Regular meeting of the local Agency Formation commission. Im the clerk of the commission, john carroll. We are doing things differently today because we are not joined by chair chan or vice chair fielder. We will resolve that in a moment, but first i have a few announcements. Convening hybrid meetings that allow in person and Public Comment while Remote Access via telephone. Recognizes that equitable Public Access is essential. Public comment will be taken on each item on the agenda. Those agenda in person will speak first and then those on the Public Comment line on the telephone. If you wish to participate in Public Comment via telephone, call 415655o001. You will enter meeting id 2 662 9307428, then symbol twice. Quou will be connected to the meeting discussion and line in listening mode only. When your item comes up on the agenda dial star 3 to be added to the queue. If on the telephone please turn down. You may submit Public Comment in writing. Email the clerk at john. Carroll sfgov daughter org or lafco sfgov. Org. Or send to the office in city hall, 1 doctor Carlton B Goodlett place, room 244, San Francisco california 9410 2. Ill submit to the commissioners. That is the end of anoncements. Lets take roll real quick. Commissioners, when you hear your name indicate whether you are present. Vice chair fielder, absent. Member williams, present. Member preston, present. Member singh, present. Chair chan, noted also absent. We have a quorum. We are ready to go. Lafco should make a tempary assignment of a presiding officer. Motion to appoint a commission as chair pro tem for todays proceedings . [laughter] we just need a motion to appoint chair pro tem. Make a motion to appoint a chair for pro tem. For supervisor preston. Okay. Second that. Thank you. Please call the roll. The motion to appoint dean preston as chair pro tem offered by member williams and seconded by member singh, williams aye. Preston aye. Singh, aye. There is no objection mr. Chair pro tem. Thank you. Thank you colleagues. Mr. Clerk, please call item 2 on the agenda. Item 2 is approval of the lafco minutes from the june 7, 2023 regular meeting. This is an action item. I have to note that the meeting is incorrectly identified on the front page as the june 7, 2022 meeting. I offer a clerical collection to that. Please accept the correct the correction to the minutes. There is no need for action to amend the minutes but we need to take Public Comment. Thank you. Commissioners, any other changes to the minutes . Seeing none, why dont we open up for Public Comment. Anyone here in the Board Chamber who has Public Comment on the form of the minutes . It appears we have none, and we have no callers listening to our meeting remotely, so mr. Chair pro tem, there is no Public Comment. Thank you. Public comment on this item is now closed. Abundance of caution well make the motion to amend the minutes as described, whether or not the motion is necessary, but just to dot our is and cross ts. Do i have a motion to make the amendment as specified by the clerk . I like to make a motion to approve the amendment specified by the clerk. Thank you. Second . Very good. Second that. On the motion to amend and approve the minutes offered by member williams and seconded by commissioner prestoncommissioner williams, aye. Commissioner preston, aye. Commissioner singh, aye. Mr. Chair, pro tem there is no objection. Thank you the motion passes. Call item 3. Item 3 is a Community Choice aggregation report. Discussion and possible action. Thank you mr. Clerk. Well now hear from Deputy Assistant general manager for clean powersf, michael hyams. Welcome and if you can please keep your presentation to 10 minutes that would be appreciated. Floor is yours. Thank you chair preston and good morning commissioners. Happy friday. Mike hyams, Deputy Assistant general manager for power enterprise responsible for the clean powersf program. I do have some slides that the executive officer is bringing up now. Thank you very much. Appreciate that. You can advance the agenda when you are ready. For my report today, i will be providing a update on the implementation of our new clean power psf generation rates. Sharing recent actions from our sfpuc commission on California Community power, the cca joint power agency, the clean powersf is a member of. Ill share information about clean powersf forthcoming power content label for 2022, and lastly, ill provide a overview of a new project clean powersf contracted with the Battery Storage project. I will be pretty close to 10 minutes. I might be slightly over. Ill do my best to keep to the 10. You can advance, please. Thanks. And one more. In april we presented the rate proposal for clean powersf puc staff were bringing to the commission in may. Those rates were just implemented so i wanted to provide a short recap. As a reminder, the city charter requires the sfpuc to conduct cost of Service Study every five years. Conducted its first rate study for clean powersf about a year and a half ago. That process culminated in new cost of Service Rates adopted by our Commission Last year that became effective july 1, 2022. The focus of that rate study was to insure Financial Sustainability for the program by setting clean powersf rates to cost of service, and moving away from the practice of closely following pg e rates, which had been the practice sinsh clean powersf launched. To prioritize customer needs as another priority, for example, being mindful of the pace of change of our rates to insure affordability and competitiveness. And lastly, to support the city Climate Action goals by insuring the rates sent the right price signals to encourage climate responsible and Cost Effective power consumption. Ultimately clean powersf fiscal year 2022, 2023 rates decreased from the previous rates in effect. Those rates provided significant savings to clean powersf customer pz during the fiscal year in the range of 10 to 15 percent bill savings relative to pg e. Next slide, please. This was the schedule of our fiscal year 2324 rate approval process. After presenting to lafco in april, our Commission Approved the new rates at the hearing in may. The newly adopted rates were submitted to the board may 11 and become effective the first of this month. The rates reflect 38 percent increase on the total average customer electricity bill for most rate schedules, primarily driven by a very large increase in power market supply cost. We are in the process of notifying our customers about our new rates via onbill messages. We have a upcoming news letter that will provide information and updated our clean powersf website with the new rate information. Next slide, please. Even though clean power sf rates increased relative to the prior fiscal year, the Program Continues to provide bill sieveings to customers relative to taking Generation Service from pg e. That is illustrated on this slide with two tables that summarize the average monthly electricity bill frz the typical residential and typical Small Business electricity customers. Etouc is the name of clean powersf default time of use electricity rate and b1 is the equivalent small commercial rate. The tables compare the monthly bills for clean powersf default green product. Super green product, and pg e default service. The bottom line is residential customer s on green product see on average 3 per month or 3 percent savings relative to pg e. Residential customers will pay about the same as pge and receiving 100 Percent Renewable Energy which is 60 percent more then what pg e offers. Small business customers will see bill savings of 6 percent of green and 3 percent super green relative to pg e service. Other customersual save 613 percent on clean powersf Green Service relative to pg e serving depending on the usage and specific rate schedule the customer Takes Service on. Next slide, please. I will move along here. Lets talk about California Community power. Next slide. Clean powersf was one of the founding members of California Community power, which we refer to as cc power. The sfpuc commission and board of supervisors approved clean powersf membership in the spring 2021. Today cc power has 9 member agencies representing over 3 million customers across all most 150 municipalities spanning from humboldt to Santa Barbara county. Next slide. Cc power membership provides clean powersf with the opportunity but not the obligation to participate in larger Clean Energy Projects that may not otherwise be possible by procuring as clean powersf alone. Membership allows for broader collaboration on the development of new programs or services that might benefit from a scaled or regional approach. Membership does not commit clean powersf to participate in any specific projects or purchase any services. Since joining cc power in 2021, clean powersf rate payers benefited from cc powers joint procurement of new long lead time Clean Energy Resource projects. To date with the approval of the commission and the board, clean powersf is participating in purchase of energy and capacity with 4 Energy Projects through competitive solicitations. That includes two Energy Storage projects, the tumble weed and Long Duration energy scorj project and under agreement clean powersf will purchase 23 megawatt share of 8 hour Energy Storage capacity. And two Geothermal Energy project up to 140 geothermal capacity. Together support clean powersf compliance with California PublicUtility Commission procurement orders issued in 2021. Next slide, please. Last month our commission took two actions with respect to clean powersf participation in the cc power jpa. First, consistent with recommendations from the puc citizen advisory committee, which were adopted by lafco, our Commission Adopted resolution number 230138 in support of transparency, environmental accountability and labor standards for cc power. Specifically the resolution recommended extending cc power procurement practices to include multitrade project labor agreements for direct construction, preference for projects within the counties of the cc power members, complying with relevant consurvey plans and avoiding environmental habitat. Improving identification of and engagement with Disadvantage Community stakeholders and Decision Making and a number of others addressing workforce environment and environmental justice. The staff will participate in discussions in the coming months regarding these important issues and will be advoitcaing for adoption of these principles by cc power. The second action our commission took was to approve payment of clean powersf share of cc power on pp going general and administrative cost and authorize the general manager of the sfpuc to obtain board of supervisor approval. As members of cc power, we are obligated to pay our share of the general expenses, and in 20 twin the bord approvedwhen the board approved clean power s rks if membership to the jpa it approved payment for the cost of three years so that comes to expiration shortly so well seek board of supervisor approval to extend that authority in the fall. Next slide. You can skip two actually. Thanks. Sfpuc staff are in the process of preparing clean powersf power content label for calendar year 2022. Think of this as the food product label that you might see at the store. In 2022 our 6 year of operation as a cca, we continued our strong track record delivering clean energy to our customers. Our green product featured 97 percent clean renewable electricity with annual emission factor of 47 pounds of Carbon Dioxide equivalent per megawatt. That is 90 percent less then california state wide Green House Gas emission in 2021. You can see the breakdown on the slide by technology or fuel type in the pie chart on the top for the green product. The pie chart on the bottom identifies the fuel mix for the super green product in 2022 which consisted of 50 percent wind and 50 percent solar sourced from new renewable portfolio standardentialable generating facilities in california. The final power content label will be sent out to all customers in september following sfpuc commission approval. I have one more content slide if thats okay. Please proceed. Thank you. Thanks. Lastly, i wanted to provide a overview of a new Battery Storage product clean powersf contracted with. Recently entered into a contract to puchs stand alone Energy Storage capacity from what is called the corby Battery Storage product. The corby project is an innovative four hour lithium ion battery system built. The agreement with the corby project allow clean powersf to meet the regulatory obligations with the california puc and independent system operator. It is significant given that it has been challenging to acquire new clean Energy Capacity recently due to various market supply and grid interconnection constraints. This project provides timely new capacity to the states grid. Corby will provide clean powersf in california with additional flexibility managing our power grid, helping keep the lights on during the hottest months of the year when demand for electricity is at the peak. The project will also allow to serve the customers more efficiently by charging and storing energy from the grid during hours of low system power prices, when solar is abundant and are discharging that energy during higher price periods typically when solar is not available. It will also help clean powersf balance its diverse Renewable Energy resources on the grid. Filling in the gaps caused when the wind stops blowing and sun isnt shining. By added approximately 300 megawatts of new clean Energy Capacity the corby project represent a siginant new investment for the bay area, it will create good paying jobs of prevailing wages, and also submitted a social Impact Partnership proposal along the bid submission incorporated into the agreement as a contract requirement. So, that actually concludes my prepared remarks and happy to take any questions you may have. Thank you for the presentation. Colleagues, if there are no questions at this time, i like to hear from executive officer pollack with a update on lafco activities regarding clean powersf. Floor is yours. Great. Thank you. Good morning commissioners. Jeremy pollack, lafco executive officer. Give me a moment to bring up my slides. Providing brief updates both on lafco oversight work of clean powersf as well as our progress on starting the studies from the mou with sfpuc. On the resolution passed by the board earlier this year that supported the mou, the board also requested lafco continue our work monitoring and clean powersf and advising the board and puc and so we are planning to deliver semiannual updates on all of the oversight work we have been doing here and working on that for the next meeting in september, and also establish tracking dashboard thats posted on the lafco website to keep track of all the various information requests from the commission and hearings we had. Switching gears to the studies, the special studies that well be conducting with clean powersf as part of the memorandum of understanding, as we discussed in our last meeting around the work plan for the upcoming fiscal year, we are starting with two studies on Battery Storage issues and with Green Bank Financing and planning to revisit the later studies, other studies later in the year as we start to contact stakeholders and sketch the scope of work for those. So, brief updates on the two studies that were underway and Battery Storage study proposing a two phase scope of work. First phase will have a narrower scope of work focused on r3 occupancy which is Single Family homes and duplexes. That is the most traditional area for Battery Storage in homes. It is what the industry deals with across the state and it is the area that Single Family homes have the most room for the traditional size of Battery Storage that where most of the roof top solar is in the city and theres a lot of discussion between puc, department of the environment and dbi and Fire Department on the various permittings issues. A major issue that we are looking to dig into is fire risk and fire safety. Fire department has a lot of concerns around lithium ion b