Remember your promise to never leave or forsake us. Finding power in your presence, give our senators the ability to discover solutions to the problems that confront our nation and world. May they strive to make a positive difference for all americans, permitting your light to illumine the way. Lord, provide our legislators with a new vision of faith and a fresh venture of hope as they seek creative ways to help a troubled world. We pray in your powerful name. Amen. The president pro tempore please join me in the pledge of allegiance to the flag. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america, and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Mr. Grassley madam president . The presiding officer the senator from iowa is recognized. Mr. Grassley i would ask permission to speak for one minute in morning business. The presiding officer without objection. Mr. Grassley this month is iowa history month, and for iowa
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Within the commission and across our sister agencies allowed us to have a more developed view of what it means to focus on lowincome and disadvantaged communities. I think its an iterative process for the tool. Its got value but not perfect. Commissioner that was interesting. Thank you, commissioner, for that. As our remarks were in line with yours the challenge of getting off natural gas in the building sector. For us in local government sometimes theres structural barriers in terms of regulatory definitions as well as barriers for using public good charge money. So theres historic challenges. Some sit with you and your authority and some are with the California Public utilities commission. I wonder if you can give us an insight as to how the state agencies talk to one another. Talked a lot about the importance of listening to local government. Its a triangulation sometimes and i feel stuck sometimes in that triangle. Im wondering if you can explain how the Commission Works on that an
The clerk the next it em is a presentation on San Franciscos Community Choice Aggregation Program clean power sf. And Jessie Denver Program Manager will be speaking on behalf of the director and combine it with item 7e with the energy distributed Energy Resources Program Including zero Emission Vehicles. Hello. Great. Okay. So the citys Energy Program aligns with the states vision and action to help shape the Energy Resources future. The citys Energy Program not only works on Energy Efficiency and renewables like youve heard tonight, but also in collaboration with our colleagues at the sf puc works on renewables and also Energy Storage and zero Emission Vehicles and market transformation. The focus of the majority will be on zero emissions vehicles. My director is sick with the flu so he gave me permission to give you highlights he also wanted know relay to you and would be happy to come back and give you a full update on clean power sf. San francisco is loading on the use of the power
Great. Okay. So the citys Energy Program aligns with the states vision and action to help shape the Energy Resources future. The citys Energy Program not only works on Energy Efficiency and renewables like youve heard tonight, but also in collaboration with our colleagues at the sf puc works on renewables and also Energy Storage and zero Emission Vehicles and market transformation. The focus of the majority will be on zero emissions vehicles. My director is sick with the flu so he gave me permission to give you highlights he also wanted know relay to you and would be happy to come back and give you a full update on clean power sf. San francisco is loading on the use of the power grid. Grid is 44 renewable with the goal of getting to 50 renewable by 2020 and 100 renewable by 2030. The department of the environment and energy team also works on developing reach codes or commissioner mcallister called them stretch codes. For example, with renewables we passed a better roof ordinance. That