charlton mcilwain. he is also a professor at the steinhardt school. he is also the founder of the center for critical race and digital studies and co-author to appeal how candidates in u.s. political campaign. it is the winner of the 2012 a psa award. also with us, is e david ellington the executive chairman of the silicon valley block chain society. he is a global member driven ecosystem supporting block chain and crypto currency. the latest projects across the industry and for social impact, the members are active investors primarily in technology, collectively represent more than 1.5 trillion in investment capital. the motto of this is fun the revolution. i love that. we are celebrating a book tonight that is very compelling story, a very important story, lesser-known intech history but yet really looking at people who have been working toward social justice inside the tech industry, the book is called black software , the internet, from the afro net to black lives matter
The bay. Cool this afternoon. Temperatures starting off mainly in the 50s here. A little bit of a breeze here. A couple of systems working their way in from the pacific northwest. You can see that cloud cover drifting across. Its cool to see that Front Holding together, produced some light rain and another system is coming in. Fog gets chewed up. 51 in lake port. There are a few temperatures running about 10 degrees cooler than others. There is a roaring breeze, sfo, half moon bay. A series of systems continue to work their way. A stronger one on the way. 60s, 70s, upper 70s, 80s. We have an issue in San Francisco, sal . Yes, we do, steve. Im looking here to see if there is something new that will surprise me but there is a new issue eastbound at fort. A deadly crash happened about 4 00. We do have some lanes blocked here eastbound 80. Event 80 at 4th and well keep an eye for you. Around the bay, 80, the solano commute, you can see traffic is moving well, as you drive through vallejo.
To avoid shifting costs to nonparticipants which would make it difficult for a program like cleanpowersf to compete against it. So, trying to preserve those options. As i say, thats all activity ongoing at the california puc. And then of course there is some legislative activity picking up. We have new legislate ~. We have a bill introduced by Assembly Member bradford ab [speaker not understood] that were keeping an aye on and a bill introduced by Assembly Member ammiano, ab [speaker not understood]. We dont think theyre meaningful so im not going to get into that. They are on our watch list so we encourage you to keep an eye on them as well. Thank you. If you could give us an example of what 20 megawatt would be serving the community. So, for example, there are some large warehouses in the sorry, in the bayview Hunters Point area. We thought solar there would be less than 20 megawatts greater than 1 megawatt. Those would be system that would be considered distributed under the rules.
Cost of some of these things. We do know that street lights continue to be a big challenge for our city. So, im hoping we can come up with a solution to address the capital issues as well as, you know, the energy costs associated with them. So, one of the frustrations that we have is the hetchy provides opportunities to a lot of great program. And i believe street lights is definitely one of them. And, so, you know, in solving our problem with hetchy, we met with supervisors and kind of came up with some of the plans that were working on. And, so, but we havent had a chance to actually talk and negotiate what the deal was. And, so, with the mayors office, we have been having conversations about raising general fund rates. Weve been talking about putting street lights in the next bond. Weve been working with pg e and weve actually reduced the costs. We are looking at alternative projects for mountain tunnel. So, on all fronts were on this. So, i would love to come back when we have more
And then of course there is some legislative activity picking up. We have new legislate ~. We have a bill introduced by Assembly Member bradford ab [speaker not understood] that were keeping an aye on and a bill introduced by Assembly Member ammiano, ab [speaker not understood]. We dont think theyre meaningful so im not going to get into that. They are on our watch list so we encourage you to keep an eye on them as well. Thank you. If you could give us an example of what 20 megawatt would be serving the community. So, for example, there are some large warehouses in the sorry, in the bayview Hunters Point area. We thought solar there would be less than 20 megawatts greater than 1 megawatt. Those would be system that would be considered distributed under the rules. Theyd be local. They could be located and what qualifies as a Disadvantaged Community here in San Francisco. So, thats an example. Great, thank you. And then whats the current status of our shell contracts . So, the shell cont