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It will be forwarded to the members and included as part of the official file. Madam clerk, that concludes my announcements. Thank you very much madam clerk. Can you please call item number two. Item number two, approval of lafco minutes from september 18, 2020, regular meeting. Those who wish to provide Public Comment should call the number on your screen, meeting id1463547117. If you have not already done so, please dial star 3 to line up to speak. Is there anyone in line waiting to speak on this item . Madam chair, there are no callers in the queue. Seeing that, Public Comment is now closed on item number two. I would like to make a motion to approve the lafco minutes for the regular meeting. Can i have a second please. Second. Roll call vote please. Item number two, vice chair pollock. Aye. Commissioner haney. Aye. Commissioner mar. Aye. Chairperson fewer. Aye. There are four ayes. Thank you very much. Madam clerk, can you please call item number three. Community choice aggregation activities report. A, enrollment and service statistics, b, update on delinquency and bill assistance for low income customers. C, grant proposal to demonstrate a Virtual Power Plant. D, power charge indifference adjustment. Please wait until the system indicates you have been unmuted to begin your comments. Thank you very much. Today we have barbara hale from sfpuc. The floor is yours. Thank you very much. Good morning commissioners, barbara hale presenting to you today. I like to move to slide two please, where were going to give a quick overview of the agenda that were going to cover today. You can see as the Commission Secretary announced the items. Lets move into enrollment and service statistics. Slide four please. At complete Community Wide enrollment, cleanpowersf now has a little over 409,000 customer accounts. Since launch, 3. 9 percent of those customer accounts enrolled have opted out of the program. That is still a 96 retention rate, so were happy with that. Despite the challenges presented by covid, the upgrade rate has remained steady at 2 . Finally, the receipt recent june 2020 enrollment is completed with a 1. 2 opt out rate, just for that individual enrollment. That gives you a sense of how the program is doing. Slide five please. I like to move on to talk about delinquent sit and bill assistance for customers. Its a tough time for san franciscan s. We reported that the sfpuc adopted a bill credit for qualifying customers enrolled in the california alternative rates for energy and family electricity rate assistance program. Thats a state program and federal program. These are bill assistance programs. Weve adopted a bill credit for qualifying customers enrolled in these programs by the end of september. The proposed bill credit would cover an average electricity bill for a care or fera can you tells customer for one month. Its being applied this month, october. It provides Economic Relief for these customers and an opportunity for us to promote enrollment in care and fera discount programs. Were excited about that because that provides qualifying customers with ongoing assistance, not just one time. Its at least a 20 discount on their energy bills. We taken this as a marketing moment, a leveraging moment, to make sure that if people qualify, they get themselves enrolled. Slide seven please. At the last meeting, commissioner fewer, you asked for more information regarding account delink went sit by supervisor district. What you see on this slide summarizes delinquency data business supervisor district. We did a heat map where you can see the delinquencies are the highest in red and gradients down to green where theyre lowest. I dont think were seeing that slide in front of us. That is slide seven and i believe theyre managing the slides. Its showing on the sf tv screen. Im not sure why youre not seeing it. Were seeing a different slide. Im asking for slide seven please. There. Im not managing the slide presentment. So now youre seeing the heat map presentation that i just mentioned. Maybe we want to stay on that slide for a moment so you can absorb the content. Sure. Just for folks who are listening in, thats the slide were looking at or showing, so is that correct in supervisor haneys district there. Thats what were seeing, 51 for folks that are overdue on paying their bills up to 30 days. For 60 days, it drops down to 16 . Then for district six, were showing it drops down to 10 . So understand that what were seeing here is an aging process, right . You can be delinquent for 30 days but then cure it so you dont show it on the 60 day column here. Thats why the percentage delinquent dropped overtime. You can see that we do a delinquent sit rate around 6 and as presented on this slide, that represents about a 2 million under collection for the program. The average delinquency of 101. Thank you commissioner fewer for folks who arent able to see the screen. I appreciate that reminder. Thank you, please proceed. Theres been an increase in enrollment in the care and fera Program Within our cleanpowersf customer base. So prior to shelterinplace for covid19, which occurred in march, march 17th. We all remember that date. We had about 38,000 enrollments. Thats about 10 of active cleanpowersf customer accounts. As of the end of september, our preliminary numbers show that our enrollment in those two bill assistance programs has increased to 50,660. That represents a 30 increase in enrollment in these programs since march. Thats now representing about a 13 total of our customer accounts being enrolled in these programs. Were continuing to work with this data and we will provide Financial Results with our effort to get more folks enrolled at the november lafco meeting or i believe thats your next meeting. So if we could move to slide nine then. Im happy to share that since the last lafco meeting, our sfpuc staff collaborate with the department of environment to submit a grant. This is an application to the u. S. Department of energy to develop a pilot, Virtual Power Plant at Affordable Housing buildings that our customers of cleanpowersf. Slide ten please. The u. S. Department of energy grant opportunity is offering 1 million grant with total funding of 10 million available to Fund Projects that have the potential to significantly reduce energy and u. S. Commercial or multifamily buildings. The department of energy was looking for projects that could demonstrate end use demand flexibility to improve power grid efficiencies and generate and dissimilate data on building technologies. The funding is available for up to three years and Grant Applications were due september 28th. Slide 11 please. The Grant Application we submitted would leverage hot water heat pumps and other integrated demand side measures across ten tenderloin neighborhoods, multiunit properties. So were focusing on the multiunit aspect of the department of energys offerings. This new equipment would convert Natural Gas Usage to electricity usage. Were hoping to do some decarbonization and well also then allow the building managers to flexible respond to hourly price signals. To establish the price signals, the project team will develop a tool to determine the value of the electricity demand flex blth on buildings based on cleanpowersf avoided Energy Procurement cost. Under the grant proposal, we will recruit flexible demand aggregator, a third party capable of optimizing Building Energy demands and response to hourly signals. So the idea here is that a building could be dispatched, turned on and off. The Energy Consumption would increase and decrease based on pricing in the market, much like we procure energy in the market. We would be procuring demand reduction. So, lets move to slide 12 please. So through this Grant Application, were trying to demonstrate the ability to decarbonize domestic hot Water Systems and verify the financial benefits of building electrification. Were proposing to create an avoided cost tool to determine the value of electricity demand flexibility. Well then use the avoided cost values to send a price signal to the Buildings Energy manager to change the electricity usage in response to wholesale cost of Electricity Supply to provide that flexibility, the project would integrate distributed Energy Resources from multifamily buildings portfolios to a Virtual Power Plant and analyze Data Collected from the operation of those resources to validate the Virtual Power Plants performance. So ultimately this project will assess the viability of cost pricing to promote distributed Energy Resources as a substitute for supply side resources. Slide 13 please. Here is the projected, the projects expected schedule. Were expecting to hear back from the department of energy on the application in january of 2021. Assuming we are awarded a grant, we anticipate contract negotiations and executions during the First Quarter of 2021 and then we move on to phase one of the project, commencing in the Second Quarter of 2021. During this Market Assessment and Technology Installation phase, we will identify existing Tenderloin Neighborhood Development corporation sites with appropriate Energy Aspects to include in the program. We will install heat pumps, measure and verify the Greenhouse Gas savings in the parenting buildings, created the avoided cost tool i talked about and procure the flexibility demand aggregator. Phase two, which will focus on the Program Implementation is expected to commence in 2022 and run through 2023. This work will include calculation of the demand flexibility savings for all the buildings, create a pool of nonparticipant comparison groups, so we have something to benchmark against, set up and manage automated meter infrastructure to facilitate the data transfer, and calculate our ongoing demand flexibility savings and the payment for ongoing demand flexibility. Finally in phase three, occurring in the First Quarter of 2024, well focus on project analysis andy sim and desimulation of results and findings. Now power charge and difference adjustments. Are there any questions about the Virtual Power Plant . Any comments or questions from my colleagues . Seeing no one in the queue, please proceed. Thank you, thank you. So shifting gears. At the last meeting, excuse me, our director mike hines, Deputy Director for cleanpowersf presented an overview and updated the commission on the power charge indifference adjustment. This is the exit fee all of our customers pay. We have a couple updates for you this week. Slide 15 please. First, i want to recognize that at the last meeting, a group of administrators have coordinated to prepare a letter for elected officials representing their communities. To voice the concern about the pcia to the california puc commissioners regarding the pcia price volatility and high costs and how theyre harming all electricity customers in the state, i want to thank Lafco Commissioners for your support of this letter, which was sent to the california puc on september 24th and featured the signatures of 99 elected officials representing energy programs. Those signatures included mayor london breed and all 11 members of the San Francisco board of supervisors. They asked them to implement common sense fixes to increase transparency by adopting new rules to allocate resources to retail sellers whose customers pay for them and encourage better management of utilities portfolios and give consumers more information about what the fees pay for. So thank you very much for your support for that letter. Finally, if well move to slide 16 please. On september 28, pg e filed an application seeking to recover a 252 million, in the indifference adjustment. Pg e is proposing to collect this money over a 12 month period, starting in 2021. If that request is approved by the california p. U. C. , then the pcia is expected to rise by a total of 1 cent per kilo watt hour in 2021. Were working with other Community Choice programs to request a longer collection period of 36 months to reduce the impact on rate payers in 2021. While this request will not address the underlying causes of the problem with the pcia, those issues will need to be addressed through new rules requiring better management of the electrical corporation, the portfolio. It will provide important near term rate relief to cleanpowersf and other Community Choice aggregation customers. That could have a Significant Impact on program participation. With that, i think thats my final slide if you will advance. Ill be happy to take any questions. Thank you ms. Hale. Any questions or comments from my colleagues at all . Seeing none, lets open this up for Public Comment please. Okay, thank you madam chair. Members of the public who wish to speak on this item press star 3 now to line up to speak. A system prompt will indicate that you raised your hand. Please wait until you have been unmuted and then you can begin your comments. Operations, is there anyone in line to provide Public Comment on this item . Madam chair yes madam chair how many people are in the queue . We currently have two people in line. Okay. I see that the advocates are asking to extend Public Comments to three minutes for all items. Since we have on average two speakers for Public Comment on each item, i think i will grant that today. So please set the time for three minutes for each public speaker and we can start Public Comment now on item number three only. Thank you. Okay. Thank you madam chair. Can you send the first caller through please. Hello commissioners, can you hear me . Yes, we can. Okay, good. Eric brooks, california for Energy Choice and San Francisco clean energy advocate. On the pcia fee, i mean its great that were asking for an extension on how long thats to be paid off, but really we got to get more the cities that are Community Choice cities need to go at war with the California Public utilities on this. If we dont, then theyre going to keep doing this to us until our Community Choice programs are dead. So we got to really declare war and cities need to get organized and do something about this so that it cant continue. This charge is unnecessary. Its been in place for decades and its time to phase it out completely. Very importantly, on the grant proposal from the federal government, i think that sounds like its going to be. Worthy program and its very useful. It will give us great data, but i also think its really important that we not get trap in the verbiage that the federal government is giving us that this is a Virtual Power Plant demonstration. A Virtual Power Plant, when advocates talk about Virtual Power Plants, what were talking about is building renewable, demand response, efficiency, and other things as described in the grant proposal so that together all these things in an entire region completely fulfill the electricity needs of the community in such that they dont need fossil fuel power plants anymore. Its like you have a 24 hour power plant on seven days a week. Thats a Virtual Power Plant. I want to make sure we dont get off on the wrong foot with this presentation, on this worthy grant proposal and call that a Virtual Power Plant when it isnt one. So i just want to make sure to put that clarification forward. Those are my comments. Thank you. Thank you for your comments. Can you please put the next caller through. Thank you very much. [inaudible] i want to thank you for the p