assembly member tinge s office and that is another area we re going to potentially see changes at the state-level that we need to keep our eyes on that could have a negative impact on ccas and how we can go out and market and advertise programs that we re trying to do that are good, clean, green program and because someone is trying to monkey with the definitions, all of a sudden solar no longer becomes a green product somehow. so to keep in the back of our mind as we move forward how these could potentially impact us later on. thank you. thank you. good afternoon, commissioners. eric brooks, san francisco green party local grassroots organization. our city and co-coordinator of san francisco - san francisco clean energy advocates. first i want to just touch on what commissioner vietor and jason just spoke about and that is that there are impacts to clean power sf. to the rate changes. because as to amplify what director freidsaid, if we offer a much cleaner project p
california puc will compress pg&e s four-tiered residential rate structure into two tiers over next few years. this will increase the total cost of electricity to low-usage customers, and it will reduce the cost to high-usage customers. it won t really have an impact on clean power sf and the rates- the not to exceed rates that you adopted. the new rate structure that has been adopted by the california puc for pg&e, redistributes costs between transmission and distribution functions, from high-usage tiers to the lower-usage tiers. the clean power sf program competes with pg&e s generation component of the rate, not the transmission and distribution component. so that generation rate was flattened several years ago for residential customers, which means that these customers pay the same rate for generation, regardless of how much they use. so the rate compression that the california puc adopted affects transmission and distribution costs, not generation, and the clean power sf
twice. so we do need this grant program and hopefully it i mean i m not even sure that this is going to help my business actually. it s right on folsom and 17th. hopefully it will, and hopefully a long-term solution can be found, like sammy said. increasing the pipe size along folsom street, particularly when there are more residents in the mission. there s new buildings going up all the time and i don t really see any increase in the sewer system capacity that we so desperately need. so i m here to reiterate, thanks for the grant money and hopefully a permanent solution can be found. thanks. thank you. no further comments from the public, any further comments? yes. i would like to request i mean, i have been on this commission for seven years now and i have heard a lot of flooding stories about 17th and folsom. i know there has been work and all kinds of possibilities looked at and i have followed the affordable housing and what has happened within the city family to
please stand by. local agency formation commission good afternoon and welcome to the special joint committee meeting of the san francisco public utilities commission. i just created a new word. my name is john avalos, the chair of the lafco. we are going to do our roll call right now. i will introduce the clerk for lafco and the president of the public utilities commission which is the clerk of puc and they will do their roll call as well. our clerk for lafco is lisa. clerk, please call the roll. commissioner avalos, present, breed, present, campos, present, commissioner crews, present, mar, not present, lindo, present. we have a quorum. public utilities commission roll call. president king, courtney, commissioner moran and commissioner quan. we have a quorum. city clerk: please silence all cell phones and any devices. supervisor john avalos: we are being broadcast by sf govtv staff. item no. 3 opening remarks and discussions of expectations for the join
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