MCE TECHNICAL COMMITTEE MEETING MINUTES
Thursday, May 5, 2022
8:30 A.M.
The Technical Committee Meeting was conducted pursuant to the requirements of Assembly Bill No. 361 (September 16, 2021) which allows a public agency to use teleconferencing during a Governor-proclaimed state of emergency without meeting usual Ralph M. Brown Act teleconference requirements. Committee Members, staff and members of the public were able to participate in the Committee Meeting via teleconference.
Present: Gina Dawson, City of Lafayette
Kevin Haroff, City of Larkspur
Katie Rice, County of Marin, Acting Chair
Teresa Onoda, Town of Moraga
Devin Murphy, City of Pinole
Katy Miessner, City of Vallejo
Absent: John Gioia, Contra Costa County
Ford Greene, Town of San Anselmo
Scott Perkins, City of San Ramon
Staff
& Others: Jesica Brooks, Assistant Board Clerk
Vidhi Chawla, Manager of Power Resources
Darlene Jackson, Board Clerk
Vicken Kasarjian, Chief Operating Officer
David Potovsky, Principal Power Procurement Manager
Evelyn Reyes, Internal Operations Coordinator
Sabrinna Soldavini, Policy Analyst
Lindsay Saxby, Director of Power Resources
Dawn Weisz, Chief Executive Officer
1. Roll Call
Acting Chair Rice called the regular Technical Committee meeting to order at 8:31 a.m. with quorum established by roll call.
2. Board Announcements (Discussion)
There were no announcements.
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3. Public Open Time (Discussion)
Acting Chair Haroff opened the public comment period and there were no comments.
4. Resolution No. 2022-06 Authorizing Remote Teleconference Meeting for the Technical Committee Pursuant to Government Code Section 54953(e) Catalina Murphy, Senior Legal Counsel presented this item and addressed questions from Committee members.
Acting Chair Rice opened the public comment period and there were no comments.
Action: It was M/S/C (Miessner/Onoda) to adopt proposed Resolution No. 2022-06 Authorizing Remote Teleconference Meetings for the Technical Committee Pursuant to Government Code Section 54953(e).
Motion carried by unanimous roll call vote. (Absent: Directors Gioia, Greene, and Perkins).
5. Report from Chief Executive Officer (Discussion)
CEO, Dawn Weisz, reported the following:
Energy Efficiency results
o Huge energy and thermal savings. 2021 Highlights include:
6.32 GWh electric savings (up 222% over 2020), 338,000
Therms gas savings (up 363% over 2020), Commercial
program was cost effective at 1.28 TRC, and the equity
segment achieved 206% of its electricity saving goals.
o The LIFT program won the 2022 Spare the Air Leadership Award from BAAQMD as a replicable and scalable blueprint for other rebate programs throughout California.
Electric Vehicles
o Gearing up to expand the MCE Sync pilot with the goal of 4,000 customers enrolled by March 2023.
o MCE Sync was accepted as a presentation at Roadmap, the leading national EV conference.
o Element Markets has been selected after a solicitation as our LCFS credit broker. They will be helping claim credits from the Sync pilot and sell the credits we’ve already claimed from the SR parking lot and a few select EVSE rebate recipients. Request for Letter of Opposition to SB 881 was sent to the Board of Directors asking for participation.
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o Completed a successful trip to Washington DC last week where staff and board members participated in Federal
Legislative meetings over a day and a half. A thank you to Directors Murphy and Quinto for accompanying staff and
contributing to these important meetings.
o Presented live Legislative Advocacy map along with
instructions on how to register.
6. Consent Calendar (Discussion/Action)
C.1 Approval of 3.3.22 Meeting Minutes
Acting Chair Rice opened the public comment period and there were no comments.
7. Renewable Portfolio Standard Voluntary Allocations from PG&E (Discussion/Action)
Sabrinna Soldavini, Policy Analyst and Vidhi Chawla, Manager of Power Resources, presented this item and addressed questions from Committee members.
Acting Chair Rice opened the public comment period and there were comments made from members of the public Howdy Goudey and Daniel Segedin.
Action: It was M/S/C (Onoda/Murphy) to delegate authority to staff to determine whether to accept an allocation from PG&E; elect the share from the short-term and long-term resource pools; and enter into any necessary agreements to effectuate the allocation. Motion carried by unanimous roll call vote. (Absent: Directors Gioia, Greene, and Perkins).
8. Overview of Open Season 2022 (Discussion)
David Potovsky, Principal Power Procurement Manager, presented this item and addressed questions from Committee members.
Action: It was M/S/C (Onoda/Dawson) to approve Consent Calendar C.1.
Motion carried by unanimous roll call vote. (Absent: Directors Gioia, Greene, and Perkins).
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Action: No action required.
9. Committee & Staff Matters (Discussion)
There were none.
10.Adjournment
Acting Chair Rice adjourned the meeting at 10:02 a.m. to the next scheduled Technical Committee Meeting on June 2, 2022.
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Katie Rice, Acting Chair
Attest:
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Dawn Weisz, Secretary
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