Community Power Coalition · 2/2/2018  · Pittsburg, Calpine & AnswerNet. •Actively interviewing and hiring for these 10-12 new positions. •Candidates mostly all from surrounding

Community Power Coalition1st 2018 meeting February, 2018

MCE Solar One is now online!

Updates:

Community Development• Kensington Fire District &

Police Protection District go Deep Green!

• New Deep Green Challenge: Living Lightly, presented by Gabrielle Lichtenstein

• Next round of Contra Costa CLAG meetings

• Pittsburg Call Center

Procurement• Feed-in Tariff (FIT) Plus

• MCE Solar One now online! April ribbon cutting

• CCA Supplier Diversity Symposium

Customer Programs• Energize Richmond: Multifamily Energy Efficiency

Policy Updates• Draft Resolution E-4907

• Integrated Resource Plan (IRP)

• Power Charge Indifference Adjustment (PCIA)

• Trump’s new solar tariff

Other• MCE Job openings

• 2017 Community Power Survey

Other member updates or future agenda items?

Agenda

Kensington Goes Green!

Thank you Kensington Greens!

www.kensington-green.org

Kensington Police Protection

and Community Services

District opted up on 11/16!

Agenda, page 11-12 www.kppcsd.org/files/a227bfb3b/2017-11-16-Approved-Minutes.pdf

Kensington Fire Protection

District opted up on 1/10!

Agenda, page 32-35: www.kensingtonfire.org/downloads/bodpacket0118.pdf

#LivingLightly

Eligibility: Teams with 15+

members in Deep Green

Team sets goals based on

the size of their community

Current 100% customers

can be counted

Tracking bars on Living

Lightly webpage to

monitor progress

www.mcecleanenergy.org/livinglightly

Community Leader

Advisory Groups

CLAGs

Groups consisting of community leaders

identified by city & town staff and local

grassroots advocates

• 3 CLAGs in Contra Costa County

• 3 meetings each with different asks (9 total)

– 1st: Informational, December

– 2nd: Update, February

– 3rd: Enrollment Feedback, April

Please promote!www.mceCleanEnergy.org/CLAG

Please promote!

mceCleanEnergy.org/CLAG

Oakley Council Chambers

3231 Main St.

Wednesday, Feb 21st, 7 pm

Hacienda, La Sala Building

2100 Donald Drive, Moraga

Thursday Feb 22nd, 7 pm

Pinole City Hall:Community Rm

2131 Pear St

Tuesday, Feb 27th , 7 pm

• Partnered with Future Build East

County, Rubicon, City of

Pittsburg, Calpine & AnswerNet.

• Actively interviewing and hiring

for these 10-12 new positions.

• Candidates mostly all from

surrounding communities.

• Three FutureBuild graduates

submitted resumes. Full time

offers extended to two.

• Training began in late

December for all new agents.

Pittsburg

Call Center

Expanded FITThe MCE Board has approved expanding the

existing FIT program. The 20-year standard offer

remains the same, but it now has:

• 50% local hire and prevailing wage

requirements

• Added 10MW of capacity

• Price per mega-watt hour will drop $5 with

every 2MW of new capacity

–Condition 8: $85/MWh

–Condition 9: $80/MWh

–Condition 10: $75/MWh

–Condition 11: $70/MWh

–Condition 12: $65/MWh

FIT PlusThe MCE Board also approved a new FIT offering to help promote local development of mid-sized projects:

FIT Plus (Working title):• For projects 1-5 MW in MCE service area• Will need to meet all requirements to be scheduled into

the California Independent System Operator (CAISO)• 50% local hire and Project Labor Agreement (PLA)

requirements• Added 20MW of capacity• Condition 1 will start at $80/MWH• Price per mega-watt hour will drop $5 with every 5MW of

capacity.

– Condition 1: $80– Condition 2: $75– Condition 3: $70– Condition 4: $65

Schedule/Tariff www.mcecleanenergy.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/06_Att_A_FIT-Plus_Schedule_Final.pdf

Started churning 10.5 MW of

100% local, 100% clean

energy into the grid in

December 2017!

Come celebrate with us at

our ribbon cutting

ceremony in mid-April.

Date/time TBD.

Please share: www.facebook.com/mceCleanEnergy/videos/10156127422973281/

MCE Solar One

now online!

CCA Supplier Diversity Symposium

Press Release:

www.mcecleanenergy.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/CalCCA-Diversity-Symposium-Press-Release-FINAL.pdf

Speakers included: Senator Lara,

Senator Skinner, Commissioner Peterman Comm’r RechtschaffenFormer Comm’r SimonRichmondBuildFutureBuildIBEW 302

All Powerpoints: www.mcecleanenergy.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/CCA-Supplier-Diversity-Presentations-.pdf

Multifamily properties are eligible to receive layered cash incentives to install higher energy efficiency appliances. Through Energize Richmond, multifamily properties are eligible to receive cash incentives of up to $25,000 for market rate properties and $35,000 for affordable housing, in addition to MCE’s rebates.

Bakari Kafele owns a 4-unit property in Richmond. An MCE site assessment revealed many energy savings opportunities but unfortunately were outside of his budget. Thanks to Energize Richmond and MCE, Bakari received a total of $2,138 in rebates and installed condensing tankless water heaters and Energy Star refrigerators.

Bakari and his tenants will save ~$1,664 on utility bills annually. This partnership helped him generate significant energy and gas savings, as well as improve the quality of living for his residents.

MCE & City of Richmond:

Energize Richmond

Multifamily

Opposition

to E-4907

Public Comment:

https://ia.cpuc.ca.

gov/requesttocom

ment/

Center for Climate Protection Press conference:Feb 8th, 8:30 - 9:20 am

CPUC Courtyard -- 505 Van Ness Ave, San Francisco

Speaker's line up:

• Woody Hastings, Center for Climate Protection

• Efren Carrillo, Former Sonoma County Sup; Founding SCP Director

• Gabriel Quinto, Mayor of El Cerrito; former MCE Director

• Jan Pepper, Los Altos Councilmember; PCE CEO

• Dave Pine, San Mateo County Supervisor; PCE Board Chair

• Steve McShane, Salinas Councilmember; Vice Chair of MBCP Policy Board

• Lindsey Horvath, West Hollywood Councilmember; LACCE Director

• Linda Parks, Ventura County Supervisor; LACCE Director

Inland Empire Citizens Action

CommitteeAssociate Groups:

Chaffey Republican Women’s Federated

Mountainview Republicans

Redlands Tea Party Patriots

Chino Tea Party

Banning-Beaumont, Cherry Valley Tea Party

Freedom Tea Party Patriots

Redlands Town Hall

High Desert Tea Party

Norco-Corona-Eastvale Tea Party

Foothill Tax Payers Association

Victor Valley Freedom Campaign

Support for E-4907

Integrated Resource Plan

(IRP)

No scheduled voting date

200+ page PD:

http://docs.cpuc.ca.gov/

PublishedDocs/Efile/G000/

M201/K974/201974336.PDF

On 12/29/17, the CPUC released a PD on IRP Planning proceeding.

CCA concerns:

• The Commission assumes that it has broad oversight over CCA procurement and planning activities through the IRP.

• SB 350 specifically directs the CPUC to certify CCA IRPs, just like how it certifies CCA implementation plans.

• While CCAs understand the CPUC is concerned about achieving California’s environmental policy goals, the CPUC should coordinate and collaborate with CCA Boards instead of assuming general procurement oversight authority.

• MCE is working with CalCCA to file comments and will be meeting with Commissioners' offices in the next few weeks to try to find a solution.

Power Charge

Indifference

Adjustment

• Track 1: General

settlement

principles, 2/7

• Track 2: Two day

workshop in

January

Summary of workshop: Useful exchange of high-level

conceptual ideas. Parties agree on need to minimize

cost shifts. IOUs still advocate for PAM. CCAs still

working with IOUS for data access.

IOUs maintain that current methodology only

recoups 65% of all stranded assets; leaving ~$170M in

cost shifting. Calculation uses low assumptions about

IOU portfolio value (i.e., low capacity & RPS values)

If you plug in other legitimate values for capacity

and RPS values, the PCIA almost equally unfairly

impacts unbundled customers. Truth is somewhere in

between.

Power Charge

Indifference

Adjustment

January workshop

resources:

www.cpuc.ca.gov/

General.aspx?id=64

42454781

What’s the value of these stranded assets? Think

beyond cost.

The PCIA is the delta between contracted above-

market portfolio costs and administratively-set

market price benchmark.

Other options proposed to ameliorate cost shifting:

securitization, transfer IOU contracts to CCAs,

auction off portfolio chunks, fine-tune methodology

to include other values (e.g., GHG free), buy-out.

CCAs are aggressively protecting local control and

autonomy over our self-procurement.

Objectives

Cost shifting depends on the variables

Aligning Portfolio Control and

Supply Reallocation

Oversupplied

Utility

Fully

Resourced

CCA

Partially

Resourced

CCA

Unresourced

(New) CCA

Re

sou

rce

s

Loa

d

DA/Wholesale

Market

Trump’s new solar tariffs

Residential Solar Impact:

A few PV developers have told us that

this will result in ~$0.15/ watt increase

in PV modules (~$5.00/MWh increase

in commercial scale PPAs).

Since installation & permitting are a

higher proportion of cost than the

modules for residential projects, these

projects should see a much smaller

impact.

MCE 2021 Power Mix

• Impact on MCE Portfolio

– None of MCE’s existing contracts under development will be affected by the tariff because they already have modules under contract.

– We anticipated the tariff impacts in our portfolio planning and contracted for a significant volume of solar in our last Open Season. (Marin Independent Journal article)

– In 2021 we will have ~38% solar in our power mix. That’s about the maximum we’re comfortable with.

– We do not plan on contracting for new solar this year.

• Possible impact on future CCA procurement:

– New solar PV offers for 2018 Open Season may be impacted and subject to as much as a 20% price increase, if they have not already contracted for PV modules.

MCE is hiring!

Want to be

part of the

movement?

Open positions• Administrative Assistant on Internal Operations team

(apply by 2/9, 4pm)

• Customer Programs Manager on Customer Programs team (apply by 2/9, 4 pm)

• Power Settlements Analyst on Power Resources team(apply by 1/31, 4 pm)

• Chief Operating Officer (open until filled, but please apply by 3/19)

www.mceCleanEnergy.org/careers/

Most important actions for CCAs to support

disadvantaged communities:

1. Provide energy efficiency and solar

rebates

2. Lower electricity rates (e.g., lower

generation rates, reduce PCIA)3. Local development of renewable energy

projects

2016 Community Power

Coalition Survey results

Last year’s survey helped MCE set priorities

and allocate resources

We need your input and feedback to

continue refining our focus and putting

Community first.

Cheers to many more years of growing

together!

2017 Community Power

Coalition Survey

Fin

Additional Slides

Rooftop Solar Customers

* Credits accrue at PG&E’s retail rate. Any generation credits will be zeroed out at the time of PG&E’s annual true–up bill. Delivery credits will be credited at a wholesale rate, called Net Surplus Compensation.** PG&E will continue to bill you for delivery, gas, and other charges annually.

OIR Scoping Memo

400% increase since 2012

OIR – 2 tracks1st: CARE & Medical Baseline Exemption (briefing in Dec 2017; proposed decision in April 2018)

2nd: PCIA Data Access, Transparency, Reform (briefing in March/April 2018; proposed decision in July 2018)

Degrees of involvement: from informal public comment to the CPUC to formal regulatory engagement

Extremely aggressive timeline

PG&E SCE SDG&E

CCA Customers

(not CARE or

Medical Baseline)Yes Yes

Yes

(other than

residential)

CCA CARE

Customers Yes No No

CCA Medical

Baseline

CustomersNo No No

Opt Outs (11/8/17)

30%

24%23% 22% 22% 22%

19% 20% 19% 18% 19% 19% 19%22%

12% 11%10%

15%

12%11%

9% 9% 8% 7%

0%

10%

20%

30%

2010-12

service start

2013

service start

2015

service start

2016

service start

New California

Renewables

Marin and Contra

Costa Projects:

19.95 MWs

64.1 GWhs

PhaseExpected

production (GWhs)

Project Capacity

(MWs)

Online 632.64 188.67

Construction

(steel in the ground)23.5 10.5

Development

(interconnection

agreement executed;

PPA in process)

1,486.94 613.08

Totals 2,143.08 GWhs 812.25 MWs