Stevenson, Garrett
Subject:FW: MSC 10/10 Public Comment - Agenda Item 2 - Support for 100% Carbon Free Electricity by 2030
From: Bert Newton <>
Sent: Sunday, October 8, 2023 3:10 PM
To: Sabha, Tamer <[email protected]>; [email protected] Cc: Williams, Felicia <[email protected]>; Jones, Justin <[email protected]>; Hampton, Tyron <[email protected]>; Lyon, Jason <[email protected]> Subject: MSC 10/10 Public Comment - Agenda Item 2 - Support for 100% Carbon Free Electricity by 2030 [Al CAUTION: This email was delivered from the Internet. Do not click links or open attachments unless you know {he content is safe. Report phish using the Phish Alert Button. Learn more....
City Council Members,
While we enjoyed a relatively mild summer this year in Pasadena, the weather in much of the rest of the world was nothing less than scary! The heat waves, forest fires, storms, droughts and floods are begiiming to feel like they are straight out of the biblical book of Revelation! For this reason, I urge you to support a plan for 100% carbon free electricity by 2030. The City Council has already voted on this as a goal, but we need a plan to get there.
A viable plan should address these 7 strategic areas:
1.) increased rooftop solar in commercial, residential and municipal buildings for resilience and supply;
2.) developing adequate electricity storage (batteries);
3.) demand reduction and power optimization policies and technologies;
4.) urgent repair and expansion of the bottleneck at the Goodrich station that will impede our ability to import electric power no matter the source;
5.) rate equity and community solar for low-income ratepayers;
6.) accelerated power purchase agreements (PPA's);
7.) accessing federal and state funding programs to help pay for our investments.
Thank you for your attention to this very crucial and urgent matter.
Rev. Bert Newton
Making Housing and Community Happen
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Subject:FW: MSC 10/10 Public Comment - Agenda Item 2 - Support for 100% Carbon Free Electricity by 2030
From: Gail Werbach < >
Sent: Sunday, October 8, 2023 4:14 PM
To: Sabha, Tamer <[email protected]>; [email protected] Cc: Williams, Felicia <[email protected]>; Jones, Justin <[email protected]>; Hampton, Tyron <[email protected]>; Lyon, Jason <[email protected]> Subject: MSC 10/10 Public Comment - Agenda Item 2 - Support for 100% Carbon Free Electricity by 2030 City Council Members,
My name is Gaitl Werbach. I am a resident of the district 6. and I urge you to support a plan for 100% carbon free electricity by 2030. I want healthy grandchildren!
GailWerbach
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Subject:FW: MSC 10/10 Public Comment - Agenda Item 2 - Support for 100% Carbon Free Electricity by 2030
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From: Michael Robertson < >
Sent: Monday, October 9, 2023 9:33 AM
To: Sabha, Tamer <[email protected]>; Stevenson, Garrett <[email protected]> Cc: Williams, Felicia <[email protected]>; Jones, Justin <[email protected]>; Hampton, Tyron <[email protected]>; Lyon, Jason <[email protected]> Subject: MSC 10/10 Public Comment - Agenda Item 2 - Support for 100% Carbon Free Electricity by 2030 City Council Members,
My name is Michael Robertson, I am a resident of district 4, and I urge you to support a plan for 100% carbon free electricity by 2030.
I am a professional Environmental Scientist and know the dangers we all face from climate change first-hand. The time to act is now and some of the most meaningful change can come from action at the community and local level. I urge the city of Pasadena to do what it takes to decarbonize the electric grid by passing a comprehensive power plan that strictly mandates 100% carbon free electricity by 2030, a goal the city council unanimously approved.
Please take this city-wide goal seriously and do not allow Pasadena Water and Power to mislead you, provide incomplete information, or tell you it can't be done. Carbon free electricity by 2030 can and must be accomplished for the health and well being of the people of our city, the environment as a whole, and for our future.
Thank you!
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Subject:FW: MSC 10/10 Public Comment - Agenda Item 2 - Support for 100% Carbon Free Electricity by 2030
From: Shayne Smith < >
Sent: Monday, October 9, 2023 9:30 AM
To: Sabha, Tamer <[email protected]>; Stevenson, Garrett <[email protected]> Cc: Williams, Felicia <[email protected]>; Jones, Justin <[email protected]>; Hampton, Tyron <[email protected]>; Lyon, Jason <[email protected]> Subject: MSC 10/10 Public Comment - Agenda Item 2 - Support for 100% Carbon Free Electricity by 2030 City Council Members,
My name is Shayne Smith. I am a resident of District 7. For context, I am a retired engineering consulting executive, familiar with the power planning process and the needs of municipal governments. I stand with Pasadena 100 - a coalition, comprised of many well-educated and well-intentioned citizens. Together with all of us, I urge you to support a plan for 100% carbon free electricity by 2030 and to not accept the PWP's current IRP as complete, or acceptable for Pasadena's future needs.
I have participated in many of the recent public information events, and have the following comments on PWP's recent submission to the MSC:
1. Per Resolution 9977, PWP's IRP fails to provide anything close to an "optimized" solution. The scenarios, at best, represent extreme assumptions that, in each case are unrealistic. We need to use what we have learned from these scenarios to build a real plan.
2. Re: Financial Impacts (starting on pg 10): We agree that a cost-of-service study is required to ascertain the real financial implications to rate payers, but optimization of the extreme scenarios is required. They each need to incorporate the many additional considerations identified by Pasadena 100 (documented elsewhere). Some additional questions/considerations:
1. How do we eliminate the outstanding balance of the Glenarm bonds by 2030?
2. Pasadena 100 has tried to estimate overall rate impacts resulting from the potential increases to energy charges associated with the current scenarios. PWP needs to do the same.
3. The financial concerns expressed throughout pg 11-14 address future rate challenges, but provide very little in the way of solutions to mitigate these concerns. We are left wondering whether the PWP is adequately equipped to deal with these challenges, or if they even want to.
3. Comparative Benchmark Analysis: It's encouraging to see that the PWP is looking to other CA POU's for comparison. Both SMUD and LADWP appear to have done enough planning/analysis work to be able to define the % zero carbon goal achievable by their current plans. We only wish that PWP was capable of presenting quantifiable options to our City Council so that we can determine the incremental cost impacts of achieving 90% of our target, versus 95%, versus 100%. Instead, the PWP just wants the IRP audience to understand that "this is really hard".
4. Next Steps: PWP's IRP is far from "forward thinking and flexible". Are they recommending that any of scenarios can form the basis of our plans moving forward? Even Scenario 4 appears to ignore adverse gas pricing impacts and is mostly reliant on wind energy, as opposed to more realistic blend of renewables. On pg 16-17, we actually get the first elements of a REAL PLAN, presented as near-term activities, including 100MW of solar capacity and a total of 85MW of battery storage capacity. WHEN 1 will these be undertaken? And THEN what? The additional actions presented in this section need to be progressed ASAP, not just considered. WE NEED A PLAN!!
5. Summary and Recommendation: The PWP has effectively outlined the barriers to progress, but provides no real solution for moving forward, effectively ignoring the City Council request to develop an optimized approach (with real options), and preferring to bask in its GHG reduction progress since 1990, back when our world was very much different than it is today.
Thank you for considering my input.
Shayne Smith, P. Eng.
Shayne Smith, P. Eng.
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Subject:FW: MSC 10/10 Public Comment-Agenda Item 2 - Support for 100% Carbon Free Electricity by 2030
From: heidrun mumper-drumm < >
Sent: Monday, October 9, 2023 9:56 AM
To: Sabha, Tamer <[email protected]>; [email protected] Cc: Williams, Felicia <[email protected]>; Jones, Justin <iustiniones(5)cityofpasadena.net>; Hampton, Tyron <[email protected]>; Lvon, Jason <[email protected]> Subject: MSC 10/10 Public Comment - Agenda Item 2 - Support for 100% Carbon Free Electricity by 2030 CAUTION: This email was delivered from the Internet. Do not click links or open attachments unless you know {he content is safe. Report phish using the Phish Alert Button. Learn more....
City Council Members,
My name is Heidrun Mumper-Drumm, I am a longtime resident of Pasadena, and I urge you to support a plan for 100% carbon free electricity by 2030. Over the 50+ years that I have lived here, I have come to appreciate, and treasure, the unique characteristics of Pasadena. I would like to see my home-city continue, and be a home for other generations as well. I believe that we can do this by taking immediate action to plan for the 100% de-carbonization of electricity.
Moreover, while Pasadena is my home and workplace (and would benefit from this action), it is also part of a global effort to secure a climate future. I would like to see Pasadena take on this challenge and demonstrate its feasibility and necessity so that other cities and regions will follow suit.
Best,
> Prof Heidrun Mumper-Drumm
Academic Director Environmental Initiatives / ArtCenter College of Design Chair / LA'S Chief Sustainability Officer Taskforce
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Subject:FW: Comment for Agenda #2, MSC meeting October 10,2023 From: Kathy Berlin < >
Sent: Monday, October 9, 2023 11:31 AM
To: Stevenson, Garrett <[email protected]>
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Municipal Services Committee,
Please act on the Climate Emergency Resolution passed by the City Council last January. Pasadena must treat the Climate Emergency as an Emergency!
I urge you to require PWP to create a detailed, specific, measurable, plan to achieve 100% renewable energy by 2030. The IRP should include such a plan.
Thank you for your service to the city,
Kathy Berlin
resident
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Subject:FW: MSC 10/10 Public Comment - Agenda Item 2 - Support for 100% Carbon Free Electricity by 2030
From: Gregory Harrison < >
Sent: Monday, October 9, 2023 11:43 AM
To: Sabha, Tamer <[email protected]>; Stevenson, Garrett <[email protected]> Cc: Williams, Felicia <[email protected]>; Jones, Justin <[email protected]>; Hampton, Tyron <[email protected]>; Lyon, Jason <[email protected]> Subject: MSC 10/10 Public Comment - Agenda Item 2 - Support for 100% Carbon Free Electricity by 2030 /!\] CAUTION: This email was delivered from the Internet. Do not click links or open attachments unless you know the content is safe. Report phish using the Phish Alert Button. Learn more....
City Council Members,
My name is Gregory Harrison, I am a resident of district 2, and I urge you to support a plan for 100% carbon free electricity by 2030.
No doubt you are aware of the urgent need for action relating to climate change. In the words of climate scientist Dr Michael Mann, this is "our fragile moment" - and it is not only wise but practical for us to take immediate steps to reduce the carbon pollution from fossil fuels. The shocking rate of change relating to the warming of the planet makes it even more urgent to end our reliance of fossil fuels.
I have been so fortunate to be a dad, and also a science teacher right here in Pasadena. I have spent the last decade learning about and teaching environmental science and specifically climate change. No mission is more urgent to me than the future of our children - including all my students. Our complacency has put their futures in peril. The sooner we act, the sooner we can begin to turn the tide. Our actions now not only begin to heal the atmosphere but also create a more livable, breathable environment.
Thank you,
-Gregory Harrison
Pasadena
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