And, for example, installing the 8 megawatts of rooftop solar on city facilities as well as the grants that have been provided for private solar on rooftops. But the system is aging and needs a great deal of improvement. Take a moment and think about our mountain title as an example, its been in Continuous Operation for over 80 years with very minimal improvements. And, so, you will hear from us as our commission has been deliberating over the last several months, that our Capital Needs have increased significantly. We run a system that is in large part 50 to 100 years old. And many of those assets have had little to no refurbishment because they were built to last that long, and thats a testament i think some of the [speaker not understood] soundness of the men and women in San Francisco and those that came before us. The Central Capital improvements mean that our capital plan and our required spending is going up over 500 million alone and closer to now be a total of 883 million of e
The public understands of what youre able to provide, weve all seen the benefits of this and hopefully we can think about that as we consider our budget priorities. ~ suspect and with that i know supervisor tang has a few questions. Great. I just wanted to followup again about the California Solar Initiative. I do want to know and i think its great puc is really working on trying to identify additional Revenue Sources and all that, but it does seem like from a customer standpoint or a that Rebate Program is really a huge incentive. And, so, what are [speaker not understood] that puc is working on to connect with some of the folks who are responsible for that program to say, well, you know, maybe we should continue this, bring it back up, just kind of want to know what the future of a Rebate Program might look like. So, we are active participants at the California Public Utilities Commission and we do regularly monitor legislation in sacramento and at the federal level that affect Energ
Program elements. We may have dialed it back a little too much on the local excuse me, on the lowincome customer component. And, so, were taking a look at that as Program Administrators at that. And then a quick shot of the tiered structure of the program. This what another one of the changes that we implemented in 1314 to make sure that we were not over inventing small systems within the statutory discretion we had ~ we went ahead and tiered the incentive structure based on the size of the systems. And then for areas of improvement, we flipping through to slide 15, you know, really want to make sure that we are improving access of the Program Benefit to not just to the pg e customers who reside and work in San Francisco, but also to the customers of the power enterprise. So that the fund leaving our side of the ledger are going to our customers as well as others. We want to make sure we have financing mechanisms for Program Participants because not everyone has access to financing the
Side of the ledger are going to our customers as well as others. We want to make sure we have financing mechanisms for Program Participants because not everyone has access to financing the balance of the system cost. We want to make sure were addressing that Going Forward, making sure were really optimizing longterm Job Opportunities for disadvantaged san franciscans, you know, working with Work Force Development folks. Were very happy to have this component of our program. But given the level of appropriationses and expenditures, 1. 5 million for this program, only 121 is employed is a fairly small number when you look at the dollars spent. And then we have a quick picture here i just have one comment on the areas of improvement. One thing id like to ask as an outcome of this hearing is youre obviously going to be presenting the budget to us in the coming weeks. Yes. I think it would be helpful if you could document for the public what areas what will you be able to improve in the com
Million alone and closer to now be a total of 883 million of essential Capital Improvements. We think of our capital as both essential. You have to do it in order to keep thing just running and the low cost power coming into city hall and funding all the street lights, the General Hospital and the muni. And then also there is a lot of other Capital Projects that youll hear about during our Budget Hearing that we would like to be able to do, but theres just not funding identified yet. So, youre going to hear Capital Needs in excess of a billion dollars. Mountain tunnel alone i mentioned earlier is one that is about 6 28 million, and this tunnel has been in operation for 80 years ~ with little maintenance at all. And its a function of how well it was built and being built through granite. Additionally, to the expensive and not aging infrastructure, we have benefited significantly as a city from very low cost of distribution rates. An Interconnection Agreement settlement in 1987 with pg e