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1 Board of Directors Meeting
September 24, 2026
Members of the public can address the Board on items on the agenda at the time the item is being addressed or during Public Comments for topics that are not listed on the agenda.
Speakers are limited to three (3) minutes each. Please submit a Speaker’s Slip to the Board Clerk prior to the announcement of the item to be heard. In conformance with the Brown Act, no Board action can occur on items presented during Public Comment.
3 Item 9: Clean Energy Alliance
Chief Executive Officer
Operational and Administrative
Report
4 CEA Enrollment Statistics
5 Member City Eligible
Accounts
Clean Impact
50% Renewable
Clean Impact Plus
55% Renewable/
75% Carbon Free
Green Impact
100% Renewable
Participation
Rate
Carlsbad 55455 269 49491 656 91%
Del Mar 3029 12 2755 73 94%
Escondido 57412 258 53434 70 94%
Oceanside 75015 355 69408 105 93%
San Marcos 38226 205 34978 457 93%
Solana Beach 8048 28 7188 170 92%
Vista 39621 175 36876 352 94%
TOTAL 276806 1302 254130 1883 93%
CEA serves a total of 257,315 customer accounts across its seven member agencies Metrics as of September 1, 2026.
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Completed Community Events
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Date Description City
July 31, 2026 Chavez Community Center Food Distribution Oceanside August 1, 2026 California Center for the Arts: Back 2 School Escondido August 4, 2026 National Night Out Oceanside
August 5, 2026 City of Escondido City Council Meeting Escondido August 7, 2026 Libby Lake Community Center Food
Distribution
Oceanside
August 8, 2026 Flapjacks for Backpacks San Marcos
August 11, 2026 City of Vista Council Presentation with Luminia
Vista
August 19, 2026 Carlsbad Chamber of Commerce Board of
Directors
Online
Completed Community Events
7 Item 9
Date Description City
August 20, 2026 California Hispanic Chambers of Commerce's Procurement Matchmaking
Oakland
August 26, 2026 Vista Environmental Commission Presentation Vista September 1, 2026 MainStreet Oceanside Oceanside
September 2, 2026 Mature Adult Center Open House Solana Beach September 4, 2026 Cal Cities Padres Game San Diego
September 10, 2026 Orange Glen High School Back to School Night Escondido September 17, 2026 CPUC Voting Meeting San Marcos
September 19, 2026 NCAAWA Gentlemen's Gourmet Oceanside September 22, 2026 VIP Donor Appreciation Evening for Moonlight Amphitheater
Vista
Upcoming Community Events
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Date Description City
September 26, 2026 Cyclovia Vista
September 30, 2026 CPUC Small & Diverse Business Expo San Francisco September 30, 2026 SD Farm Bureau - Farmer of the Year Escondido October 1, 2026 CPUC - GO 156 Supplier Diversity En Banc San Francisco October 1, 2026 Energy Academy San Diego
October 2, 2026 US Marine Corps Fall Carnival Oceanside October 2, 2026 Oceanside Heroes Banquet Oceanside
October 3, 2026 CEA/Frontwave Day of Service Carlsbad
October 7, 2026 Del Mar Climate Symposium Del Mar
Upcoming Community Events
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Date Description City
October 7, 2026 Clean Air Day (SDCW) San Diego
October 8, 2026 Solana Beach School District Board
Meeting
Solana Beach
October 11, 2026 San Marcos Harvest Festival San Marcos October 17, 2026 NAACP Freedom Fund Gala Carlsbad
October 25, 2026 APPA Customer Connections Conference Nashville Rate Relief Credit Opt-Downs
Member City Commercial Residential Total
Carlsbad 4 102 106
Del Mar 0 4 4
Escondido 4 110 114
Oceanside 7 158 165
San Marcos 1 93 94
Solana Beach 0 12 12
Vista 3 94 97
TOTAL 19 573 592
10 Item 9
Metrics as of September 3, 2026.
• Percentage breakdown of customer opt-downs by method:
• 61% via Call Center
• Of the call center opt-downs, 49% specifically mentioned Rate Relief Credit as the reason • 37% via self-service Web form
• 2% through self-service Interactive Voice Response (IVR) 11 Solar Plus and Battery Bonus Update
Member
City Solar Plus Solar Plus Connect Battery Bonus Battery Bonus Connect Status Active Complete Active Complete Active Complete Active Complete Carlsbad 3 3 3 0 0 3 3 7
Del Mar 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0
Escondido 10 5 13 0 0 0 3 9
Oceanside 8 6 6 0 0 0 3 11
San Marcos 3 4 3 0 1 1 2 6
Solana
Beach
0 1 1 0 0 0 1 1
Vista 5 2 7 0 1 1 3 10
TOTAL 29 21 34 0 2 5 16 44
MoM
CHANGE
+11 +1 0 0 0 0 -2 +2
Metrics as of Aug. 27, 2026.
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MoM refers to Month-over-Month Change.
Connect Programs SGIP Funding
Member City Solar Plus Connect Battery Bonus
Connect
Carlsbad $85,120 $178,200
Del Mar $26,032 $0
Escondido $398,748 $237,600
Oceanside $180,315 $246,599
San Marcos $89,877 $158,400
Solana Beach $25,426 $39,600
Vista $164,972 $271,596
TOTAL $970,490 $1,131,996
12 Metrics as of Aug. 27, 2026.
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PeakSmart Savers Participants
Member City PeakSmart Savers
Participants
Carlsbad 15
Del Mar 1
Escondido 19
Oceanside 22
San Marcos 3
Solana Beach 0
Vista 16
TOTAL 76
MoM Change +13
13 Metrics as of Aug. 31, 2026.
Item 9
MoM = Month-over-Month
California Climate Credit Update
• In March 2026, CPUC Decision D.26-03-013 temporarily
paused distribution of the Climate Credit
• Funded by CA Cap-and-Investment Program
• Electric Climate Credit
• Historically applied in April/October
• CPUC directed credit be applied to high usage months
• Residential credit shifted to August/September in 2026 • Customers have now received the first of two $49.36 electric credits directly on their bill over the past two months • Second payment due this month
14 Item 9
Staff Event Highlights
• San Diego Energy & Climate Resilience Leadership Summit • August 27, 2026 event hosted by the San Diego Regional Climate Collaborative
• Event provided an opportunity to learn from and connect with energy and climate resilience professionals in the San Diego County region. • California Hispanic Chamber of Commerce Convention (CHCC) – Procurement Matchmaking
• August 20, 2026, event held at the 47th Annual CHCC Statewide Convention in Oakland.
• Event provided an opportunity to connect with small businesses, women-owned businesses, and minority-owned businesses • Event also provided an opportunity to inform on procurement opportunities that within the California Community Choice Aggregation and energy sector.
15 Item 9
Recruitment Update
• Rates Specialist/Analyst
• Interviews Conducted on September 21, 2026
• Final Interviews on September 24, 2026
• Offer to selected candidate expected on September 25, 2026 • Marketing Specialist/Analyst
• Interviews Conducted on September 22, 2026
• Final Interviews on October 6 & 7, 2026
• Energy Data Analyst
• Job Posting/Recruitment to begin early October, 2026
16 Item 9
Questions/Discussion – Item 9
17 Item 10: Consideration of Resolution
Amending and Adopting a Bad Debt,
Delinquent Account, and Collections
Policy
18 19
Item 10
WHY THE UPDATE
What’s driving the change
Policy Review
Discovered outdated policies that do
not align with current CEA or other
CCA practices.
New Policies
Need for an unclaimed funds policy
that does not exist and currently
nothing is being done with unclaimed
funds.
Need for Regular Clean Ups
Establishing a regular monthly
and/or annual process helps to keep
clean-ups manageable and
accounting up to date.
Threshold Limits are Too Low
Realigning with industry practices
compared to other CCAs and
evaluation of impact of write-offs at
old thresholds versus new thresholds.
20 Policy No. CEA-05
Collections Policy: What Changed
AREA PREVIOUS UPDATED
1.0 Purpose Delinquent accounts, write
off, and collections Added late payment notification
2.0 Organizations affected CEA
Updated to 2.0 Applicability and
added Back Office Service
provider, and Collections Agency
3.0 References and 4.0
Definitions None Removed References and added
definitions table
4.0 Policy
Updated pre-collection notification and
removed $ threshold, reordered steps
3-4 and increased write-off threshold to
$99.99 and $100 to refer to collections,
legal action threshold increased to
$5,000, added steps 5, 9 and 11.
Format and title Title box
Removed title box, updated fonts,
style, headers, section titles and
policy name
Low dollar thresholds, no
language for laws and
regulations, or CEO
authorization to cancel
collections accounts
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21 MEASURE $19.99 AN D BELOW $99.99 AND BELOW
Accounts written off 1,300 9,085
Total balance written off $1,249 $394,151
Change vs. Current Policy — +7,785 accounts / +$392,902 • Additional 1,654 accounts with a total balance of $835,476 not already captured in $99.99 write off that were referred over 2 years ago and have not made any payments.
• The largest commercial outstanding balance is $10,538 • The largest residential account balance is $7,667
• If suggested clean up is done as of June 30th 10,739 of the 19,700 (55%) accounts with balances totaling $1,229,627 of the total $6,601,713 (19%) would be written off.
Policy No. CEA-05
Collections Policy: Impact of Changes
Item 10
22 Policy No. CEA-05
Collections Policy: Write-off Data
City Total Count % of Total Total $ % of Total $
Carlsbad 2,607 24% $212,054 17%
Del Mar 135 1% $12,084 1%
Escondido 2,763 26% $504,020 41%
Oceanside 1,971 18% $148,866 12%
San Marcos 1,589 15% $216,275 18%
Solana Beach 379 4% $31,850 3%
Vista 1,295 12% $104,748 9%
Total 10,739 100% $1,229,627 100%
Split between Residential & Commercial:
• Number of Accounts: 10,115 Residential (94%) and 624 Commercial (6%) • Amounts of Write-off: $1,081,649 Residential (88%) and $147,979 Commercial (12%) Item 11: Consideration of Resolution
Amending and Adopting a Check
Handling and Unclaimed Funds Policy
CEA-019
23 24
AREA PREVIOUS UPDATED
Title and 1.0 Purpose Check Handling Check Handling and Unclaimed Funds
3.0 Definition Included 2 Terms Added Unclaimed Funds
Definition
4.0 Handling of Returned
Checks
Extra details, steps out of
order
Simplified, reordered, added
step 7
5.0 Handling of Stale Checks Auto re-issue over $100
Removed $ threshold for re-issues, align with current
practices
6.0 Handling of Unclaimed
Funds N/A
Created new policy for
unclaimed funds and merger
with Check Handling Policy
Policy No. CEA-019
Check Handling Policy: What Changed
Item 11
Questions/Discussion – Item 10
and Item 11
25 Item 12: Regulatory Update
26 Clean Energy Alliance: Regulatory Update
Alissa Greenwald– Keyes & Fox LLP
September 24, 2026
Item 12
Overview
● Docket Nos. A.25-04-014/R.25-04-010: SDG&E Effort to Abandon its Role in Regional Energy Efficiency (EE) Programs and its Interaction with CCA Elect-to-Administer (ETA) Funding Availability
● Docket No. R.25-06-019: Integrated Resource Planning (IRP) Workshop regarding the Plan Governing SDG&E’s Sales of Capacity and Renewable Energy Products (Bundled Procurement Plan (BPP))
● Docket No. A.26-05-009: 2027 Energy Resource Recovery Account (ERRA) Forecast
28 Item 12
Docket Nos. A.25-04-014/R.25-04-010: EE Update
A.25-04-014: Proposed Decision
• Rejects SDG&E’s request to
discontinue its entire regional EE
portfolio
• Reaffirms the Commission’s
commitment to EE as a priority
resource
• Contemplates a future transition of
regional administration
responsibilities, but requires planning
and collaboration with a successor
• Rejects broad limitations on future EE
spending in the region
R.25-04-010: EE Rulemaking
• A.25-04-014 Proposed Decision
preserves the status quo ETA
funding availability in the region
• SD CCA comments on ETA Staff
Proposal recommended
additional modifications to
increase ETA funding availability
in the region
29 Item 12
Docket No. R.25-06-019: Bundled Procurement Plan Workshop BPPs are the Commission-approved framework for how SDG&E manages procurement-related products and transactions on behalf of its bundled customers.
Procurement of
Energy Market
Products
Sales of Energy
Market Products
Risk Management
Strategies
Compliance with and
Use of Commission
Processes
A clear BPP makes utility decisions transparent and instills a sense of assurance that SDG&E has taken the steps necessary to optimize its portfolio and keep costs down for all customers. 30 Item 12
SDG&E 2025 Sold vs. Unsold Resource Adequacy
Sold RA
Unsold RA
Aug-Oct unsold RA
1,892 MW
Lost revenue opportunity
$30 million*
2025 Indifference Amount
~($30,000)
31 Source: 2025 PABA Summary, December 2025 Monthly Volumes Report Item 12
Docket No. A.26-05-009: 2027 ERRA Forecast
Event Date
Opening Briefs October 2, 2026
Reply Briefs October 9, 2026
October Update October 15, 2026
Scheduling Update
Resource Adequacy (RA)-Related Issues Still in Dispute:
• RA Sales Forecast: the amount of RA SDG&E forecasts it will sell in 2027 impacts PCIA rates.
• Retained RA Forecast: the amount of RA SDG&E forecasts it will retain for its own use in 2027 impacts PCIA rates.
32 Item 12
QUESTIONS?
Alissa Greenwald
[email protected]
(913) 302-5567
Item 12
Questions/Discussion – Item 12
34 Item 13: Approving Interconnection
Package for Encina Biogas-to-Energy
Project and Authorizing CEA to Submit
Interconnection Applications to SDG&E
and CAISO
35 Background
36 Item 13
• Encina Wastewater Authority’s
wastewater treatment facilities
sit within CEA’s service territory
in Carlsbad, and the two public
agencies’ Boards share similar
services areas and Board
representation
• Encina and CEA have explored
potential collaboration
opportunities over the past two
years, focusing on potential
energy generation or storage
facilities that could utilize land or
generation resources at the
Encina site
• MOU approved for initial
feasibility efforts in April 2026
Encina Biogas-to-Energy Project
37 Item 13
• Encina has initiated a current Phase 1 biogas-to-energy project to meet onsite needs and has identified a Phase 2 treatment process which will
result in additional production of biogas above
what is necessary to support operations at the
wastewater treatment facility
• The project could offer 4 megawatts (MW) of
renewable electricity generation capacity
which could supply CEA customers locally –
meeting CEA’s needs for Local Resource
Adequacy and renewable energy while
supporting treatment upgrades desired for the
wastewater treatment processes at Encina
Image of future high efficiency / low emissions
linear generator unit
Qualifying for Resource Adequacy
38 Item 13
The DGD study process is intended to
allow an alternative streamlined
approach to RA for distribution
connected resources.
CAISO only studies locations identified
by the CPUC with mapped Distributed
Solar resources.
No allocations in SDG&E service
territory in the past 3 years.
Distributed Generation Deliverability
Larger projects typically interconnect
by participating in the CAISO-wide
Interconnection Cluster Studies
managed by CAISO.
Projects are ranked and scored to
determine which advance and are
allowed to connect.
SDG&E area shows spare capacity,
unlike previous queue clusters.
Full Deliverability – CAISO Queue Cluster 16
Fiscal Impact & Next Steps
39 Item 13
• Total cost of this package in FY26-27 of $189,000; anticipated 50%/50% split to continue but CEA will be submitting full payments initially.
• Future phases of the interconnection process are anticipated to involve additional costs.
• The CAISO Queue Cluster 16 process will occur over a series of phases starting this October through 2027 and beyond. CEA will keep the Board apprised of key updates from this process.
Staff Recommendation
40 Item 13
• Adopt Resolution No. 2026-047 approving the Interconnection Package of Agreements related to the Encina Biogas-to-Energy Project, approving an exception to competitive solicitation requirements under Section 4 of Policy CEA-07, awarding the Agreements to GDS Associates, Inc. and Bright Hill Energy, and approving and ratifying the CEO’s respective signatures for these Agreements.
• Authorize the CEO to work with the Encina Wastewater Authority to submit the related interconnection applications to SDG&E and CAISO.
Questions/Discussion – Item 13
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