The Draft Resolution (“DR”) would approve a budget for CleanPowerSF of $4,579,056 over the course of its three-year Energy Efficiency Program Plan. The single program will focus on providing customers in the food service sector with various energy efficiency equipment upgrades. CleanPowerSF plans to utilize the Bay Area Regional Energy Network’s (“BayREN”) existing implementation infrastructure which, if successful, could prove as a means for California CCAs to work cooperatively with other RENs to reduce costs and expand EE service to more customers.
In Advice Letter (“AL”) 17-E, CleanPowerSF requests to elect to administer its Community Food Service Energy Efficiency Program (the “Program”), which will focus on serving the following customers in the food service industry:
The Program will provide direct installation to eligible customers. CleanPowerSF will enlist an energy service company (“ESCO”) that will provide turnkey services including customer pre-qualification, securing customer consent to access usage via PG&E’s “ShareMyData” platform, and conducting an engineering assessment. The assessment will include recommendations for equipment and energy savings potential compiled in an energy management plan. The ESCO will specify new equipment; coordinate and schedule installation; and conduct commissioning and training. Proposed upgrade measures include:
CleanPowerSF’s Program will utilize BayREN’s existing commercial program implementation infrastructure as a model to reduce upfront costs and time. With this approach, CleanPowerSF is piloting a means for other California CCAs to work cooperatively with their RENs to reduce administration costs, improve cost-effectiveness of both administrators’ programs and to expand EE services to more customers. This pilot holds the potential to scale not only in the Bay Area, but also throughout the state as more CCAs and RENs are formed. To serve small and medium businesses (SMBs) and underserved sectors the Program also employs the normalized metered energy consumption (NMEC) approach.
CleanPowerSF requested a total budget of $4,579,056 to implement and evaluate its Program over a three-year period. In AL 17-E, CleanPowerSF provides the following inputs to the formula for the maximum funding it can request. First, CleanPowerSF estimates that the total electricity EE non-bypassable charge collections from the CleanPowerSF’s customers is $45,304,716.68 annually. CleanPowerSF estimates that $7,444,580 out of a total budget of $220,967,635 or 3.37% of PG&E’s total budget is dedicated to local programs. CleanPowerSF then multiplied $45,304,716.68, its total projected electricity EE non-bypassable charge collections, by 0.0337 to get a three-year cap of $4,579,056.
