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Community Energy Plan Supporting organizations as of April 23, 2002 Bayview Hunters Point
Advocates Communities for a Better
Environment (CBE) Greenaction for Health
and Environmental Justice Literacy for Environmental
Justice (LEJ) San Francisco Community
Power Cooperative Summary of Resources Summary of resources identified this electricity resource portfolio in 2005 and 2012. (In megawatts, based on maximum capacity installed and achieved.)*
* Capacity projections for each resource are City staff draft projections. The sum of these projections exceeds projected peak SF demand projections, even demand projections that do not reflect maximum practical conservation, efficiency, and load shifting. The Hunters Point plant can close without any expansion of the Potrero plant. ** Not available in the City staff's March 2002 draft Plan. The City's next draft of the Plan, to be presented to the Board of Supervisors, should include projections reflecting the maximum practical load shifting in San Francisco. See Also: Read about how
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San Francisco, California In response to the City's proposed Draft Energy Plan, and with a commitment to clean energy technologies, energy conservation, healthy communities, environmental justice and economic equity, we the undersigned oppose the proposed expansion of the Potrero Power Plant (Unit 7), and demand that the Hunters Point Power Plant cease operations immediately, and be decommissioned as soon as practical through implementation of progressive methods to conserve energy usage and to provide the cleanest sources of energy production possible. Following is our plan by which to accomplish these ends. Implement a citywide load-shifting program whereby users would voluntarily reduce energy consumption during peak demand periods and shift consumption to off-peak periods. Similar programs have been established nationwide, and the Independent System Operator (ISO) and California Public Utility Commission (CPUC) have supported several such initiatives at the statewide level. The City staff's March 2002 draft does not include analysis or projections of the maximum practical load shifting in San Francisco. This should be included in the next draft of the Plan. The City should commit to achieving additional load reduction, through efficiency and conservation programs, of at least 23 megawatts by 2005 and at least 107 megawatts by 2012. (All megawatt figures herein refer to peak capacity installed and achieved.) These targets are based on City staff's draft projections, which we believe are feasible. However, substantially more capacity is achievable. Therefore, these targets should be considered a "floor." As part of the load reduction, the City should develop effective conservation and efficiency programs targeting large consumers by 2004. These large consumer programs may include economic incentives, technology requirements, and financial or other disincentives for consumption over a given usage. The City should commit to siting clean sources of distributed generation in San Francisco. By 2005 at least 10 megawatts of San Francisco's electricity should be provided by renewable technologies (such as solar or fuel cell technologies). By 2012 these technologies should provide at least 50 megawatts of generation. These targets are based on City staff's draft projections, which we believe are feasible, but substantially more capacity is achievable. Therefore, these targets should be considered a "floor" to be exceeded during implementation. Effective with the completion of the Jefferson-Martin transmission upgrade, 100% of additional electricity imports should originate from "green" sources (such as wind or hydropower). Potential impacts of transmission projects should be fully evaluated in consultation with affected communities. Fossil fuel generation should be minimized consistent with the Power Plant Ordinance, which requires plans for "all practical transmission, conservation, efficiency, and renewable alternatives to fossil fuel generation in the City and County of San Francisco." We believe that with the additional resources identified above the Hunters Point Power Plant can be closed without the proposed Potrero Power Plant expansion. Further, this may be possible without new fossil fuel generation, although we acknowledge that the timing of alternative resource implementation (and of reliability criteria revisions consistent with these new resources) remains somewhat uncertain. Therefore, if the Energy Plan includes new in-city fossil fuel generation it should be limited to cogeneration projects that are necessary to close the Hunters Point plant and avoid the Potrero expansion, are subject to full public review, and do not cause total new in-city fossil fuel generation to exceed 100 megawatts. Exceptions can be considered if, upon full consultation with affected communities, and after taking all practical alternatives into account, new information shows that more generation is needed to close the Hunters Point plant and avoid the Potrero plant expansion. Actual use ("dispatch") of installed resources to meet changing electricity demand in San Francisco should maximize the use of alternatives to fossil fuel generation and minimize the use of in-city fossil fuel generation. The City's Energy Plan should reflect the Mayor's mandate of a 20% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions by 2010, and also reflect significant reductions in other pollutant releases by developing a program to implement methods to achieve this goal. The City's Energy Plan must be implemented in partnership with community-based organizations in a way that ensures community jobs and business development. The City's Energy Plan must include effective financing and enforcement mechanisms in order to ensure the success of a progressive, model city clean energy plan. |