The Incoming Biden Administration i thought we should begin with kind of the big picture that you lay out in the book when people hear the title they might say of course. I think many people may not fully understand. Taking the time to talk about this book and thank you to cspan for having me here to talk about it as well. That isnt a surprise for anyone but what has been happening over the last several decades is our economy has been highly concentrated and theres been consolidation on an ongoing basis in every sector of the economy so we hear a lot about but not only are we talking about food or agriculture in the industry you will have a monopoly problem and im also talking about the duopoly is there are harms that flow from this that i want to highlight to help them understand what it means for their everyday life and how it affects them. As you write about, it is the Cable Service and industries. Can you talk about how we got to this point you sort of explain in the book that ther
Looking at doing a change to the program, youre investigating to do work in which shell buys the hydro power. Im guessing thats going to impact the potential or potential not of rate setting next week. Or is that something youre going to have answered to the satisfaction of the commissioners at the sfpuc . I dont expect that we will have any kind of confirmation from shell about specific resources by then. What i can say is that our goal is to have a portfolio with shell where every resource from which they purchase power is Greenhouse Gas free, california produced, and with unionized maintenance. Okay, thanks. So, if you can walk us through the renewable character in city. We had at the last discussion policy committee, we talked about recs and what that does or doesnt do to some of the other goals and the jobs piece, if you can move us forward with that. Yes. And just quickly, there are sort of three aspects to this Program Design that weve been trying to balance in response to conce
Know where is it the stuff that really excited us sitting here today. And thinking back, i guess one of the big reveals youre looking at doing a change to the program, youre investigating to do work in which shell buys the hydro power. Im guessing thats going to impact the potential or potential not of rate setting next week. Or is that something youre going to have answered to the satisfaction of the commissioners at the sfpuc . I dont expect that we will have any kind of confirmation from shell about specific resources by then. What i can say is that our goal is to have a portfolio with shell where every resource from which they purchase power is Greenhouse Gas free, california produced, and with unionized maintenance. Okay, thanks. So, if you can walk us through the renewable character in city. We had at the last discussion policy committee, we talked about recs and what that does or doesnt do to some of the other goals and the jobs piece, if you can move us forward with that. Yes.
Of the big reveals youre looking at doing a change to the program, youre investigating to do work in which shell buys the hydro power. Im guessing thats going to impact the potential or potential not of rate setting next week. Or is that something youre going to have answered to the satisfaction of the commissioners at the sfpuc . I dont expect that we will have any kind of confirmation from shell about specific resources by then. What i can say is that our goal is to have a portfolio with shell where every resource from which they purchase power is Greenhouse Gas free, california produced, and with unionized maintenance. Okay, thanks. So, if you can walk us through the renewable character in city. We had at the last discussion policy committee, we talked about recs and what that does or doesnt do to some of the other goals and the jobs piece, if you can move us forward with that. Yes. And just quickly, there are sort of three aspects to this Program Design that weve been trying to bal
Commission, we look to this program to accomplish a lot of goals. Maybe the frame your presentation to where what is the status of certain of the goals. We wanted a green Power Purchasing Program and we wanted this program because of the ideas around Greenhouse Gas Emission Reductions to the citys Greenhouse Gas Emission Reduction goals and the 100 Renewable Energy goals that by the city and county and that were charged with giving life to. But really what it was about was the local generation. So, if you can tell us where its at because i know its gone up and down. What is the status of incity Renewable Generation and what is the status of jobs . Okay. That would be real helpful i think to move us forward because were going to go all over when really we want to know where is it the stuff that really excited us sitting here today. And thinking back, i guess one of the big reveals youre looking at doing a change to the program, youre investigating to do work in which shell buys the hydr