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Community Choice Aggregation:
A Workshop for Local Government Leaders and Staff
Date: October 10, 2007, Petaluma, CA
Community Choice Aggregation (CCA) allows cities and counties, or groups of them,
to supply electricity to customers within their borders. This workshop was for local
elected officials, city managers, county administrators, public works directors, facility
managers, and other community members interested in learning about CCA.
The Local Government Commission and Navigant Consulting, Inc. has been working with a
dozen cities and counties over the past three years to investigate the feasibility of
implementing CCA. This project was funded by the California Energy Commission's Public
Interest Energy Research's renewable energy program and the US Department of Energy.
One of the goals of the project was to see if the cost of doubling the amount of renewable
energy consumed in CCA communities could be economically competitive with utility rates.
This workshop provided participants with basic information about CCA, and highlighted the results
of some of the project's studies. Participants heard from local governments investigating
CCA, some in this project and some not. They dsicussed why they are interested,
what they see as the benefits and the risks, as well as the barriers they have encountered
and how they have overcomed them.
Presentations:
- Community Choice Aggregation Overview, Patrick Stoner, Local Government Commission [Presentation (PDF, 192 KB)]
- State of California Perspective, Carlos Velasquez, CPUC [Presentation (PDF, 176 KB)
- State of California Perspective, Gerry Braun, California Energy Commission [Presentation (PDF, 332 KB)]
- CCA Pilot Project Update, Kirby Dusel, Navigant Consulting [Presentation (PDF, 624 KB)]
- PG&E Perspective, John Newman and Hal La Flash, PG&E [Presentation (PDF, 780 KB)]
- Local Action to Significantly Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions, David Erickson, Climate Protection Campaign [Presentation (PDF, 792 KB)]
- Controlling Our Energy Future, Cristel Tufenkjian, San Joaquin Valley Power Authority [Presentation (PDF, 116 KB)]
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