Executive Committee of the
Clean Power Alliance of Southern California
Regular Meeting
Wednesday, January 18, 2023
1:30 p.m.
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CPA Office
801 S. Grand Ave., Suite 400
Los Angeles, CA 90017
Members of the public may also participate in this meeting remotely at the following locations:
Agoura Hills City Hall
Planning Conference Room
30001 Ladyface Court
Agoura Hills, CA 91301
Ventura County Government Center
Point Mugu Conference Room, 4th Floor
Hall of Administration
800 South Victoria Avenue
Ventura, CA 93009
Beverly Hills City Hall
4th Floor
455 N. Rexford Drive
Beverly Hills, 90210
Camarillo City Hall
Administrative Conference Room
601 Carmen Drive
Camarillo, CA 93010
Hawthorne City Hall
4455 W. 126th Street
Hawthorne, CA 90250
Ojai City Hall
Conference Room
401 S Ventura St.
Ojai, Ca 93023
Sierra Madre City Hall
Council Chambers
232 W. Sierra Madre Blvd.
Sierra Madre, CA 91024
PUBLIC COMMENT: Members of the public may submit their comments by one of the following options:
• Email Public Comment: Members of the public are encouraged to submit written comments on any agenda item to [email protected] up to four hours before the meeting. Written public comments will be announced at the meeting and become part of the meeting record. Public comments received in writing will not be read aloud at the meeting. • Provide Public Comment During the Meeting: The General Public Comment item is reserved for persons wishing to address the Committee on any Clean Power Alliance-related matters not on today’s agenda. Public comments on matters on today’s Consent Agenda and Regular Agenda shall be heard at the time the matter is called. Comments on items on the Consent Agenda are consolidated into one public comment period. Members of the public who wish to address the Agenda Page 1
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CALL TO ORDER AND ROLL CALL
GENERAL PUBLIC COMMENT
CONSENT AGENDA
1. Approve Minutes from November 16, 2022, Executive Committee Meeting
REGULAR AGENDA
2. Oral Update from the Chief Executive Officer on CPA Operations
3. Review Draft Agenda for the February 2, 2023, Board of Directors Meeting
4. Winter Electricity Market Update
COMMITTEE MEMBER COMMENTS
ADJOURN – NEXT REGULAR MEETING ON FEBRUARY 15, 2023
Public Records: Public records that relate to any item on the open session agenda for a regular Board Meeting are available for public inspection. Those records that are distributed less than 72 hours prior to the meeting are available for public inspection at the same time they are distributed to all, or a majority of, the members of the Board. Those documents are available for inspection at CPA Offices or online at www.cleanpoweralliance.org/agendas Agenda Page 2
Executive Committee Item 1
MINUTES
REGULAR MEETING of the Executive Committee of the
Clean Power Alliance of Southern California
Wednesday, November 16, 2022, 1:30 p.m.
The Executive Committee conducted this meeting remotely, pursuant to the Proclamation of the State of Emergency by Governor Newsom on March 4, 2020, AB 361, and enacting CPA Resolutions, and as a response to mitigating the spread of COVID-19.
Meeting videos are available on CPA’s YouTube Channel.
www.youtube.com/@CPApublicmeetings
CALL TO ORDER & ROLL CALL
Chair Gold called the meeting to order at 1:30 p.m. and Gabriela Monzon, Board Clerk, conducted roll call.
Roll Call
Agoura Hills Deborah Klein Lopez Committee Member Remote Beverly Hills Julian Gold Chair Remote
Camarillo Susan Santangelo Committee Member Remote
Hawthorne Alexander Monteiro Committee Member Remote
Los Angeles County Sheila Kuehl Vice Chair Remote
Ojai Betsy Stix Committee Member Absent
Sierra Madre Robert Parkhurst Committee Member Remote
South Pasadena Diana Mahmud Committee Member Remote
Ventura County Linda Parks Vice Chair Remote
All votes are unanimous unless otherwise stated.
GENERAL PUBLIC COMMENT
There was no public comment.
CONSENT AGENDA
1. Approve Minutes from October 19, 2022, Executive Committee Meeting Motion: Committee Member Santangelo, Camarillo
Second: Committee Member Lopez, Agoura Hills
Vote: The consent agenda was approved by a roll call vote.
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November 16, 2022 Minutes
CLOSED SESSION
2. PUBLIC EMPLOYEE PERFORMANCE EVALUATIONS: (Government Code Section 54957) (2)
Titles: Chief Executive Officer and General Counsel
Nancy Whang, General Counsel, reported that no reportable action was taken on Item 2; direction was provided.
3. CONFERENCE WITH LABOR NEGOTIATORS (Government Code Section 54957.6) (1)
Agency Designated Representatives: Ted Bardacke
Unrepresented Employees
Ms. Whang reported that no reportable action was taken on Item 3; direction was provided.
REGULAR AGENDA
4. Oral Update from the Chief Executive Officer on CPA Operations Ted Bardacke, CEO, announced that Committee Member Deborah Klein Lopez was appointed as Chair of the Legislative & Regulatory Committee, creating a vacancy on the Executive Committee for an at-large position for Los Angeles County. Additionally, the election for Ojai Mayor, involving Executive Committee member Betsy Stix, has not yet been called.
5. Review Draft Agenda for the December 1, 2022, Board of Directors Meeting Mr. Bardacke discussed items on the Board consent agenda, including the return of in-person Board meetings in February 2023; announced a new remote location in the South Bay for Board meetings; and noted that Committee meetings will continue to have flexibility about where and how members attend.
Mr. Bardacke discussed potential items on the Board regular agenda, including technical assistance and software contracts, benefits and salaries, Power Purchase Agreements (PPAs), and an update to CPA’s implementation plan to formally add the three new cities to CPA service.
COMMITTEE MEMBER COMMENTS
Committee Member Mahmud advised that there may be an opportunity for her to continue to serve as an alternate Board member, enabling her continued presence on both the Executive and Energy Committees. Mr. Bardacke added that Committee Member Zuckerman may be appointed as an alternate Board member and if so would continue on the Finance Committee. Chair Gold expressed support for the appointments, opining that it provides continued key institutional knowledge. Chair Gold reminded the Committee that the next meeting will be in January and wished everyone a happy Thanksgiving.
ADJOURN
Chair Gold adjourned the meeting at 3:49 p.m.
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Staff Report – Agenda Item 2
To: Executive Committee
From: Ted Bardacke, Chief Executive Officer
Subject: Oral Update from the CEO on CPA Operations
Date: January 18, 2023
The CEO will provide an oral report on CPA operations, including:
• New Board Member Appointments and Onboarding
• LA County Fiscal Controls, Policies and JPA Program Review • Resource Adequacy Update
ATTACHMENT
1. List of New Board Members
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New Board Members – 2023
Member
Agency
New Member Orientation
Los Angeles
County
Lindsey Horvath (previous Board Member for West
Hollywood)
NA
Ventura County Vianey Lopez (previous alternate for Oxnard) NA Arcadia Michael Cao (newly elected councilmember) Scheduled Calabasas Not yet designated
Culver City Albert Vera (Mayor)
Downey Mario Trujillo (previous alternate for Downey)
Hawaiian
Gardens
Maria Teresa Del Rio
Malibu Not yet designated
Manhattan
Beach
Amy Howorth (returning Board member) Completed
Moorpark Renee Delgado (newly elected councilmember)
Rolling Hills
Estates
Not yet designated
Simi Valley Rocky Rhodes (newly elected councilmember)
South Pasadena Not yet designated
Thousand Oaks David Newman (newly elected councilmember) Scheduled Ventura City Liz Campos (newly elected councilmember)
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Staff Report – Agenda Item 3
To: Executive Committee
From: Ted Bardacke, Chief Executive Officer
Subject: Review Draft Agenda for February 2, 2023 Board of Directors Meeting
Date: January 18, 2023
Staff will provide an overview of the proposed agenda items for the February 2, 2023, Board of Directors meeting for review and feedback from the Executive Committee. The draft Board agenda is attached to this staff report. Information on the main items for Board consideration is provided below.
CONSENT AGENDA
The following action items are recommended for inclusion on the Consent Agenda of the February Board meeting.
Contract for Settlements Software
CPA clears over $600 million in energy procurement costs annually through the California Independent System Operator (“CAISO”) market, including both its load and supply resources. Tenaska Power Services, CPA’s third-party scheduling coordinator, currently provides CPA with basic CAISO settlement services and a settlements dashboard. Given the complexity of data generated by CAISO market operations as well as the importance of tracking these costs for CPA’s overall financial results, CPA has been planning to expand its in-house settlements functionality with the procurement of a settlements software platform, which will track CAISO settlements, forecast future settlement values, and create additional reporting on CPA’s portfolio financial performance, including individual supply resource asset performance.
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Executive Committee Item 3
To secure this software, on September 14, 2022, CPA released a Request for Proposals (RFP) for settlements software, implementation, and training. CPA received two proposals and has completed negotiations to contract for these services. The proposed contract is a one-year contract that includes an upfront software implementation fee and a one-year license and cloud services fee at a cost of approximately $390,000, with four additional annual renewals authorized for the software license and cloud services, at CPA’s discretion. The total value for the contract including all possible renewals for a 5- year period is expected to be approximately $1.4 million ($390,000 in the first year and approximately $240,000 in each renewal year). CPA budgeted for the first-year costs of this software acquisition in the Board-approved FY 22/23 budget.
REGULAR AGENDA
The following items are recommended for inclusion on the Regular Agenda of the February Board meeting.
2023 Legislative and Regulatory Platform and Modification of Procedures for Adopting Positions on Proposed Legislative Bills
The CPA Legislative & Regulatory Policy Platform serves as a framework for CPA’s advocacy and policy efforts and is updated and approved annually by the Board. At the November 2022 Legislative & Regulatory Committee meeting, staff proposed a change to the current policy platform framework so that staff can more nimbly take positions on bills using the platform, rather than seeking Board approval for each bill position. The Committee was supportive of the idea and directed staff to bring a revised Legislative & Regulatory Policy Platform back to the Committee at its January meeting, as well as a revised bill position protocol. If the Legislative & Regulatory Committee approves this new protocol and associated platform, CPA staff will present the revised Policy Platform and bill position protocol to the Board. In anticipation of a modification to the logistics around taking positions on bills, the proposed 2023 Legislative & Regulatory Policy Platform (attached) is more detailed so that staff can have more strict guidance when/if exercising greater responsibility in this area.
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Executive Committee Item 3
Customer Programs Update and Building Electrification Technical Assistance/Public Outreach Contract
The CPA Board approved the Local Programs for a Clean Energy Future plan (“Plan”) in June 2020. This Plan charts a strategic vision for customer programs supporting resiliency and grid management, building and transportation electrification, and local procurement. These programs can bring local benefits such as customer cost savings, economic and workforce development, improved air quality and public health, and more resilient communities.
Included in the Plan is a series of priority programs, including a building electrification program to incentivize municipalities to evaluate and adopt local codes that require buildings to receive more of their power from electricity rather than natural gas, also known as a “reach code”. A reach code is when a local city or county building department adopts standards that go above the minimum energy efficiency requirements of statewide building standards. CPA staff have developed the overall parameters of this program and selected a vendor through a competitive solicitation process to assist with program implementation. This vendor will provide technical support to local agencies, public outreach facilitation and support, and consulting services to CPA about future building electrification program opportunities.
Additionally, CPA staff are in the process of performing a mid-cycle review of the Plan to review the current programs and identify areas of opportunity to expand our impact within the framework set up by the existing plan. This will culminate in “action plans” providing additional and updated detail on our implementation approaches under the three programmatic pillars which will be presented to the Board for consideration in the Spring.
CPA staff will provide background on the Plan, an overview of its mid-cycle review process (including opportunities for additional Board input) and seek Board approval for the building electrification contract with the selected vendor.
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Executive Committee Item 3
Winter Electricity Market Update
This will be presented to the Board of Directors as an information item. A summary of this item will be presented to the Executive Committee as Item 4 on the Executive Committee Agenda.
Quarterly Communications Report
The Director of Communications and Marketing will provide an update on communications and outreach activities for the previous quarter, including accomplishments, metrics, and a lookahead to activities for the upcoming year, including celebration of CPA’s 5
th Anniversary. This reporting will be subsequently presented to the Board on the consent agenda following the end of each quarter of the calendar year.
ATTACHMENTS
1. Draft February 2, 2023, Board of Directors Agenda
2. 2023 Proposed Legislative and Regulatory Policy Platform Agenda Page 10
REGULAR MEETING of the Board of Directors of the
Clean Power Alliance of Southern California
Thursday, February 2, 2023
2:00 p.m.
CALL TO ORDER AND ROLL CALL
PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE
GENERAL PUBLIC COMMENT
CONSENT AGENDA
1. Approve Minutes from December 2, 2022 Board of Directors Meeting
2. Approve Contract for Settlements Software
3. Receive and File Community Advisory Committee Monthly Report
REGULAR AGENDA
Action Items
4. Legislative and Regulatory Platform and Logistics
5. Programs Update and Building Electrification Technical Assistance/Public Outreach Contract
Information Item
6. Winter Electricity Market Update
7. Quarterly Communications Report and 2023 Look Ahead
MANAGEMENT REPORT
COMMITTEE CHAIR UPDATES
BOARD MEMBER COMMENTS
REPORT FROM THE CHAIR
ADJOURN – NEXT REGULAR MEETING ON MARCH 2, 2023
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2023 Proposed Legislative and Regulatory Policy Platform Overview and Purpose
The Clean Power Alliance (CPA) Legislative and Regulatory Policy Platform (Platform) serves as a guide to the CPA Board of Directors and CPA staff in their advocacy efforts and engagement on policy matters of interest to CPA. The Platform allows both members of the CPA Board of Directors and CPA staff to pursue actions at the local, regional, state and federal legislative and regulatory levels in a consistent manner and with the understanding that they are pursuing actions in the best interest of the organization and its mission, its member agencies, and its customers.
The Platform provides direction to CPA staff on positions that should be taken on regulatory matters and legislative bill proposals. The Platform also provides guidance to the Chief Executive Officer on positions that should be taken on legislative and regulatory matters that come before the California Community Choice Association (CalCCA) Board of Directors.
CPA staff report to the Board monthly on all positions taken on legislative bills. For bills that fall outside the scope of this platform, bills that are likely to attract high-profile supporters and detractors, bills that would raise taxes, or bills that would knowingly put CPA at odds with positions that its member agencies have taken, CPA staff will present a proposed position to the CPA Board of Directors and its Legislative & Regulatory Committee before taking a position.
Policy Principles
The Legislative and Regulatory Policy Platform is centered around five basic principles:
1. Protecting CPA’s local control and competitive position, especially as it relates to rates, finances, power procurement and expansion of its service territory.
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2. Pursing power resource planning and procurement that promote the growth in renewable energy capacity at the local level and reduce fossil fuel dependency, with the goal of combating climate change.
3. Developing and administering customer programs that encourage clean energy adoption by CPA customers.
4. Ensuring fair access to data, particularly as it relates to energy usage, billing, and information needed to develop and administer customer programs.
5. Supporting CPA’s ability to set electric rates and offer programmatic services that are affordable and inclusive for all.
These principles are incorporated throughout the below platform.
Policy Platform
1) Competition and Local Control
a. Fair rates and cost allocation: CPA will pursue administrative and legislative initiatives that will ensure that non-bypassable charges assessed for CPA customers are fair, and that CPA’s customers are not unnecessarily burdened by non-bypassable charges.
b. Finances: CPA will pursue administrative and legislative initiatives to ensure that CPA is eligible to apply and receive funding made available to the electricity sector for decarbonization, reliability, and affordability purposes, and that CPA’s financial health are not disparately impacted by new regulations.
c. CCA Expansion: CPA will pursue administrative and legislative initiatives to protect CPA’s ability to expand its service to new member agencies. d. Local Control: CPA will pursue administrative and legislative initiatives to protect CPA Board’s authority over CPA’s procurement, rate-setting, and customer program development activities.
2) Power Resources Planning and Procurement
a. Resource Adequacy and Reliability: CPA will pursue administrative and legislative initiatives that will enable CPA to secure capacity resources to meet its reliability obligations, such as initiatives that evaluate the supply of capacity resources available to load serving entities (LSEs), determine the appropriate market mechanisms for LSEs to procure capacity resources, and develop a durable policy framework that encourage LSEs to construct new capacity resources and retain existing capacity resources to maintain grid reliability while balancing CPA’s and the State’s decarbonization goals.
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b. Carbon-Free Resources: CPA will pursue administrative and legislative initiatives that will maximize CPA’s ability to procure carbon-free resources to meet or exceed the needs of CPA’s three product offerings and its long-term carbon-free procurement goal as required by SB 100 and other statutory or regulatory obligations.
c. Renewable Resources: CPA will pursue administrative and legislative initiatives that will maximize CPA’s ability to procure eligible Renewable Portfolio Standard (RPS) resources to meet the needs of CPA’s three product offerings and its long-term RPS procurement goal as required by SB 100 and other statutory or regulatory obligations.
d. Integrated Resource Plan: CPA will pursue administrative and legislative initiatives that will maximize CPA’s ability to plan and procure resources to meet various environmental and reliability goals set by state laws and by its Board of Directors, while offering affordable products and programs to serve its customers, including disadvantaged communities.
e. Transmission: CPA will pursue administrative and legislative initiatives that will provide CPA adequate access to transmission capacity to maximize its procurement of RPS-eligible or carbon-free resources that meet various statutory and regulatory requirements.
f. Research & Development: CPA will pursue administrative and legislative initiatives that support the research and development of new energy resources that can be procured to meet the reliability and decarbonization goals set by the State and its Board of Directors.
3) Customer Programs
a. Demand Response, Demand Flexibility and Energy Efficiency: CPA will pursue administrative and legislative initiatives that will enable CPA to pursue demand response programs and opportunities for its customers. b. Zero-emission vehicles: CPA will pursue administrative and legislative initiatives to promote electrification of the transportation sector in response to state and federal goals aimed at increasing the usage of zero emission vehicles.
c. Building decarbonization: CPA will pursue administrative and legislative initiatives that supports the ability of CPA to promote electrification and the reduction of natural gas usage in the building sector.
d. Local Grid Management and Resiliency: CPA will pursue administrative and legislative initiatives that supports the ability of CPA and its member agencies to offer local grid management and resiliency solutions to increase local reliability and adaptability that could protect against power outages and extreme heat.
e. Distributed Energy Resources: CPA will pursue administrative and legislative initiatives that supports the ability of CPA to offer and utilize distributed Agenda Page 14
energy resources as part of its reliability, resiliency and community engagement strategies.
f. Research and Development: CPA will pursue administrative and legislative initiatives that supports the ability of CPA to explore new opportunities related to behind the meter clean energy resources.
4) Data Access
a. Timely and Accurate Access to Customer Data: CPA will pursue administrative and legislative initiatives that will enable CPA to obtain timely and accurate access to its customers’ data to improve billing accuracy and inform the development and implementation of customer programs. b. Fair Fees for Data Management Services: CPA will pursue administrative and legislative initiatives to ensure that the fees due to Southern California Edison for data access and management are fairly assessed based on data needs and potential technological improvements.
5) Diversity, Equity, Inclusion
a. Customer Protection: CPA will pursue administrative and legislative initiatives that supports the protection of all ratepayers, particularly environmental and social justice communities in CPA’s service territory.
b. Supplier Diversity: CPA will pursue administrative and legislative initiatives that supports supplier diversity in CPA’s contracting activities and through women-owned, minority-owned, disabled-veteran-owned, and lesbian, gay, bisexual, and/or transgender owned business enterprises. c. Workforce Development: CPA will pursue administrative and legislative initiatives that supports workforce development with a focus on new stable, well-paying local jobs, and participation in a just transition to a low-carbon economy.
d. Energy Equity: CPA will pursue administrative and legislative initiatives that supports increased access to clean energy technologies, clean energy and contracting jobs, and clean energy opportunities for environmental and social justice communities in CPA’s service territory.
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Staff Report – Agenda Item 4
To: Executive Committee
From: Ted Bardacke, Chief Executive Officer
Subject: Winter Electricity Market Update
Date: January 18, 2023
RECOMMENDATION
Information only.
ATTACHMENT
Presentation will be distributed prior to the meeting.
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