Francisco Public Utilities commission to order please. Hit it harder please. Mr. Secretary. Commissioner president vietor commissioner Vice President moran and commissioner caen are excused commissioner courtney commissioner kwon we have quorum. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Item 3 approval of the minutes of mark 8, 2016. Is there a motion to approve the minutes. So moved second all in favor, say i. I. Public comment on the minutes next item, please. Next is general Public Comment. General Public Comment mr. Da costa. Good afternoon. Good afternoon, commissioners the last night last time i was here i spoke about some very pressing issues and im going to speak on that particular issue that was raised than the general manager will be as part the of a letter sent to him regarding the issue im here to categorically state to the San Francisco Public Utilities commission this Commission Must do Due Diligence when it comes to quality quality of life issues so if we speak on some issue and
Determining whether or not this was going to be something that was workable in marin and whether it was something that the customers in marin were interested in. When we launched in may of 2010, we needed 2. 2 million to get off the ground. Today our finances are looking really good. Weve got a budget of 100 million budget and were in net position of 8 million. We are providing service to approximately 125,000 customers in our service area which includes the county of marin but the city of richmond. The city much richmond expressed interest in joining Marin Clean Energy a couple of years ago and we started service to richmond customers last summer, so about exactly one year ago. Were assuming 77 of the customers in our area, so in marin and richmond and the other portion of those customers have decided to opt out and stay with say that again. Were serving 77 of the people in our area. And the other 77 percent opted out and remain with pch services. We have reduced by 131 million towns.
We started up, we spent about a million and a half on our initial feasibility studies determining whether or not this was going to be something that was workable in marin and whether it was something that the customers in marin were interested in. When we launched in may of 2010, we needed 2. 2 million to get off the ground. Today our finances are looking really good. Weve got a budget of 100 million budget and were in net position of 8 million. We are providing service to approximately 125,000 customers in our service area which includes the county of marin but the city of richmond. The city much richmond expressed interest in joining Marin Clean Energy a couple of years ago and we started service to richmond customers last summer, so about exactly one year ago. Were assuming 77 of the customers in our area, so in marin and richmond and the other portion of those customers have decided to opt out and stay with say that again. Were serving 77 of the people in our area. And the other 77
Richmond. They all elected Council Member and they provide oversights of our rate and policies and customer noticing, and our Power Sources. We also have to report to the California Energy commission and to the cpuc regarding our Power Sources, and thats the cpc and to the cec. To the cpc, we provide information to them about how we implement our program and what our plan is for roll out and et cetera. So you probably have seen a slide or image like this before. This is a recap of how cca works. Its a hybrid approach between your traditional investment utilities like sacramentos or municipal utilities like p jenny. Theyre responsible for preparing the electricity and producing that power. P jenny do the delivery and the maintenance. They send the electricity over the wire and they do the billing and customer services. The customer has a seamless experience when they transfer to a cca bill. The customer pays that to p jenny and they give our portion to us. Customers in our service area
Information about those jobs and union labor which has been a hot top he can and if youre interested, we can pass that out. We have 20 fulltime employees at mce and we have venders and then weve been able to create jobs through energiy Energy Efficient program. Theyre creating and supporting jobs. So thats all about mce. And ill be happy to turn it to the next speaker. What has been your experience with shell. We partnered with shell when we first offered service and that was in 2010. We did an rfe for our Energy Renewable supply. At that time our board made a decision we wouldnt launch and get a minimum of 25 percent of Renewable Energy and shell did that. Our contract with them expired in 2017 which is the reason weve been on contracts for so many suppliers. To date, shell has been a good partner for us, but we understand that some people in our community dont because they provide electricity. You were partnering with pg and e. Whether youre with pg and e how green is the shell produ