 . That represents more than 6,800 accounts that have signed up to receive 100 Renewable Power through cleanpowersf and theres been about 500 upgrades since august, to give you a perspective on how thats been growing. And now in the category of whats been happening, im really happy to be here to announce that cleanpowersf is an awardwinning program. And that last month the city was awarded the c40 citys bloomberg philanthropy award for the cleanpowersf program. The program was nominated by the mayors office. It connects 94 of the worlds leading cities to take bold action towards healthier and more sustainable future. And the award is a prestigious honor, and it provides International Recognition for San Francisco and other cities that demonstrate Climate Action leadership. C40 has received 195 Climate Action project submissions or nominations this year. And theyre evaluated on Climate Action, benefits, and innovation, governance and sharing and scaling potential. And San Francisco was only one of seven winners from across the globe. And that was announced at the c40 world mayors summit in copenhagen on october 10th. As you can see from this photo i had the great honor and privilege of collecting the award for the city. Chairperson fewer in copenhagen . Yeah, in copenhagen. Chairperson fewer yeah. Chairperson fewer someone has to do it. I dont know if you recognize that mayor from l. A. Who is now the chair of c40. And who presented the award to San Francisco. And cleanpowersf was selected as the winner in the category titled the future we want requires transformative change. Pretty bold there. And something that we certainly hope to live up to. Winning this award is, of course, a great honor. Its also a tribute to the great work done across the sfpuc and other city departments and the leadership here at lafco and the board of supervisors and the mayors office, and the tireless commitment of our city advocates that pushed for cleanpowersf over the years. So, anyway, some really good news and i wanted to share that with you. Chairperson fewer thats great. Did it come with monetary awards . No, it did not. It came with a very heavy award. Im trying to think of the right term. A trophy, i guess that you could say. Not a shiny one. If youre interested in seeing it i promise to bring it to the next lafco meeting but its heavy. And ive carried it a few miles. But, no, im really serious. If you want, i will bring it. So im also really happy to announce that were in the process of launching a new Budget Billing Program for cleanpowersf customers. This is an Optin Program to help customers to budget their utility costs by minimizing the Financial Impact of seasonal electricity usage variation in their monthly bills. Under budget billing will be participating customers will be billed based on an average of the past 12 months of customer usage to estimate a levellized bill for predictability. Currently when a pgn and e customer has signed up for the pg e program and joins cleanpowersf, the budget billing calculation only applies to the charges that pg e puts on the bill, and not the electric generation portion of the service that cleanpowersf provides. So offering this Budget Billing Program fills a really important gap in cleanpowersf service for customers also enrolled in pg e Budget Billing Program. Cleanpowersf is the first of the territory to offer this program. And were really proud about that. I think that we think that its just an important step towards delivering more Equitable Service to our customers. And we also hope that the work that we put into this will help other c. C. A. S in the territory to follow suit. This slide here is just to give you a quick illustration of what this looks like. The stacked bars in this chart represent what the average San Francisco residential customer pays per month on their electricity bill. The blue portion of the bar represents the pg e distribution charges. And the light portion of the bars represent the exit fee that pg e levies the c. C. A. Customers. And the dark green portion of the bar represents the cleanpowersf Electricity Supply charges, the generation supply. The yellow bar across the top represents what the monthly charges would look like under budget billing so you can see flat. And you can see too that theres that seasonal shape to electricity bills. And this is an average customer over the course of the year. Theres a dip in the summer, so San Franciscoians tend to use more power in the winter for lighting. We have less light. And some electric space heating as well and the increased usage. So our implementation is underway. Were conducting a soft launch of the program this month to a handful of customers that volunteered so that we can test our backend billing systems and data exchange. And then we intend to make the Program Available to all customers and begin marketing the program in january. Chairperson fewer other jurisdictions have done this also . No other c. C. A. S in california have done this. So were the first c. C. A. Program. Budget billing is not uncommon for utilities to provide and pg e has provided it in the past but we ran into billing system challenges in trying to get this off the ground previously. And there has been a lot of work put into to getting those systems in place to support the effort with our contractor, Calpine Energy solutions. So this sounds great. But its going to be optional . So a customer would have to opt in to the budget, yeah . Thats right. It is an optional program. It reminds me of a question. Were on an e. V. Rate plan and i notice that you guys made a change in or cleanpowersf had a change in the e. V. Rate plans recently on peak period versus offpeak. It seem seems that it would sim, but im just curious if you know why that was or um, i might need to look further into that. I dont know that im prepared right at this moment. No problem. Yeah, there has been a number of changes happening with respect to time of use to update the rates relative to what the cost of supply are in the market. And so that might be one of the issues. But im happy to discuss further offline. And then to provide, you know, written message to the executive director too, the executive officer. Any other questions on this . Chairperson fewer i wanted to mention when looking at this chart here on page 8 of the presentation that it just looks as though there isnt huge fluctuations between i mean, because there are its stable, if you think about people and i know that people live in the midwest and in the summer it really spikes. But the winter really spikes too. And i see this and i think that its good, but it also isnt i dont see huge fluctuations between the rates but it helps people i think to manage their bill much more efficiently. Yeah, i think that youre right about that. Its one of the benefits of living in San Francisco is that we have a very temperate climate. And we also dont have a lot of air conditioning. And air conditioning is often what really causes those more dramatic monthtomonth swings and usage and costs. Chairperson fewer okay. But i do just want to plug that i think that this program is important to a lot of customers. And we heard that. So were responding to that. Chairperson fewer yeah, thats great, thats good. Okay, so moving on to whats coming, and every year around this time the end of the calendar year i find myself in a discussion about cleanpowersf rates and we have two rates related actions that were working on. The first under the normal rate setting cycle at the cal Public Utilities commission, pg e implements its new Electricity Generation rates and power charge exit fees on january 1st. And typically we dont know what these rates are going to look like until late november, early december, and sometimes later. And based on current pg e forecasts submitted in the public proceedings, we are expecting the exit fee to go up. And were expecting pg e generation rates to decrease. I have said this before, this has become a pattern. And the combination of these changes will mean that we may need to decrease cleanpowersf rates to continue to offer competitive service. And in anticipation of changing rates we are planning a rate action soon and similar in approach to what we did late last year this time. So giving you guys a heads up to the supervisors that you may see something coming through in the next couple months. Second, we plan to bring another rate action that addresses the implementation of new default timeofuse rate for residential customers. The california pg e utilities were to transition residential customers to timeofuse rates as their default rate option in 2019. Under the states plan, all residential customers within an investorowned Utility Service territory would be automatically be defaulted to timeofuse rates. What are timeofuse rates, they vary based on when the customer uses the electricity during that day. So commissioner mar was referring to the peak off peak. And that being differentiated depending when during the day the customer uses the electricity. And the goal of timeofuse rates is to better align the rate signals that customers see with the cost of supplying the electricity, which varies during the day. And under the states program, customers will have the option to return to a different rate plan. For example, theyre flat e1s and the classic residential rate. And there will be Additional Support to help customers to understand what rate plan might be the best option for them. So online tools to evaluate the costs. Based on historical usage. And in addition the state has approved bill protection for customers that participate for the first full excuse me the full first year, and end up paying more on the new rate than they would have otherwise. So this is sort of protection to try it out. So what were doing is looking at that and developing something, a proposal to participate really in the statewide effort. Well share more information about both of these rate actions in the next lafco meeting in early next year. As reported to you in september, were also in the process of pulling together a second biannual integrated resource plan. And Renewable Energy plan for cleanpowersf. I covered some of this in september but this is really a reminder, and an i. R. P. Is a plan that forecasts customer demand over a 20year period and identifies the Energy Resource options to serve that demand. With the goal of providing customers the Lowest Cost Energy supply that will keep the lights on and the other policy objectives, like reducing Greenhouse Gas emissions and investing rate dollars locally. And i. R. P. S are a best practice in Utility Resource planning. And it has been the policy to develop an i. R. P. For cleanpowersf on a regular basis. In 2015, senate bill 350 made it state law for c. C. A. S to prepare one every two years and submit to the california p. U. C. And the plan needs to be submitted to the california p. U. C. For certification in the spring of next year. This is also a reminder, but just just to sort of keep keep focus on this because its something that were working on right now and well be reporting more details to you on shortly, that the key components of an i. R. P. Include, again, developing a longterm forecast and that includes sensitivities for new demand initiatives. For example, building decarbonization or electric vehicle charging, expanded Energy Efficiency targets for buildings. And it involved identifying options for meeting cleanpowersfs targets while investing locally. And finally it involves optimizing around a portfolio that helps it to remain competitive with p go and pg eh direct access. A couple key constraints that were including in our plan are that the Energy Supplied by cleanpowersf must be 100 renewable and g. H. G. Free by 2030. And well also be looking at alternative Energy Portfolios and sensitivities. For example, accelerating that target even further, or closer in time, than 2030. And i think that as reported before, part of this planning process has been analyzing Renewable Energy projects that can be developed on city and sfpuc property. Thats something that were including in our i. R. P. And also in forming the Renewable Energy plan and the sfpucs 10year capital plan for cleanpowersf that is underway. And heres the schedule, again, sorry for a bit of repetition here but i know this is of interest, and this is the same schedule that we shared in november. No changes to it. We started the i. R. P. Planning in july as requested by the board in resolution 9919, and well deliver a draft Renewable Energy plan next month. And that plan, again is part of the overall i. R. P. Effort. It will be seeking feedback on the draft i. R. P. From stakeholders during the First Quarter of 2020. And cleanpowersfs First Capital plan will draw from that and to be submitted to the sfpuc, our commission, in january 2020. And the capital plan will eventually go to the board for approval by june of 2020. I did skip over but i mentioned before that the i. R. P. Is due to the california p. U. C. In may of 2020. And thats thats my report today. Im happy to take any other questions that you might have. Chairperson fewer okay. Any questions or comments from the colleagues . Seeing none. So i think that we really look forward to this i. R. P. Plan. I think that the fact that the local buildout is also included in the plan, i think that its important and its what our advocates have been asking for. So i look forward to it. Thank you very much, and theres no action needed today. Thank you for your report. Madam clerk. Clerk Public Comment . Chairperson fewer any members of the public that would like to comment on item number 3 . Good afternoon, commissioners, or i guess that its morning these days, good morning, eric brooks with californians for Energy Choice and the green party and the local Grassroots Organization in our city. Just two things. One is a local note. We have heard in the past complaints from people about trying to sign up for 100 green the super green product in cleanpowersf. And i waited until i was automatically included in the program and then i tried to sign up for 100 . And i found out that those complaints are accurate. I tried with four different web browsers to sign up for 100 Renewable Energy and i could not do it. And i have been using the internet since 1992, before there was a worldwide web, so i know how to use it. So something is seriously wrong with that opt out website page and it needs to be fixed. And tested with all different browsers and things like that. And the other note is that the big drive for public power now, thats, you know, even the governor is talking about it. Im not sure how sincere he is, but hes talking about it. And we have the mayor of san jose with this interesting proposal for a coop, and senator wiener proposing a public tick over the pg e and its really important to understan