LGC Community Choice Aggregation
Project Update
The Local Government Commission (LGC) and Navigant
Consulting, Inc. (NCI) are moving forward on a project to inform California's
local governments about the opportunities and costs of pursuing
Community Choice Aggregation (CCA). With funding from the California
Energy Commission and US Department of Energy, Seattle Regional
Office, LGC and NCI will be assisting a number of communities in
determining their feasibility of pursuing CCA.
So far, the project includes a group of Bay Area and Los Angeles
area communities. We are still looking for a community or communities
in San Diego Gas & Electric?s service territory to participate.
Our goal is to develop a feasibility template and test it in all
three investor owned utility service territories. One of the goals
of the participating communities' is to exceed the State's minimum
requirement for renewable energy resources in the energy mix they
provide to their customers.
Decisions about how AB 117, the legislation that enables CCA,
will be implemented are being made at the California Public Utilities
Commission (CPUC). The project team is monitoring the workshops,
filings, and eventually the testimony and hearings in order to
develop the template and to keep interested communities informed
of the CPUC process. You can follow the process by logging onto
the LGC discussion board where
we post the CPUC schedule for the proceeding, notes and available
handouts from workshop, and other
information
of interest to potential CCAs. This discussion board has a public
area for anyone, and an area just for California's local governments.
The project team is scheduling workshops with participating communities
to understand their interests in renewable energy and to help them
figure how to meet their renewables goals. Work on the feasibility
template is nearly complete; we are waiting for CPUC decisions
to refine what are currently best estimates for some of the variables.
Data collection for the communities is underway, and some community
modeling has begun. Final reports to communities must wait until
the CPUC decides various cost issues.
LGC will be providing periodic updates on the CPUC process, and
eventually a guidebook, a fact sheet for elected officials, and
workshops for interested communities that cannot be a part of the
project.
For more information about this project, contact:
Pat Stoner: 916-448-1198, ext 309, or pstoner@lgc.org
Josh Meyer: 916-448-1198, ext 310, or jmeyer@lgc.org
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