To touch on that a little bit but its an area of tremendous interest to us and possibility as we look at redesigning our programs to reach a much deeper and greater audience so kathleen . Hello everyone im Kathleen Brian representing the Energy Efficiency programs from the department of the environment. So that was a great intro. Give me just a moment. Again, Kathleen Brian representing the department of the environment talking about our role in Energy Efficiency, the present and the future. So we know that our Energy Future will be in Renewable Energy but we also believe that Energy Efficiency matters is the first step, the first step and the journey to renewables must be an optimization of existing structures and building efficiency is the first step in that direction. San francisco environment has the experience and the Community Relationships that work we have run Energy Efficiency programs for for 15 years now and we expect to run these programs for the future even with ssca in pl
Utility bill savings every year with Quality Equipment approved that will last longer than conventional equipment and finally our programs help San Francisco residents live better and 81, 9th street a little drama there. This is a multiphase project. Last year if we did the largest project to date through bayren a boiler replacement project. The owners two other buildings shared similar success. We so want to do more. Unfortunately this is an unusual case in its comprehensiveness. We had a difficult time going deeper with multiple measures. Ive worked on these programs for for 8 years now and its frustrating not to be able to offer Cost Effective projects to all of our customers and this is because of the significant regulatory barriers. So all of these programs are funding through the rate payers and its the duty of the California Utilities Commission to ensure these funds are being spent wisely. Were subjected to pg es authority and that of the cpucs energy division. The result is mo
Potentially at the board . Are there any other approvals to allow us to be able to go and do this Feasibility Study . [multiple voices] i would have to yield to the City Attorney or to the city process because as a lafco representative, i dont represent the city on this step. I would yield to them to say what the process is. My understanding is this would go through the board process. Depending how many votes it gets, the mayors approval or not approval, that would be the [speaker not understood]. It would still have to come bag before any program is launched. [speaker not understood]. It would go through the board and the sfpuc would have to at that point both agree to do moving a Program Forward if we were to go down this model. But the Feasibility Study would give us an idea of what it would take to actually do that. Umhm. And so, then, in terms of the marin side, was there any sort of approval that has to take place on their part for us to be able to do the Feasibility Study . I wo
Im also an environmental scientist. Im frustrate that had ive lived here since 1999 and ive heard about cleanpowersf for i believe 10 years now and that we still dont see a Clean Energy Program in the city. So, im very glad to see the board looking at pursuing all means of moving this program forward. Clearly we need to offer power to San Francisco citizens that is cleaner than pg e at the same price or cheaper and marin has shown that thats imminently possible. However, San Franciscos program has long had a primacy on new generation and local generation. So, i think as we go forward, we just want to ensure that San Francisco has local control of the parameter of our program so that we can accrue the cobenefits like thousands of local jobs that we have seen from previous planning documents. Particularly in light of the legislation which president chiu just pushed forward in the previous item, as you are funding strategy for the next five years, a coherent plan for all workforce service
And so, then, in terms of the marin side, was there any sort of approval that has to take place on their part for us to be able to do the Feasibility Study . I would yield to the representative from marin to answer that part. Our board has not yet set policy for how we might expand to community the size of San Francisco. We do have policy and a process set for communities that are within 30 miles of our jurisdiction and have a Customer Base of 40,000 or less. And we have a couple of pending [speaker not understood] from surrounding communities including the county of napa, city of albany, [speaker not understood] for membership along those lines. That process is pretty well defined and clear, but our board has not yet set a process for what we are calling special consideration communities, which are communities that would be further than 30 miles away from us and have a Customer Base larger than 40,000. Our board knishates the discussions about what types of what type of process would