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Pg es 100 green option we need not to focus so much on purchasing. I think what we should do is change the 100 2020 goal to locally produced energy from facilities beyond that date. Thank you. Next speaker please. Hello commissioners. My name is paul congressmanus and part of. Bon hundred solar. There is a way to get to one heard 100 and ignored in this country by the media so you might not have heard of it. Its a solar payment policy. It requires pg e to pay 54 cents kilowatt hour to homeowners that put panels on their roo. I know a hundred people in this town that are generating surplus and pg e is basically stealing this Surplus Energy at the rate pg e is paying, so its simply a policy that the mayor can institute under executive powers, and get around pg e that way. In germany its created 400,000 new jobs. Its created 4 billion in cash flow through the economy and making the German Economy the strongest in europe and its the it basically is a policy that pays the homeowners so it m
Meeting of the local Agency Formation commission. My name is david campos and i am the chair of the commission. We are joined by the clerk linda wong and i want to thank the San Francisco gtv staff for the coverage of this meeting. Madam clerk, if you can please call item number two, roll call. Supervisor avalos, absent. Supervisor olague. Here. Supervisor im sorry, commissioner schmeltzer. Here. Commissioner mar. Commissioner pimentel absent. Chairperson campos. Present. Mr. Chair, there is a quorum. Item two approval from the minutes from the regular meeting and november 30 joint meeting with the san frcisco Public Utilities commission. Great. Before we take action on this item i would like to open it up for Public Comment. If there is any member of the public that would like to speak on item number two please come forward. Seeing none Public Comment is closed. Colleagues this is an action item. Can we have a motion to approve the minutes . We have a motion for commissioner schmeltze
With the San Francisco Public Utilities commission. Great. Before we take action on this item i would like to open it up for Public Comment. If there is any member of the public that would like to speak on item number two please come forward. Seeing none Public Comment is closed. Colleagues this is an action item. Can we have a motion to approve the minutes . We have a motion for commissioner schmeltzer. Second by commissioner olague. If we can take that without objection. Madam clerk you can call item three. Item three is review of the Renewable Energy task force. We will have fried. Im going to turn it over to danielle and give a presentation of the report and we are available for questions after that. Great. Thank you. Thanks jason. I will return through this fairly quickly, especially the background which you are all familiar with, but if you questions please stop me. Awz know San Francisco has a long history of Climate Action and a lot of the work that we have done over the last c
Hundred people in this town that are generating surplus and pg e is basically stealing this Surplus Energy at the rate pg e is paying, so its simply a policy that the mayor can institute under executive powers, and get around pg e that way. In germany its created 400,000 new jobs. Its created 4 billion in cash flow through the economy and making the German Economy the strongest in europe and its the it basically is a policy that pays the homeowners so it makes investing in solar attractive to homeowners. Right now its not attractive to put a hundred solar panels on your roof, but under this policy germany has made tremendous advances. There is one country in the world that is 100 solar power as of last month. Cca cannot possibly do what they need done. The word you can boil this whole argument down to one question, one word and that is inevitability. We are running out of the oil. We are drowning in our own waste. We need to stop burning oil and the way you could do it is putting a cou