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Marketing, Regulatory and Legislative Subcommittee
Meeting
Friday, September 16, 2022
12:00 pm
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1. Welcome & Roll Call
2. Public Comment
This item is reserved for persons wishing to address the Marketing, Regulatory and Legislative Subcommittee on any EBCE-related matters that are not otherwise on this meeting agenda. Public comment on matters listed on the agenda shall be heard at the time the matter is called. As with all public comment, members of the public who wish to address the Marketing, Regulatory and Legislative Subcommittee are customarily limited to three minutes per speaker. The MRL Chair may increase or decrease the time allotted to each speaker.
3. Approval of Minutes from June 3, 2022
4. Regulatory Update (Informational Item)
East Bay Community Energy
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Update on regulatory items of interest to EBCE.
5. Legislative Update (Informational Item)
Update on legislative items of interest to EBCE and bill tracker.
6. Marketing and Account Services Update (Informational Item) Update on Marketing and Account Services
7. Committee Member and Staff Announcements including requests to place items on future Board agendas
8. Adjournment to November 4, 2022.
EBCE is committed to protecting our environment and is proud to be a Certified California Green Business
Draft Minutes
Marketing, Regulatory, Legislative Subcommittee
Meeting
Friday, June 3, 2022
12:00 pm
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82375344642
Or join by phone:
Dial(for higher quality, dial a number based on your current location):
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Meetings are accessible to people with disabilities. Individuals who need special assistance or a disability-related modification or accommodation to participate in this meeting, or who have a disability and wish to request an alternative format for the meeting materials, should contact the Clerk of the Board at least 2 working days before the meeting at (510) 906-0491 or [email protected].
If you have anything that you wish to be distributed to the Committee, please email it to the clerk by 5:00 pm the day prior to the meeting.
1. Welcome & Roll Call
Directors: Kumagai (Dublin), Munro (Livermore), and Chair Patino (Union City) Excused: Tiedemann (Albany), Vice-Chair Harrison (Berkeley)
2. Public Comment
This item is reserved for persons wishing to address the Committee on any EBCE-related matters that are not otherwise on this meeting agenda. Public comments on matters listed on the agenda shall be heard at the time the matter is called. As with all public comment, members of the public who wish to address the Committee are customarily limited to three minutes per speaker and must complete an electronic speaker slip. The Committee Chair may increase or decrease the time allotted to each speaker.
There were no speakers for public comment.
3. Approval of Minutes from April 1, 2022
Director Kumagai motioned to approve the minutes. Director Munro seconded the motion which passed 3/0. Excused: Vice Chair Harrison and Director Tiedemann.
East Bay Community Energy
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4. Regulatory Update (Informational Item)
Recommendation: Update on regulatory activities.
The Committee discussed:
How adopting the 24-hour slice-a-day RA framework while rejecting the hourly resource/load trading leads to a much larger amount of procurement of new resources.
There were no speakers for public comment.
5. Legislative Update (Informational Item)
Recommendation: Update on pending legislation.
The Committee discussed:
How any of the proposed bills might affect EBCE’s proposed budget.
There were no speakers for public comment.
6. Committee Member and Staff Announcements including requests to place items on future Board Agendas
There were no announcements or requests for future agenda items.
7. Adjournment to Friday, September 9, 2022
Regulatory
Update
JUNE 3, 2022
Regulatory Highlight
PG&E 2023 Energy Resource Recovery Account (ERRA) & Power Charge Indifference Adjustment (PCIA) Forecast filing
2023 ERRA Forecast
qThe ERRA Forecast proceeding:
• Sets the bundled generation rate for PG&E customers
• Sets the PCIA rate
• Rates may go into effect as early as January 1, 2023
qPG&E filed for new generation/PCIA rates on May 31, 2022 • Reduces PG&E bundled generation rates by ~2 cents/kwh • Reduces the PCIA rate by ~½ cent/kwh
• Net effect would be ~1½ cent/kwh reduction in headroom year/year • Subject to litigation and an update in October
Legislative
Update
SEPTEMBER 9, 2022
Key Deadlines for the 2022 State Legislative Year
• 1/3: Legislature reconvened
• 1/10: Governor submitted budget
• 1/31: Deadline to move 2-year bills out of 1st house
• 2/18: Bill introduction deadline
• 4/29: Policy cmtes to move fiscal bills to fiscal cmtes (1st house) • 5/6: Policy cmtes to move nonfiscal bills to floor (1st house) • 5/20: Fiscal cmtes must move bills to floor (1st house) • 5/27: Last day for bills to be passed out of 1st house • 6/15: Budget bill must be passed
• 7/1: Policy cmtes to meet and report bills (2nd house) • 8/12: Fiscal cmtes to move bills to floor (2nd house) • 8/31: Last day for each house to pass bills
• 9/30: Last day for Governor to sign/veto bills
State Bill Tracker - Assembly
Bill # Author Description Sponsor Status
EBCE
Position
AB 1814 Grayson Authorizes CCAs to file applications for PUC programs and investments to accelerate widespread transportation electrification. CalCCA Author withdrawn SUPPORT AB 1960 Villapudua
Encourages the Senate and the Governor to consider permanent residents of northern, southern and the central valley regions of the state to provide more regional diversity among CPUC commissioners.
Vetoed by
Gov 6/21 SUPPORT
AB 2061 Ting
Requires data disclosure on EV charging station availability for stations using public or ratepayer money and requires the CEC to assess reliability and equitable access issues.
Flo Passed 8/30 WATCH
AB 2667 Friedman
Establishes and requires CEC to administer state IDER Fund to incentivize eligible resources to support consumer adoption of clean DERs, creates a system to award incentives.
NRG / EDF
Failed Sen
floor vote
8/30
OPPOSE
UNLESS
AMENDED
AB 2765 Santiago
Creates a new taxpayer-funded fund to cover the costs of CPUC Public Purpose Programs including energy efficiency and conservation, and arrearage management, instead of continuing to rely on customer delivery rates. Reverts to utility ratepayers if fund isn’t sufficiently funded by the legislature. Excludes CARE/FERA.
Sempra
Held in Asm
Approps
Cmte SUPPORT
State Bill Tracker - Senate
Bill # Author Description Sponsor Status
EBCE
Position
SB 1020 Laird
Sets interim targets for meeting renewable/zero-carbon goals: 90% by end-2035, 95% by end-2040; 100% for state agencies by 2030. State agencies can comply through their LSE, but LSE procurement for the state agency must meet certain criteria. Establishes new fund to support the costs of decarbonization, clean energy, and wildfire mitigation activities with funding sources outside of electricity rates. Establishes new nonprofit public benefit corporation to administer the fund.
Senate
Climate
Change
Working
Group
Passed 8/30 SUPPORT IF
AMENDED
SB 1063 Skinner Authorizes the CEC to make standards for energy- and water-efficient appliances effective sooner than one year after adoption if there’s a finding of good cause. CEC Passed 8/15 SUPPORT SB 1112 Becker Requires energy suppliers (including CCAs) offering decarb programs to record a decarb charge notice, then notice of full cost recovery, then notice of charge removal with the project's county. Passed 8/29 SUPPORT SB 1158 Becker
Changes the Power Source Disclosure rules to require utilities and CCAs to report comparisons of their energy and capacity purchases with their electricity demand on an hourly basis including the associated GHG emissions.
Passed 8/31 WATCH
SB 1385 Cortese
Establishes a new 1,500 MW multifamily housing local solar program that requires each large electrical corporation (IOU) to construct solar and storage systems connected to the distribution system in front of the customers’ meters on or near multifamily housing.
CA State
Assoc of
Electrical
Workers /
CCUE
Held in Asm
Approps Cmte OPPOSE
UNLESS
AMENDED
SB 1393 Archuleta Requires local jurisdictions to consider CEC guidance before mandating that retrofits to a bldg. must upgrade fossil appliances to electric and to file records with CEC.
Held in Asm
Approps Cmte OPPOSE
Federal Bill Tracker
Bill # Author Description Status
Recommended
EBCE Position
H.R 5376 Yarmuth
Authorize renewable energy tax breaks including extending and expanding the Investment Tax Credit (ITC) and Production Tax Credit (PTC), as well as other clean energy-friendly provisions including building decarb incentives, electric vehicle tax credits, and environmental justice incentives Signed by
President 8/16 SUPPORT
Marketing and Account
Services Update
to MRL Committee
SEPTEMBER 9, 2022
2 Marketing & Account Services Updates
• Team Expansion
• DRAFT 2021 Power Content Label Mailer
• October Renewable 100 Transition
3 New Hires and Open Roles
Recent New Hires:
• Sofi Hecht – Marketing Content Coordinator
• Katia Sievert – Programs Marketing Coordinator
• Theresa McDermit – Brand
Open Roles:
• Connect Communities Manager
• Account Services Analyst
4 MAS Team
VP
Head of Brand
Director, Energy
Services
Marketing
Coord, Outreach
Coord, Mar
Content
Mngr, Programs
Marketing
Coord, PM
Director,
Account Services
Analyst, Account
Services
Analyst,
Customer Care
Mngr, Connected
Communities
Mngr, Public
Engagement
Coord, PE
New in last year
Overview of Rate PCL vs JRM
5 Joint Rate Mailer (JRM)
• Required by CPUC
• Deadline is July 1
• Rate and power content comparison with
PG&E
• Goes to all EBCE-eligible customers via email
or mail
Power Content Label Mailer (PCL)
• Required by CEC
• Sent by October 1 each year
• Does not include rate comparison
• Compares power content of EBCE to State
• Goes to EBCE customers served in 2021 via
email and mail
6 DRAFT – 2021 Power Content Label Mailer
7 8
9 2021 Power Content Label
10 October Renewable 100 Transitions
City Overview:
• Commercial: Berkeley, Dublin,
Emeryville, San Leandro
• Residential: Emeryville
11 MEO Overview:
• Minimum of two customer
notices
• Paid print and digital ads
• Social media
• Newsletters
• Chambers of Commerce
• Webinars
Enrollment tracker- August
12 Change from early August
Jurisdiction Customer class Opt Out Remain On
Berkeley non-resi 0.06% 0.29%
Dublin non-resi 0.01% 0.31%
Emeryville resi 0.0% 0.46%
non-resi 0.01% 0.6%
San Leandro non-resi 0.06% 0.12%
October default transition enrollment actions
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