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August is a time to acknowledge, celebrate and support Black-owned businesses in San Francisco and throughout the United States. By shaking up our buying habits, we can contribute to strengthening Black businesses, encouraging job growth, and closing gaps in equity and opportunity.
The San Francisco Public Utilities Commission (SFPUC) announced today the completion of a 2-year independent power rates study for its renewable electricity service programs, CleanPowerSF and Hetch Hetchy Power. The recommendations from the study pave the way for new customer savings, including decreased monthly electricity bills for the vast majority of CleanPowerSF residential and commercial customers. The completion of the robust study further enables the SFPUC to continue delivering clean energy, support the City’s climate goals, and ensure long-term stability of CleanPowerSF and Hetch Hetchy Power.
The San Francisco Public Utilities Commission’s (SFPUC) community choice energy program, CleanPowerSF, has executed two new agreements to participate in long-duration energy storage through California Community Power – the Tumbleweed Project by REV Renewables, to be located in Kern County, California, and the Goal Line Project by Onward Energy, to be located in San Diego County, California.
Mayor London N. Breed today announced an array of new programs that will reduce carbon emissions and promote equitable access to clean energy in San Francisco, two priorities highlighted in San Francisco’s recently updated Climate Action Plan. The initiatives, which are being managed by the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission (SFPUC), include discounts for 100% renewable energy for low-income customers, rebates to replace fossil fuel powered appliances, and incentives for installing electric vehicle charging infrastructure. Together, the programs will help the City make further progress in reaching the Mayor Breed’s ambitious climate action goals, including achieving net-zero emissions by 2040.
The San Francisco Public Utilities Commission (SFPUC)’s clean energy program, CleanPowerSF, signed a new battery storage contract with a subsidiary of NextEra Energy Resources to support grid reliability for the State and the program’s 385,000 residential and commercial customers. The battery storage project, located in Riverside County, is expected to be fully operational in time for wildfire season.
CleanPowerSF, one of the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission’s (SFPUC) renewable energy programs, has officially joined California Community Power, a coalition of organizations that will provide San Francisco with greater access to procuring cost-effective new renewable energy and reliability resources and services as it continues to deliver clean, affordable energy to its customers.
As part of a multi-year, statewide energy policy to create a cleaner energy future for California, CleanPowerSF and Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) will move approximately 260,000 eligible residential electric customers currently on a tiered rate plan called E-1 to a Time-of-Use (TOU) rate plan in July 2021. On the Time-of-Use (Peak Pricing 4-9 p.m. Every Day) rate plan, when customers use energy is as important as how much they use. Customers are encouraged to shift some energy use to times when rates are lower, demand is lower and renewable resources, like solar and wind power, are most plentiful.
