Sb350 ordered us to do and came out with recommendations one of which was better information and data on the lowincome aspects of the policy environment or program environment. But really i think it developed within the commission and across our sister agencies allowed us to have a more developed view of what it means to focus on lowincome and disadvantaged communities. I think its an iterative process for the tool. Its got value but not perfect. Commissioner that was interesting. Thank you, commissioner, for that. As our remarks were in line with yours the challenge of getting off natural gas in the building sector. For us in local government sometimes theres structural barriers in terms of regulatory definitions as well as barriers for using public good charge money. So theres historic challenges. Some sit with you and your authority and some are with the California Public utilities commission. I wonder if you can give us an insight as to how the state agencies talk to one another. Talked a lot about the importance of listening to local government. Its a triangulation sometimes and i feel stuck sometimes in that triangle. Im wondering if you can explain how the Commission Works on that and advice for local government in breaking through that triangle. In fact i was knit in the city all day and having a meeting with by counterpart at the Public Utilities commission and see where we can Work Together and not in alignment and get in alignment where were not. A lot of positive activity comes out of each of the meetings. We try to do them once a quarter or so. But they have a regulatory process that actually is quite rigid and things dont move fast. We have our own issues at the commission developing standards. We have statutory requirements of transparency and notice and comment periods and things move slowly. Patience is the number one practice and having practiced in front of both commissions in a former life i understand what a process it is in a rule making. We have the luxury of working with them behind the scenes as a sister agency. Id invite to you interact with them and the same at the Energy Commission and actually, your staff does that routinely and our staff talks with barry and the counterparts there to see what the issues are and were trying to get data from the utility to the city. So i have no doubt theyll be able to get that done. We do struggle a little bit. I think of it as a down sized a robust is they can be difficult to navigate but they produce a transparent result and thats not happening a lot in d. C. At the moment and a hold up off processes and the fact we engage with stakeholders and often agree with industry on a new regulation radical, that say function of the process. Its a trustbuilding process. It takes sticktoitiveness but im willing to help in anyway. Want to is an i really appreciate the commissions your commissions willingness to listen to local government and meet with us and work with us regularly. I feel theres more accessibility on that front and your willingness to acknowledge the importance of getting through the data barrier with the utilities. Thank you for that. Commissioner commissioner stephenson. Commissioner that was great. Thank you so much. Appreciate it. The presentation both debbies presentation and your presentation spoke to adapting to great alternative and the five things that have to happen spoke to that and when i go back twentyplus years ago the opportunity to go green and do the right thing for the environment came with a Sticker Price that was worse. It was a worse experience. And over time the private and Public Sector came together and now we get to talk about led lights and theyre priced at a reasonable rate and if electric vehicles were a horrible experience nobody would be driving them no matter how great the opportunity is here. When you look at natural gas and how people interact in their homes it goes without saying if the experience wasnt good in absence of really regulation with a lot of teeth, or a fantastic alternative no ones going to adopt it. Is there a role for the commission or are there conversations taking place between the private sector and innovation teams you talk about here in Silicon Valley and elsewhere to create the opportunities . I saw a piece of the goal was things we hadnt thought about yet. New stuff. I how is that being driven and promoted by the commission, if at all, and if not are there place for people like to us step in and do something. Its a narrative of my job at the moment trying to engage with markets to help them figure out how to do what we want them to do to meet our policy goals. Lets take heat pumps as an example. If we need to get rid of gas furnaces and move to heat pumps, theres challenges. Theres less mature. In europe and japan theyre everywhere and they do exist and off the shelf but theres market barrier in the state. City of palo alto did a project to promote heat pumps and they learned a ton. Its been difficult and theyre restarting it to learn how to make it better. Thats one example. We then have to deal with refrid refrid refridgerant refridgerantss and this is classic where there are applications and Business Model type stuff. Where and were using the thread of regulation often to say come to the table. I want to work with you and help you and fund some research. For example on health care, l. E. D. S can be transformational. I dont know how many of you have been around someone and theres machines and cords and theres no natural light. Can tune the overhead life to be a natural cycle and change the light and people have Better Outcomes and heal better and you can put amber light around the lower end along the base board to help people navigate without losing sleep. Thats an example of a Better Technology that can thrive in a marketplace if someone has the foresight it make that connection. So theres any number of ways to show society will be better off besides just energy and caron from the technologies and we have to do a better job to make the case for the nonenergy benefits because luckily they align with our goal in the energy front but as you say people need really good reasons to adopt technology. Energy, frankly, where the energy walks and i live and breathe this every day so im different. Were all thinking about it but your average person and shouldnt be the marketplace should be serving them. We shouldnt expect everybody to be an energy expert. We should say the Better Technology is out there and align with our policy goals. Out today, my contractor was demolishing my house and its now a slab and ill be building hopefully zero energy or zero emissions house in davis. Im trying to walk the walk and learn and thats going right to policy. And particularly contractor who have their finger on the pulse of what people are buying and people are doing and asking them to do is worth its weight in gold. Thats the reality check we need to make our policy calibrated to the reality on the ground. Long way of answers, this not easy and theres no Silver Bullet but again, were in california. There are so many creative people. Theres so much intellectual capital and entrepreneurship and green capital. If anybodys going to do it it will be us. Well go down swinging. Commissioner a question. Can you talk about the communications and how you work with the participating cities the cuttingedge cities to ensure your message and their messages are amplifying each other so information you get from research or from contractors is actually brought down to the level where people live and make shes decisions. Energy commission does do that, dont they . We have an Outreach Team and anybody in the industry build home or has questions about the Building Code we have like a call center situation. I think the channels are multiple and building departments are key counterparts. Weve focussed on making sure the building departments get noticed when theres a change in the Building Code, bringing them along trying to get their pulse on updates to the Building Code. Were in the middle of the Building Code update taking effect january 1, 2019 and about to open the formal process with language and theres workshops with participants in the market place. Getting to consumers is i would say more difficult. Thats where its not part of our natural skill set. We have 700 people so its not insignificant but we dont do marketing we site power plants and have statutory obligations on the planning side. Part of the unique feature of this action plan this existing building and 350 action plan is that its really trying to figure out how we look at the world beyond the world of the Energy Commission and beyond the world of the state to try to figure out how to stimulate markets to do a lot of this maybe without rebates. Ideally we wont have to do rebates theyll just do the right thing but your question is well conceived. How do we get average People Living their lives and have jobs and constraints on their time and resources, how do we get them to have plausible decision dont take hours and hours of research they can just make and not be traumatized by it and were not there. Commissioner everybody sees the billboards of turning off the lights and not using the washing machine when theres a crisis. I think people would love to have this information. Im conscious of the time. Im taking a lot of time as the first speaker. Automation again, we have a lot of technology. Everybody has advanced meters. Theres a lot to be said about building functionalities into the structures and were seeing evolution in the Building Space where lights adjust to daylight. The hvac is off in the office if theyre not there and it knows how to dim the windows, when the sun is coming through and its all automated and theres Energy Savings and its a more comfortable more functional building and the incremental costs were high and this will enable the adoption and we have to build a system to make it happen. We have Regulatory Authority that can push things in that direction but we have to meet the marketplace halfway. Thank you. Well now go to item 7b. The clerk a presentation on the energy watch Energy Efficiency program the speaker is kathleen brian, Senior Energy specialist. Thank you for having me. Im going to focus on our local Energy Efficiency programs the San Francisco energy watch and the bayren program. For the longest Running EnergyRunning Program is called the San Francisco energy watch since 2006. As the a local and Governmental Partnership and were under pge to do implementation of the program. The 12year partnership has allowed to us build a strong team inhouse of dedicated Energy Professionals including engineers, environmental scientists and construction folks. The funding for this program, as for other Energy Programs, is the public goods charge on your build. They provide buydown of the equipment at every stage and San Francisco energy watch is the only one serving San Francisco with what we call direct install from the beginning to end, audit to installation. We provide reduced cost installation to customers in San Francisco, commercial and multifamily. These change over the Court Reporters over the years and they changed over the years and worked on t12s and magnetic ballists and now recommend linear l. E. D. Lamps. For lighting we focus on interior around exterior l. E. D. Fixtures. Our contractors work on installing coolers and freezer and replacing motors and installing motors on the units on the heating and cooling side our work is more limited. We do variable speed drives as well as controllers for small a. C. Units you may see in hotel rooms. So how does this all work. Ill walk you through the process. One of our customers. For the first step is the free Energy Assessment and its a walkthrough and depends on the customers needs. It will at times focus on the area of the building, potentially the common areas or particular Technology Lighting in many cases. Other times the customer will look at all the Energy Systems of the building. After well provide recommendations including the estimate the incentives and paybacks and if they want to move forward they can work with somebody they know or do the work with their own staff. Next step is installation. Again, by our own energy watch vetted contractors or the customers own choice. Next, our staff goes back on site to do postinstallation evaluation and make sure quality installation was provide and ensure theyre happy with the work. Last step is payment. The customers can direct incentive to the contractor the advantage they only have to pay the copay or can receive the incentive directly. These incentives typically cover 60 to 70 projects. Theres not free projects anymore. We know affordable and accessible financing is a requirement. It currently offers onbill financing with a minimum loan amount of 5,000, 0 interest, no fees, the project has to pay back within five years and the barrier there is the minimum of 5,000 so what weve done is offered a microcredit option with a lower barrier for application and a lower minimum so theres basically no minimum and a term of 18 months. So i want to show to you something were starting to look at and thats how our activity has align with the potential across the city. You can see the work stands the city. Its not very visible to the audience. We represented that with the number of registered business. We used open data to look at open businesses by district and the text you see shows the percent of total incentives granted in each direct. If you look at districts 3 and 6 you see theyre the darkest in the color gradient and together represent 63 of the incentive we spent. So our achievements here i want to highlight how impactful the program has been and the 25 million is the most impressive to me. After 12 years word of mouth referrals are phenomenal. We have great Brand Recognition with property managers, Building Engineers and facilities managers and owners. We dont have to do a lot to keep the leads coming into us. It allowed us to push 25 million in incentives to 7900 projects and it saves nearly 52,000 metric tons of carbon emitted or the removal of 11,000 cars on the road. So i want to talk about just one of our pilot project. We have some Strategic Energy resources funding through our contract of pge. And theres comprehensive maintenance in the food and beverage sector. Through past campaigns street level and Small Businesses we identified a gap for customers with deferred maintenance. Our core program is good on working on widgetbased solutions but it struggles with the other systems badly maintained. These are challenges we face in the field, rust and ice build up. Business owners tell us they dont have the time or money to keep up with the maintenance on these systems but the preexisting conditions are a challenge because installers dont want to go in because they may be liable when someone breaks and if they were to replace the motor we wouldnt see the Energy Savings were expecting. So what were doing on the project now in its third year is testing several tools, energy monitoring, maintenance, training, equipment tuneups and buy and smartphone apps to empower these customers to actually track how their systems are performing. Heres a great example of someone who participated in the pile popt its a taste of vietnam. We trained the customer on maintenance and provided a free tu tuneup. We think the longterm relationships help the customer move on the Energy Efficiency journey. Another site here this customer was concerned something outside of Energy Efficiency. She was worried the hot halogen lamps would damage the product and helped replace the lighting with l. E. D. S and had lighting Energy Savings and airconditioning savings. Another customer thirsty bear. We worked with them to do a lighting retrofit and he came back to us in 2013 and retrofitted the entire space with lighting and refrigeration with us. [please stand by] [please stand by]. Aea implements the programme, but in San Francisco, we draw on that same team of Energy Experts to actually do inhouse implementation. Were the only government in the bay area that does so. So what does it offer . Its intended to remove every barrier to participation for these multifamily building owners. Typical barriers in this hardtoreach, hardtoserve sector include lack of capacity to act, lack of capital, and lack of financing. This project has specific tools to address each of these concerns. The programme covers a much broader range of measures than energy watch does. So its actually a calculated approach to encompass all kinds of energysaving measures including natural gas. And it focuses also on combustion safety, comfort and reliability for the residents. For a similar graphic here, the multifamily team, this actually represents both our energy watch and bay run work in the multifamily sector. Weve done a similar exercise to understand how our efforts align with the potential. This map shows all the activity and the colour gradient this time represents the number of multifamily buildings. So you see a higher percentage in district 2 and 3 in the centre of the city, and as expected there, you see the greatest amount of work by energy watch. And bayren. So bayrens results, as we said, bayren is a regional effort, but each county actually has annual goals for a number of units upgraded. When one county falls short, another county will step in. And San Francisco has done this every year since 2013. The San Francisco represents just 25 of the eligible multifamily buildings. The family delivered 40 of the regional goal in 2015, 33 in 2016, and 27 in 2017. So in 2017, we saw a big uptick in participation by alameda, contra costa and santa clara counties. And thats because of pentup demand. There werent any multifamily programmes in existence before the bayren programme. So they actually were big contributors last year. So our results, you can see since 2014, we visited 338 buildings throughout the city. This is a team of basically two fte who were doing all these site visits, covering 22,500 units. And most impressive is that 31 were converted. We dont see numbers like that in any programme weve run before. So that amounts to 7,000 completed units over 85 buildings. And were starting out really strong for 2018 after a very successful 2017. We already have 1200 units in construction. And across all the buildings, these sites are saving 18 sitewide, and thats really impressive, very difficult to do when youre just working on this deemed model of light bulbs, replacing things one at a time. Its a comprehensive look at the buildings Energy Efficiency. So thats all i have for you. And id love to answer any questions and appreciate the opportunity to talk on behalf of my team. Thank you. Were going to go to we have five we have five items under this number 7. Yes. So i think were going to go to the next commissioner from the california Energy Commission, and then well do questions after that. Okay. Is that correct . Thank you. All right. The next item is item 7c, presentation on californias Renewable Energy and zeroemission vehicle mandates and achievements to date. The speaker is member of the california Energy Commission. Bearing gifts. Thank you. Good evening. And good to be with you all. And let me just first begin by extending our condolences to all of you for the loss of mayor ed lee. He was 56, but i think he was the tallest man in San Francisco when it comes to the environment, and he really stood strong, and he was relentless, and it was a real passion for him. And i worked with him for 20 years, and its a big, big loss. And i think what he would want us to do is to continue. And my main message to you today is keep being bold. I am a San Francisco native. I worked for several mayors here in San Francisco, you know, mark renault and others. We did some really big solar programs, residential and municipal, and i watched that affect the state and get the state to raise its game, and ive watched and worked on spreading those policies to other states and other countries. And right now whats happening, california has sort of become a country, essentially. And i visited nine other countries. I just got back from israel and the palestinian territories last week. And what were doing is having a global impact, and california cant be a leader without cities like San Francisco. And you guys are at the tip of the spear. So keep pushing. So im going to walk through some of the good things that are happening. Its been a rough year this last year. But theres actually some great developments as well. And i want to share those, and im happy to open it up for questions. So the good news is for the last two years in the United States, actually the majority of new generation being added to the grid, about 65 , is coming from Renewable Energy sources. So were winning not just in california but at the national level. And this is a function of Cost Reduction because weve Seen Technology like solar and wind that get incubated and cultivated at the local and state level reach maturity and then compete very effectively. And on the other side, you look at the retirement, so these are the power plants coming offline, 92 fossil, mostly coal. So were exiting the coal era and entering the clean energy era. And actually, thats something that donald trump cant stop. This is pure economics. And you look at the bets that the heavyweight investors and Power Companies are making long term, nobodys going into coal, right . No matter what the red earth may be, renewables are the future. So by the way, one point to remember, our ability to advance clean Energy Markets is much better than our ability to predict the advance of clean energy market. Its a little hard to see, but the bottom line is the prediction of the growth of solar and the black line is what actually happens. So weve basically been off by an order of magnitude, all the federal department of energy projections. And its important to keep that in mind because we need to have an expansive sense of possibility about this transition. Were going to get to 100 Renewable Energy and electrification of almost everything. And that may seem outlandish, but i think its exactly where were headed and where we need to go. One point to keep in mind, theres functionally three differences between how we subsidize at the federal level, Renewable Energy sources like wind and solar and geothermal and others, and how we subsidize fossil fuels. So fossil fuel subsidies have been around much longer. It started in 1926. Fossil fuel subsidies are much more numerous. But most importantly, they dont expire. The oil industry is a fully mature industry. It does not need subsidies. We continue to subsidize it. Meanwhile, the solar and wind tax credits are only implemented much more recently and had a series of stops and starts. And thats a really difficult to way to grow an industry. Of course both tax rates are going to be expiring in the next few years. And so what were seeing is states like california, new york and hawaii and others that are stepping up are really just trying to level the Playing Field from the imbalance that weve had in federal subsidies for so many years. As you know, we have a law now mandating 50 renewables by 2030. This is building on the first renewable portfolio standard which was passed about 15 years ago that required 20 Renewable Energy by 2013. That got raised, first law actually Governor Brown signed when he came into office in 2011 was to raise it to 33 Renewable Energy. I happened to be in the legislature that day. Theres a legislator who will go unknown, but he took the bill and he threw it up in the air, and theres papers, you know, flying like snowflakes. And he said this is impossible. This will never happen no other state is doing this and were at 30 today, okay . So and were actually if you include large hydro, were actually at 40 Renewables Today in california. And were actually on track not just to hit the 50 target by 2030, but to blow by it. So weve installed more Renewable Energy in the state of california than any other state in the country. And its important to go back and ask, well, you know, what do the critics say at the time we started . Well, there are basically three myths that were propagated about the disasters that would bee fall california if we were to build big on renewables. That it was going to crash our economy, raise our unemployment and the lights were going to go out. And these guys are still saying the same things in other states and countries. So what happened sorry, let me go back. So what happened, basically the california economy since 2000 has grown our gdp by 40 . The other 49 states have grown by 28 . So our economys growing faster than the national average. Weve cut unemployment in half in the state in the last five years. And weve had no statewide rolling blackouts since these policies began. The blackouts weve had from the energy crisis, of course, have nothing to do with renewables. That was market manipulation from enron. But we have to continue to dispel this mythology because its still out there in the public dialogue. The good news is that when you look ahead of the cost trends, basically all of what i call the foundational technologies of the Clean Energy Future, the cost trends are heading in the right direction, downward. So wind, residential pv, utility fuel pv, battery costs, et cetera, l. E. D. S, step back and think about it, over the long haul as fossil fuel supplies diminish the price will eventually go up. With technology, its the opposite. Its just like refrigerators and cell phones and flatscreen tvs as you scale, the costs come down. So were on the right side of this cost curve. And its this reason for optimism. In california, were moving very quickly. In 2008, we only had 12 Renewable Energy. As i mentioned, actually, now were at 30 renewables as of last month. And we dont count hydro with over 30 megawatts as a renewable resource. If you add that, were at 40 today. So im going to take you guys on a little California Clean Energy tour. This is my favorite chinese proverb. The people say it cant be done should get out of the way of the people who are doing it. Were going to do a little tour together. Some of the projects that are creating this Clean Electricity were using. So this is the Worlds Largest thin film solar pv project. Its just north of our border with mexico. Its 550 megawatts, about half the peak demand of a city like San Francisco. And the interesting thing about this project, i dedicated this a couple years ago, even over the course of construction of this one project, there was all of this innovation. This whole site was graded. So they had bulldozers come in and grade it. Thats 15 of the cost. Theres environmental damage associated with that. They learned how to avoid that altogether. So now these projects are typically not graded. Half of this solar field, the southern half, theres aluminum frames around the panel. They actually learned how to avoid having to put those on altogether. So the second half doesnt have that. The efficiency of the solar panels was not high enough at the time they constructed this project to justify the average cost of being on a single tractor. You get about 25 more power when youre on a tracker but you have to have a high enough efficiency. During the course of construction they reached that high efficiency. So going forward, this is the first solar project, all the projects are on trackers. So just an example, innovation just over the course of construction of one project. Were also home in california to the Worlds Largest solar thermal tower. This is the project about 400 megawatts in size. What youre looking at there is three 550foot towers with a boiler on top surrounded by 173,000 heliostat mirrors. The sun hits the mirror, the mirror focuses light. And we also are home to the Worlds Largest solar thermal power plant. This is not new, by the way. This is over 30 years old and a real testimony to the durability of renewables. And were just an hour and a half north of us here in San Francisco is the Worlds LargestGeothermal Power plant, the geysers, about a gig ga watt in size. And were home also in california to the Worlds Largest wind project. We also have a Wind Energy Center which is in the county. This is the second largest taxpayer in kern county. So really almost every Clean Energy Technology category we have the largest project in the world. We just installed it was the largest Battery Storage project in the world until that got beat by one in australia. This is a race we like to lose. We want other countries stepping up. So this was put in in san diego last year. And were leading the nation as well in biomass energy. One of the other trends were seeing in renewables which is positive is powers in wind. So the early version of the Wind Turbines had very, very high rpm. About 45 rpm. And what theyre doing now is removing these as an example, this is called vasco about an hour east of here. They had 432 of those older turbines that were on a lattice structure, which is a perching opportunity for birds, okay . They removed all of those. And replaced them with just 34 of the new turbines, which are solid steel column. Theyre bigger, about 12 rpm. And actually, they cut the mortality by 70 , and they tripled the Energy Generation. And they, of course, freed up a lot more land. So this is whats happening in wind around the state, and its a good thing. Because every farm of Energy Generation has an impact, has an environmental impact. And were finding ways even with renewables to reduce that. Were looking ahead. All right, whats next . One of the resources im really excited about and optimistic about is offshore wind. So last year in the United States, we installed the very first offshore wind project, which i visited. This is a picture i took from the 30megawatt project. And the big difference between offshore wind in the east coast and the west coast is the east coast has a shallow shelf. So the foundation turbine sits right into the sea bed. Here we have a deepwater shelf. But theres a new technology that allows you to do essentially a floating turbine. As you would like an oil rig. Its floating and its tethered to the sea bed with three hightension cables. And the advantages that actually the wind resource is significantly better offshore. About 50 more. And when you put these, you can site them at 15 miles. What happens at 15 miles . You cant see them. Theyre out of sight. And you think about actually where this could go. 80 of electric demand in the United States is in coastal states, if you include the great lakes. And, of course, within coastal states like ours, our load is at the coast. San diego, l. A. , San Francisco, san jose, oakland. So and with these turbines, you get much, much bigger size. So typically on land in california, we see only about 2 1 2 megawatts. Theyre up to 8 megawatts today offshore, and theres a line of sight to even getting to 12 and 15megawatt turbines offshore. By the way, very complimentary Generation Profile to solar. Offshore wind is way up in the morning, goes down during the day and then comes up during the afternoon and evening. And thats a picture of some of the different technologies. Our largest manufacturing plant in the state of california today is an electric car factory. Tesla is spending most of tomorrow there. 33,000 employees at tesla now. And with 362,000 electric vehicles on the road in california today. About half the u. S. Market. And i just got my First Electric car, the chevy volt. 10 people including two state legislators to get this car. I have a very Bright Future as an electric car salesman. Im looking out whos next on my list. By the way, ev can play and already play an Important Role in helping integrate renewables. Because what we want is actually to have sort of an electric vehicle happy hour where they are charging during the time we have surplus solar and Wind Generation coming on the grid. Just as an example to keep in mind the sense of possibility, it took General Motors and ford, both of those companies, over a century to become a 48 billion company. Tesla is now more valuable than both those companies. And they just started in 2003. This is a slide i love this. This is from 1900 in new york city. All these are horsedrawn carriages. And thats the first car. And then 1915, theres the last horse. You can see how quickly it changed. So one benefit of all the policies that california and San Francisco and other cities have adopted to promote this Clean Energy Future is the job creation. We have 100,000 employees in the Solar Industry in california today. All of our states utilities combined, 56,000. So its an incredible story. It will be set back by yesterdays decision which was an egregious selfinflicted wound that the Trump Administration adding this 30 tariff in my view is a big step back. And i think its very arbitrary. Obviously theres no cell phone manufacturers anywhere in the country. Were not talking about slapping tariffs on cell phones. This is and the vast majority of the solar jobs, more than 90 , are not in manufacturing. So making solar more expensive will definitely this next year unfortunately result in some Solar Industry job losses. The other piece of the puzzle thats important is storage. This is a picture of the tesla battery factory, which is in sparks, nevada. Its connected by rail to the tesla car factory. We have a storage mandate in the state of california, 1. 3 gigawatts by 2020. You know, this is how you get cost we think about how does cost come down for efficiency, l. E. D. S, electric vehicles, solar, wind, its the same thing. Its three things. Its innovation, automation, and scale. And its mostly scale. And so this is the second largest building in the world thats being built to build these factories. I mentioned the electrification of almost everything. Just a quick tour of some of the highlights, we funded all these technologies. This is a new electric Bus Manufacturing Company that just opened operations and is manufacturing electric buses in california today. They just did run a test track to see how far that the new vehicle could go. Empty bus, 15 miles an hour, 1,100 miles on one charge, okay . Were at a new era in terms of the range of these cars. Weve also funded through research and Development Program a Company Called zero motorcycles. Thats the tesla model 3. And thats the electric bike i got. Im the slowest biker youll ever meet. And so i got this electric bike. I put my 12yearold daughter, you know one of those half bikes was attached. I was going up a hill with my daughter on the back, and i passed this guy who is wearing the matching outfit. Like hes racing. I passed him going uphill. He had no idea i was on an electric bike, and it felt great. I highly, highly recommend it. We put in also about 14,000 electric vehicle charging stations throughout the state and many, many more on the way. Thursday of this week, Governor Browns going to be giving his state of the state speech. And well be talking as well about our goals advancing on this issue. Some great commitments from the private sector as well. Companies like google, apple, facebook, General Motors and walmart have already committed to get to 100 Renewable Energy. And thats nice. You dont need to get through a vote. You dont need to get through congress. Incredible leadership, and im really proud so many of these are headquartered in california. And, of course, in the Divestment Movement, incredible progress. And i know we have a vote coming up on that. Were at already 5 trillion of institutional commitments to divest from fossil fuels. I think its hugely exciting and meaningful movement. Obviously it will change the course of history in south africa. And its just great to see the momentum on this. Were also doing highspeed rail, as you know, we spent about 3 billion already on the infrastructure for that. The commitment has been made for highspeed rail service to be powered with 100 Renewable Energy and every single station on the highspeed rail network will be a 0 net energy building. So let me just close with this. I think the analogy to where we are with fossil fuels is very similar to the story of smoking in the United States. Okay . So during world war ii, we gave a pack of cigarettes per day to every soldier as part of daily rations. A generation of american men come home smoking. Doctors did ads for cigarettes. Fred flintstone smoked, johnny carson, president kennedy smoked, Marilyn Monroe smoked. Some people say they smoked together. [ laughter ] and then the truth came out that hey, smoking causes cancer and Secondhand Smoke causes cancer. The response to the Tobacco Industry was to spend 100 million to junk science to distort that basic truth. But Martin Luther king said no lie lives forever. And eventually that science got accepted and it led to this cascade of policies to reduce smoking from warnings on packages, banning cigarette advertisements on television, increasing cigarette tax, banning smoking on airplanes, selling to minors and restaurants. And today weve cut smoking down to 15 . And its projected to fall 12 by 2020. One of the biggest Public HealthSuccess Stories in our countrys history. And i think the world has a smoking problem. And were dealing with this exact same junk science dynamic with the fossil fuel industry that i think this is the trajectory that were going to follow. And with that, ill stop. Thanks. [ applause ] commissioner ching ting wan thank you so much for your presentation. Its very exciting, and thank you for the advice to continue to be bold in San Francisco. And all over. Commissioners questions. Were going to take questions and then i think well also have questions after we have questions for commissioner huckshield. That would be commissioner ahn . Commissioner ahn just a question or a general comment for the commissioner. Its great to see you back in San Francisco, of course. Your local city and county community, i remember your commitment to go solar as well as your closeness with dr. Jackson who unfortunately passed a short while ago. Its great to see you play on the state and global stage at this point. I think your presentations really exciting in the context of our next item, item 8 on divestment resolution. And i wanted to unpackage a comment you made. Hopefully that will inform the commissioners because the retirement board has actually issued an 87page staff memo extolling the virtues of oil. I was wondering if you could talk a little bit more about your comment that oil as a fully mature industry and what that means for oil growth being capped or whats the time line for renewables to transition from oil economy as well . Well, i think the choice for cities like San Francisco, you know, we get to pick what kind of future we want to build. You know, do we want to build our city and our state on the polluting fuels of the pastor the Clean Energy Technologies of the future . And this transition ive described is going to happen. I absolutely believe its going to happen in this century. How quickly we get there matters a lot. There is a climate clock at work. You know, and you look at, you know, the numerous subsidies that fossil fuels, not just coal not just oil, but also coal and natural gas, gas is exempted from the Safe Drinking Water act and all kinds of other favors that are not done for other industries. That has hugely tilted the Playing Field in their favor. And i think you look at what we can do to help rebalance that, i do think divestment is a very timely and important tool. And it matters. And we have seen just in the last few years, ive seen specific projects, coal projects that were not able to get funded because the Divestment Movement basically enough banks, you know, got cold feet, and they couldnt raise the money, and it killed the projects. And so i am absolutely personally a supporter of that as an instrument. And, you know, i look at im very hopeful about where were going with electric vehicles and getting off of oil long term. But these things dictate very clearly whether we do that quickly or slowly. Commissioner ching ting wan commissioner, all yours. Thank you so much, commissioner. I have a question and then i have some food for thought. Ill start with the food for thought. So first of all, thank you for such a powerful presentation. In these times that you referred to mittically, the obvious, like, intersection between social movements and the ability to influence government positively is really essential. And so i was just curious, and you dont have to comment on it, i just noted that you said youre going to tesla tomorrow. So as someone who has a long background in the labor movement, i know theres been many, you know, filings against them on harassment and the right to organize. So i know theres a lot of social movement particularly on the climate movement. You know, pushing for a fair resolution of that. So i just wanted to offer that up to you. And then my question for you is about sb100. So i know we didnt get there last year. Its now to your bill. Its so exciting that around the country, were having all these cities commit to 100 clean energy and of course the state of hawaii as well. So im just wondering pathways, says thoughts, ideas you have and roles we could play in helping get that over the finish line. Sure. Well, your points are well taken. And on sb100, the bill has been reintroduced. It is moving forward. And obviously, at the Energy Commission, we do what were directed to do from the legislature. That is in her hands. But its based on the model that was pioneered in hawaii. So representative chris lee authored successfully that bill, first state in the country to mandate 100 Renewable Energy by 2045. [ please stand by ] also where w with renewable generation. Its the new frontier but well see what happens this year in the legislature. Its top priority for senator leone and well see where it stands. Commissioner stephenson. And i like your analogy. Were just asking people to keep their cigarette and keep what they want and do what theyre doing but it took an extraordinary amount of social marketing, not social media, but social marketing to move the needle and move Public Opinion in the face of the bad science. Its not really a question mark comments. I go back to commissioner walts comment where theres a need to tell the story over and over again that dont sit in the room and dont think about these things theyll time. I dont know how much outreach opportunity we have but i do think theres an opportunity at the state level to do a little bit more of that story telling in a way that may help things move faster. Its a great point. My observation my mother a sociologist at berkeley wrote a book on why some people are the way that are and i went to louisiana and everybody i met with had a different political orientation but when we talk about Renewable Energy they support it. I think this is mom and apple pie. Its just good for our country. Its domestic, its clean, its healthy. Theres a huge opportunity for growth and jobs. I am hopeful we can find a way to depoliticize this which is what needs to happen. I think we have to get back to the basic this is good for our country no matter who you vote for for president this is sm smug something you want to support. Communications half of what we should be doing. Were making a lot of headway on policy. Ive been travelling to other countries. Ive been to nine other countries in this job and thats been great but we need to do more domestically as well. Youre points well taken. Commissioner thank you. Do we have question for Kathleen Bryan and well get back on track . Our last presenter. I have one. Commissioner stephenson. I got to see the great work you guys are doing and i know that Small Businesses are being well served in the family multifamily units are being served. Is there a way for them to get the same kind of access will is there some place at the state level or county regional they can go to for that . Where would they go . Straight to us. Can you give an url . The best is to direct you to someone on our team. Commissioner thank you. Anthony the next item. The clerk the next it em is a presentation on San Franciscos Community ChoiceAggregation Program clean power sf. And Jessie DenverProgram Manager will be speaking on behalf of the director and combine it with item 7e with the energy distributed Energy ResourcesProgram Including zero emission vehicles. Hello. Great. Okay. So the citys Energy Program aligns with the states vision and action to help shape the Energy Resources future. The citys Energy Program not only works on Energy Efficiency and renewables like youve heard tonight, but also in collaboration with our colleagues at the sf puc works on rab