launch is 5 percent of the potential customer base in terms of gig watt hours used up. that means this is a launch that still has 80 percent of the whole usage of the city that has to be dealt w with. we are not going to have a program if it s only going to work with that power, we are not going to have a program if those people aren t there to purchase that power. if those 80 percent don t have competitive prices there is not going to be any build out to serve that base. even though we spend a lot of time talking about the initial 5 percent, the real concern is 80 percent is because that s where the real job, the real benefit is from the potential customers. that s why the focus around having a very clear plan. in the letter that i sent to you all, we advocates have put together a set of criteria that we feel that build out plan must meet if it s going to be a good basis for decision making and i want to focus on that because those are the kind of criteria, that build out pl
purchase this locally generated or this local energy program. thank you so much. thank you. national next speaker please. hello, i m david mccord. a chair of the club of the san francisco base chapter of energy and climate committee and honored to speak with you today. we want clean power of s f to succeed that creates local jobs. among other cc a s across the country nearly all rates are below the standard rate of the local utility. among the few that are higher, modest premiums are significantly below staff s recommended rate, these include build out of local renewable and energy efficiency services by revenue. we are asking clean power sf to go beyond this. with the results of the customer survey, we believe it is essential. san francisco has an advantage. you already have authority to issue h revenue bonds for just this purpose. these bonds issued at a level which you can support will start signature build out and the creation of jobs. we recommend that you begin this
percent. i was talking with my students just this morning about that. in other, in the current levels of carbon dioxide are currently above the scenarios that scientist concluded about a decade ago. i hope we go with this in a robust speed. it will front load jobs and support. nor in order for that to happen the rates need to be lower. the reallocation of funds to keep those rates as low as possible to get the demand there and the jobs going and keep the community strong. i also really support the strong tariffs that i was hearing discussed that was what pushed germany and other european countries to have some of the largest renewable and once those tariffs are kicked in and will help move up much faster. another thing you will look at is kind of see where the subsidies remain to the economy and see if there is someway to manipulate the rates here in san francisco so perhaps some of the subsidies that are currently going to carbon get reallocated and redirected to support ren
must meet if it s going to be a good basis for decision making and i want to focus on that because those are the kind of criteria, that build out plan has to be able to talk about the amount of investment that takes place. the return on that investment, the amount of jobs, all those returns, all those pieces have to be part of a development plan or a business plan to make it really a legitimate basis for choice. we all know that nobody wants to go into a clear power sf without having a lot of confidence that we will have a successful program that has very little risk. so do i have another minute? is that what that bell meant? just to wrap up that is the focus and we also know with coming up with that kind of a business plan, is not a back of the envelope kind of operation. we have been meeting and talking for two years about what would have to be in such a plan and in the last year there has been a plan to put together that infrastructure of that plan. the resource plan is ve
for tonight s meeting. well julie for the past 2- 1/2 hours people have been sounding out about this. many of the people here want to remain vacant. i urge you to reject because it fails to meet the requires of sea crop. reporter: those opposed to uc berkeley s plant far outnumber those with occupy the farm. it s our time to put our foot down and say no, this should all be promoted for agriculture. there has never been farming there, there has tháefr been farming there. there can t be farming there in the future. reporter: it is at the opposite end of the gill track where the university conducts agricultural research and where occupy protesters plantedded crops during their take over in april. john mogeloff says the project is a good use of this space. it s an empty parcel and here we have a community that has said what they want. reporter: the development project would boost the city s tax revenue. one of the thing that is the city council has to look at i