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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