Now about our Energy Future moving forward, trying to look at one of the ideas thats come forward in terms of what we could use as a region are some incentives to actually move towards new Building Construction that is not just Energy Efficient by also is a noncarbon future for these buildings, so noncombustion heating systems, the boilers wouldnt be boilers any more, they would be Something Else that we could put in place, and thats a place where i think there could be work that we could enhance through legislation moving forward and has the department of the environment worked on these types of ideas . Yeah, we are very much now looking at updating the rico, which is the Residential Energy conservation ordinance, we may be coming back to you hopefully soon with some measures for existing buildings. When we talk about new construction were doing a lot of work now looking at the roof, what do we want to do about green roofs and solar, looking at electric vehicles, electrification, this
And jason and the stake holders. Thank you. Great, thank you. Miss hale theres been some activity at the california puc that we wanted to report on. You will recall i have reported a number of times now on their activities with respect to pg es green tariff application. They issued their decision, the cpuc, california puc, issued their decision in late january and that decision was forth the schedule for pg e to file their advice letters, which are the implementation filings that the utilities make after the California Commission tells them what they have authority to do. And that advice letter, pg e will be providing more specificity around a number of the programs features including final rates for the program that they are planning to launch. The sdis, i spoke to some important issues but also deferred a number of issues. For example, the Community Outreach and strategy for engaging low income customers, i think thats an important issue for San Franciscos interest. Options for makin
Because they have a lot of needs for ventilation and other things through that roof top, so theres a lot of competing needs plus the size and the density of the energy needed may mean its difficult to replace a natural gas fired boiler with other technology unless we can find some other source for the gas, like bio gas. Its easier to do in low rise buildings. Thank you. Colleagues, any other comments or questions . Vice chair cruz. Thank you. I just want to thank the department of the environment for coming here today. This was something that i was really excited about, to see the presentation and i spoke with mr. Broomhead before, giving me some ideas on what are the possibilities out there. And what i understand is that there is a whole host of ideas and programs and efficiencies that can be made available for clean power sf customers that they just would not have had the opportunity to see even to find funding for or to package the programs together in a way that they just couldnt g
Little bit of that luxury of time to plan so that when we know the amount of money thats well have a menu of things we can do and depending on how much funding the cpuc allocates to the cca, theres a little bit of argument, as you can imagine, between pg e and ccas between who gets the public good charge money and how much and that hasnt been settled yet. Thats why barbara hale and i have a hard time planning our budgets for additional resources. We know what we have now and as kathleen said were fully expected to keep going where we are now, but that additionality is tough and its tough no know how much and when. Whether its legislative or not, the voice of this body needs to be heard at the California Public Utilities Commission. I mean if you look at whats going on internationally now, theres tremendous understanding that Green House Gas production emissions happen at the city level and we are fully equiped to make those happen if we have the freedom to do it right and thats the mes
Market rate luxury housing in San Francisco. Im not sure, the majority of these buildings are they going up with systems that are actually noncarbon, are they actually maximizing efficiency, are we seeing solar on these buildings . And if not i think its worthy of putting some requirements on especially the market rate luxury housing that the exploding the city to be able to put these requirements on them and i think the department of the environment weighing in on that would be really helpful. We are definitely excited about the opportunities for heat pumps replacing combustion heating for water heating and space heating. There are real and solar water heating, of course. Unfortunately for tall high rise buildings once you get over about 10 stories, the possibility of being able to have much solar access on the roof is extremely diminished because they have a lot of needs for ventilation and other things through that roof top, so theres a lot of competing needs plus the size and the d