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George Tyson, Chair
Town of Los Altos Hills
Larry Klein, Vice Chair
City of Sunnyvale
Elliot Scozzola
City of Campbell
J.R. Fruen
City of Cupertino
Zach Hilton
City of Gilroy
Sally Meadows
City of Los Altos
Rob Rennie
Town of Los Gatos
Garry Barbadillo
City of Milpitas
Bryan Mekechuk
City of Monte Sereno
Yvonne Martinez Beltran
City of Morgan Hill
Pat Showalter
City of Mountain View
Tina Walia
City of Saratoga
Otto Lee
County of Santa Clara
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Silicon Valley Clean Energy
Executive Committee Meeting
Friday, May 23, 2025
10:00 a.m.
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Sunnyvale, CA
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The public may provide comments on any matter listed on the Agenda. Speakers are customarily limited to 3 minutes each, however, the Committee Chair may increase or decrease the time allotted to each speaker based on the number of speakers, the length of the agenda and the complexity of the subject matter. Speaking time will not be decreased to less than one minute.
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AGENDA
Call to Order
Roll Call
Public Comment on Matters Not Listed on the Agenda
The public may provide comments on any matter not listed on the Agenda provided that it is within the subject matter jurisdiction of SVCE. Speakers are customarily
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George Tyson, Chair
Town of Los Altos Hills
Larry Klein, Vice Chair
City of Sunnyvale
Elliot Scozzola
City of Campbell
J.R. Fruen
City of Cupertino
Zach Hilton
City of Gilroy
Sally Meadows
City of Los Altos
Rob Rennie
Town of Los Gatos
Garry Barbadillo
City of Milpitas
Bryan Mekechuk
City of Monte Sereno
Yvonne Martinez Beltran
City of Morgan Hill
Pat Showalter
City of Mountain View
Tina Walia
City of Saratoga
Otto Lee
County of Santa Clara
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limited to 3 minutes each, however, the Committee Chair may increase or decrease the time allotted to each speaker based on the number of speakers, the length of the agenda and the complexity of the subject matter. Speaking time will not be decreased to less than one minute.
Consent Calendar (Action)
1) Approve Minutes of the April 22, 2025, Executive Committee Meeting Regular Calendar
2) CEO Update (Discussion)
3) Request to Cancel June 27, 2025 Executive Committee Meeting (Action) 4) Recommend the Silicon Valley Clean Energy Board of Directors Authorize the Chief Executive Officer Approval of CC Power’s Annual Budget and Dues in an Amount Not to Exceed $500,000 for CC Power’s Fiscal Year 2025-2026 and Delegate Authority to the Chief Executive Officer to Enter Agreements Using Approved Funds (Action)
5) 2024 SVCE and Electrification Awareness Residential Customer Survey Results (Informational)
6) Introduction to FY 25/26 Strategic Focus Areas and Strategic Plan (Discussion)
7) New Silicon Valley Clean Energy Building Feedback and Recommendations (Discussion)
8) Program Snapshot: Contractor Training Program (Informational) Committee/Staff Remarks
Adjourn
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Silicon Valley Clean Energy
Executive Committee Meeting
Tuesday, April 22, 2025
1:00 p.m.
Silicon Valley Clean Energy Office
333 W El Camino Real, Suite 330
Sunnyvale, CA
DRAFT MEETING MINUTES
Call to Order
Chair Martinez Beltran called the meeting to order at 1:01 p.m.
Roll Call
Present:
Chair Yvonne Martinez Beltran, Morgan Hill
Vice Chair Sally Meadows, City of Los Altos
Director Elliot Scozzola, City of Campbell
Director George Tyson, Town of Los Altos Hills
Director Tina Walia, City of Saratoga
Director Larry Klein, City of Sunnyvale
Absent:
None.
A quorum was present.
Public Comment on Matters Not Listed on the Agenda
No speakers.
Consent Calendar
Chair Martinez Beltran opened Public Comment.
No speakers.
Chair Martinez Beltran closed Public Comment.
MOTION: Vice Chair Meadows moved and Director Scozzola seconded the motion to approve the Consent Calendar.
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Regular Calendar
2) CEO Update (Discussion)
CEO Monica Padilla shared the following:
• A Special Meeting of the Board of Directors would be held at 4:00 p.m. on May 14, 2025, at SVCE’s new headquarters in Sunnyvale for the purpose of facilitating space planning discussions with Board members and the public; and
• Photo highlights from the Hanford Hybrid Battery Project ribbon-cutting ceremony attended by SVCE Board members and staff.
There was no public comment.
3) Review Opportunity and Strategy for Advancing Demand Flexibility in Silicon Valley Clean Energy's Service Area (Discussion)
Don Bray, Director of Strategic Development, Colton Heath, Trading Planner, Maren Wenzel, Director of Regulatory Policy and Planning, and Joseph Lande, Energy Services Manager, provided a presentation regarding customer Demand Flexibility services.
Staff’s presentation reviewed the needs, goals and opportunities for demand flexibility in SVCE’s service area and a review of the scope and contracting approach for demand flexibility services. Information in the presentation included:
• Highlights of demand flexibility benefits and value;
• Potential for demand flexibility and beneficial load shift in SVCE’s service area; • Overview of the 2024 joint request for proposal (RFP) with Peninsula Clean Energy to identify teaming pattern(s) for SVCE’s demand flexibility efforts with two parts: 1) Provide 5 megawatt (MW) of existing demand flexibility capacity by 2026 and 2) Enroll 25MW of new demand flexibility capacity by 2030; and • Role of a Distributed Energy Resource Management System (DERMS).
Staff responded to committee member questions and comments regarding various EV charging pilots, vendor RFP evaluation process, resource capacity and pricing, residential battery storage and energy load shift optimization, and customer engagement and potential incentives for smart device enrollment.
Staff noted one vendor had been selected as a result of the RFP and an agreement would be brought to the May Board of Directors meeting for consideration; committee members provided feedback on the item.
Chair Martinez Beltran opened Public Comment.
No speakers.
Chair Martinez Beltran closed Public Comment.
4) Update on Silicon Valley Clean Energy E-ELEC Pilot and Recommendations for Next Steps (Action) Peter Mustacich, Technical Manager of Decarbonization Planning and Strategy, provided a presentation reviewing staff’s recommendation to close the E-ELEC 1.0 rate pilot program and launch an E-ELEC 2.0 rate pilot program, in addition to providing a preview of a new residential Electric Vehicle (EV) rate.
Staff responded to committee member questions and comments regarding the proposed E-ELEC 2.0 program pilot customer opt-in and auto-enrollment, and timeframe for launching the E-ELEC 2.0 rate pilot program.
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Chair Martinez Beltran opened Public Comment.
No speakers.
Chair Martinez Beltran closed Public Comment.
MOTION: Director Tyson moved and Director Klein seconded the motion to recommend the SVCE Board of Directors approve to end the current E-ELEC 1.0 Rate Pilot Program and adopt the E-ELEC 2.0 Rate Pilot Program with a budget of $3.5M.
The motion carried unanimously with all committee members present. 5) Recommend Approval of Real Time Price Rate (Action)
Citlalli Sandoval, Senior Regulatory Advisor, provided a presentation with a request for the Executive Committee to recommend the SVCE Board of Directors approve a preliminary real time pricing rate structure.
The presentation included:
• Background information on Load Management Standards (LMS) compliance, which requires a real time pricing (RTP) rate or program option for customers in 2027; • Review of the proposed Pacific Gas and Electric (PG&E) RTP rate structure and subscription proposal; and
• Review of staff’s request for the Executive Committee to recommend that the Board approve the preliminary RTP rate based on PG&E’s rate proposal, with the expectation that the rate will be updated by staff based on learnings from ongoing pilots and regulatory changes.
Staff noted this initial request would be brought to the Board of Directors for consideration at the May Board of Directors meeting, and an implementation recommendation would be brought to the Board with final details and costs prior to 2027.
Chair Martinez Beltran opened Public Comment.
No speakers.
Chair Martinez Beltran closed Public Comment.
MOTION: Director Klein moved and Director Walia seconded the motion to recommend the SVCE Board of Directors approve a preliminary real time pricing rate structure as presented by staff in addition to coming back to the Board of Directors with learnings.
CEO Padilla inquired if the Board Chair would prefer the item on the Consent Calendar or Regular Calendar for the May Board of Directors meeting. Board Chair Tyson noted given the item was compliance related it could go on the Consent Calendar, so long as it was supported by the Executive Committee. There were no objections from the Committee.
The motion carried unanimously with all committee members present. 6) Silicon Valley Clean Energy Board of Directors Best Practices and Operating Rules and Regulations Amendments (Action)
Board Chair George Tyson provided a presentation regarding CCA governance, with a recommendation to establish an Ad Hoc Committee to review SVCE’s Operating Rules and Regulations for potential amendments.
Chair Tyson proposed the slate of members to include Board Chair Tyson, Board Vice Chair Klein, and Director Showalter to serve on the Ad Hoc Committee.
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Directors provided supportive comments regarding the establishment of an Ad Hoc Committee, and discussed the timeline and proposed membership of the group.
Chair Martinez Beltran opened Public Comment.
No speakers.
Chair Martinez Beltran closed Public Comment.
MOTION: Director Klein moved and Director Walia seconded the motion to recommend the SVCE Board of Directors approve the formation of an Ad Hoc Committee and appoint Director George Tyson, Director Larry Klein and Director Pat Showalter to serve on the committee.
The motion carried unanimously with all committee members present.
Director Meadows departed the meeting at 2:58 pm following the vote on Item 6. 7) Program Snapshot: Programs Portfolio Tool in Salesforce (Informational) Nupur Hiremath, Manager of Decarbonization Programs, and Doug Bernard, Management Analyst, provided a presentation regarding SVCE’s implementation of Salesforce applications with key highlights to support customer experience and internal business processes, and increasing customer account engagement with SVCE programs and services.
Staff responded to questions from committee members regarding the rollout of translation services as a part of the implementation effort and staffing needs during the implementation phase.
Chair Martinez Beltran opened Public Comment.
No speakers.
Chair Martinez Beltran closed Public Comment.
Committee/Staff Remarks
There were no remarks from the committee or staff members.
Adjournment
Chair Martinez Beltran adjourned the meeting at 3:05 p.m.
ATTEST:
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Andrea Pizano, Board Secretary
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Staff Report – Item 2
Item 2: CEO Update
From: Monica Padilla, CEO
Prepared by: Andrea Pizano, Sr. Executive Assistant and Board Clerk Date: 5/23/2025
This item will be addressed in the form of an oral report to the Executive Committee.
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Staff Report – Item 3
Item 3: Request to Cancel June 27, 2025 Executive Committee Meeting From: Monica Padilla, CEO
Prepared by: Andrea Pizano, Sr. Executive Assistant and Board Clerk Date: 5/23/2025
RECOMMENDATION
Staff recommends that the Silicon Valley Clean Energy (SVCE) Executive Committee approve the cancellation of the regularly scheduled June 27, 2025 Executive Committee meeting.
BACKGROUND
Staff has reviewed upcoming items and determined that there is nothing pressing to address in June before the June Board of Directors meeting.
ANALYSIS & DISCUSSION
Since staff has not identified any significant items that need to be addressed, staff felt it would be better to cancel the meeting than meet briefly in June. Although staff is proposing to cancel the regular meeting, a special meeting of the committee can be scheduled in the event the Executive Committee needs to meet on any given topic.
STRATEGIC PLAN
Not applicable.
ALTERNATIVES
The Executive Committee can choose to keep the regular June meeting as scheduled.
FISCAL IMPACT
None.
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Staff Report – Item 4
Item 4: Recommend the Silicon Valley Clean Energy Board of Directors Authorize the Chief Executive Officer Approval of CC Power’s Annual Budget and Dues in an Amount Not to Exceed $500,000 for CC Power’s Fiscal Year 2025-2026 and Delegate Authority to the Chief Executive Officer to Enter Agreements Using Approved Funds From: Monica Padilla, CEO
Prepared by: Zak Liske, Deputy Director of Power Resources Date: 5/23/2025
RECOMMENDATION
Staff recommends that the Silicon Valley Clean Energy (SVCE) Executive Committee recommend that the Board of Directors (Board) approve annual budget for payment to California Community Power (“CC Power”) starting CC Power’s next Fiscal Year (July 1, 2025-June 30, 2026) in an amount not to exceed $500,000 and delegate authority to the Chief Executive Officer (“CEO”) to enter agreements using approved funds. This budget enables SVCE to continue its membership and project participation as a part of CC Power. The approval to enter into agreements with CC Power is still subject to the limits and requirements of the SVCE Energy Risk Management Policy.
BACKGROUND
SVCE has been a member of CC Power since early 2021, after the Board of Director’s authorized its membership in December 20201. CC Power is a Joint Powers Authority (“JPA”) of California Community Choice Aggregators (“CCAs”) with the goal to acquire energy, capacity, storage or other energy products on a scale that the individual member CCAs most likely could not be able to achieve individually. CC Power is comprised of nine CCAs throughout Northern California, serving more than six million customers. Since 2021, SVCE, through CC Power, has been able to help meet its share of the California Public Utilities Commission’s (“CPUC”) Mid-Term Reliability (MTR) procurement mandate for long lead resources including two long-duration storage and two geothermal contracts.
SVCE’s CEO, Monica Padilla, serves on the CC Power Board of Directors and on its Ad-hoc Budget Committee.
At CC Power’s April 2025 board meeting a preliminary budget was previewed with the intention of returning in May 2025 to vote for approval.
CC Power’s budget is broken down into several major categories:
• General and Administrative (“G&A”): these are the annual dues assessed equally to all members.
G&A covers overhead and general operating expenses of CC Power. • Phase 1: these are projects and initiatives at which point all members participate and share in costs equally. This would include strategic assessments and working groups open to all members. • Phase 2: projects that advance from Phase 1 and require members to opt-in. Cost allocation is determined on a project specific basis and may be equal or based on size, e.g. load weighted.
Examples of Phase 2 projects would be solicitations and negotiations of potential resources. 1 See SVCE Board of Directors, Agenda Item 5 (Approve Participation in California Community Power Joint Powers Authority), December 9, 2020.
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• Phase 3: this phase is comprised of projects that are “in-flight” with executed agreements. The overwhelming majority of Phase 3 costs are the underlying commodity costs in a power supply contract for which participating CCAs receive all the benefits and are obligated to budget and pay for their respective share. Other Phase 3 costs include the overhead and operating expenses to administer the contracts and projects.
CC Power makes up a unique aspect of SVCE’s procurement activities that can unlock access to projects that may not otherwise make sense for SVCE to do alone either due to size or if an emerging technology. This procurement approach allows for the sharing of cost and risk between several CCAs. To date, the SVCE Board has authorized SVCE’s participation in two power purchase agreements (“PPA”) and two Energy Storage Service Agreements (“ESSA”) through CC Power, all of which are Phase 3 projects:
1. Tumbleweed Long Duration Energy Storage Project approved by the Board at the February 9, 2022 meeting;
2. Goal Line Long Duration Storage Project approved by the Board at the March 9, 2022 meeting;
3. Ormat Nevada Inc. Portfolio of Geothermal Projects approved by the Board at the June 8, 2022 meeting; and
4. Open Mountain Energy LLC., Fish Lake Geothermal Project approved by the Board at the June 8, 2022 meeting.
Notable items in the 2025-26 budget include:
• Phase 1: Annual solicitations, transmission education, scheduling coordinator roadmap, emerging technology exploration
• Phase 2: Origination activities to cover: geothermal, alternative, non-lithium-ion storage, pumped hydro, off-shore and large on-shore wind
• Phase 3: Tumbleweed, Goal Line, Fish Lake, Ormat
ANALYSIS & DISCUSSION
The staff recommendation includes approving SVCE’s share of CC Power’s annual budget of an amount not to exceed $500,000 for the CC Power 2025-2026 fiscal year costs starting July 1, 2025. These costs primarily consist of operating expenses (staff, consultants, legal) and administrative costs. Staff is also asking for CEO authority to enter agreements with CC Power using approved funds under Phase 2 and Phase 3. These agreements will come up throughout the fiscal year and are specific authorizations of SVCE’s participation and CC Power’s use of SVCE approved funds for various projects and activities. Staff recognizes that the limits and requirements of the Energy Risk Management Policy still apply and is not seeking to modify CEO authority on commodity contracts.
Table 1: SVCE Share of CC Power Annual Budget Comparison to Prior Fiscal Year FY 2024-25 FY 2025-26 Change - Increase/(Decrease)
Dues $118,000 $173,977 $55,977
Phase 1 $90,085 $90,085
Phase 2 $237,000 $43,163 -$193,837
Phase 3 $302,000 $79,379 -$222,621
Primary drivers of year-over-year changes:
• Dues: increased overhead and operating expenses of CC Power • Phase 1: previously bundled with Dues in annual budget but now broken out. FY 2025-26 consists of shared exploratory efforts that provide education and may lead to Phase 2 or 3 projects. • Phase 2: decrease due to rollover of funds from prior year budget that were not spent. In FY 2024-25 expected to incur significant expenses for Build Transfer Agreement (“BTA”) solicitation. The solicitation did not yield any project negotiations which resulted in surplus funds available for subsequent fiscal year.
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• Phase 3: decrease due to rollover of funds from prior year budget that were not spent. Most Phase 3 projects are for new resources in development that have fees which can vary depending on development stage and activity.
Note that SVCE has already received BOD approval of Not-to-Exceed limits for its share of commodity costs for the two PPAs and two ESSAs listed above and is not seeking further approval of these costs. These are already captured in the power supply costs of SVCE’s annual budget.
The expected funding requirement for fiscal year 2025-2026 is 41% below the prior fiscal year.
STRATEGIC PLAN
Given the strategic nature of CC Power’s work, continued membership in the organization will support SVCE’s Goal 4 to, “Acquire power supply resources in a cost-effective manner to meet legislative and regulatory obligations, Board directives and customer specific products” and Goal 5 to “Manage and optimize load and power resources to meet affordability, GHG reduction and reliability objectives”.
ALTERNATIVE
Not funding CC Power membership may require SVCE to withdraw from CC Power. SVCE needs to approve funding for CC Power to remain in the four projects noted above. These resources are needed for compliance under CPUC’s procurement orders. SVCE could also seek to fund only that portion of the CC Power budget which corresponds to general administration and direct costs associated with the four projects the Board has approved. However, this would require the CC Power board to allow elective funding level as an option, which it has not thus far.
FISCAL IMPACT
CC Power members pay Dues in Q1 of the CC Power fiscal year (Jul 1 – Jun 30) and Phase 1-3 expenses when activities are undertaken throughout the year. Given the misalignment with SVCE’s fiscal year this means approval of the 2025-2026 CC Power dues will be partially paid in SVCE’s 2025 fiscal year (approx. $200,000) and the remainder paid in fiscal year 2026 (approx. $300,000). SVCE currently includes CC Power costs in the annual budget.
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Staff Report – Item 5
Item 5: 2024 SVCE and Electrification Awareness Residential Customer Survey Results From: Monica Padilla, CEO
Prepared by: Pamela Leonard, Deputy Director of Marketing and Communications Date: 5/23/2025
This item will be addressed in a presentation to the Executive Committee. The presentation will provide an overview of the key takeaways from the annual Silicon Valley Clean Energy (SVCE) customer survey, which measures SVCE awareness levels and tracks customer trends in interests and priorities for adoption of electrification.
ATTACHMENTS
The presentation for this item is posted to the SVCE website.
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Staff Report – Item 6
Item 6: Introduction to FY 25/26 Strategic Focus Areas and Strategic Plan From: Monica Padilla, CEO
Prepared by: Andrea Pizano, Sr. Executive Assistant and Board Clerk Date: 5/23/2025
As in previous years, staff is in the process of an annual review to update Silicon Valley Clean Energy’s (SVCE) Strategic Plan and Strategic Focus areas for the upcoming fiscal year. The draft timeline for the FY 25/26 Strategic Plan and Strategic Focus areas follows:
• May 23, 2025, Executive Committee: Introduction to FY 25/26 Strategic Focus Areas and Strategic Plan (Discussion)
• August 13, 2025, Board of Directors Meeting: Strategic Focus Areas and Strategic Plan Feedback (Discussion)
• August 22, 2025, Executive Committee: Strategic Focus Areas and Strategic Plan Feedback (Discussion)
• September 10, 2025, Board of Directors Meeting: Update on Strategic Plan and Adopt FY25 SVCE Strategic Focus Areas (Action)
ATTACHMENT
The presentation for this item will be posted to the SVCE website.
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Staff Report – Item 7
Item 7: New Silicon Valley Clean Energy Building Feedback and Recommendations From: Monica Padila, CEO
Prepared by: Zoe Elizabeth, Director of Decarbonization Policy and Community Strategies Date: 5/23/2025
This item will be addressed in a presentation to the Executive Committee on input received from the Silicon Valley Clean Energy (SVCE) Board of Directors (BOD) Special Meeting on May 14, 2025 regarding SVCE’s new headquarters and an outline of recommendations for the proposed chambers and community space.
ATTACHMENT
The presentation for this item is posted to the SVCE website.
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Staff Report – Item 8
Item 8: Program Snapshot: Contractor Training Program
From: Monica Padila, CEO
Prepared by: Peyton Parks, Energy Services Manager
Date: 5/23/2025
This item will be addressed in a presentation to the Executive Committee providing a snapshot overview of Contractor Training Program, formerly known as FutureFit Fundamentals.
ATTACHMENT
The presentation for this item is posted to the SVCE website.
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