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Sam Berndt
Tuesday, December 5, 2023 3:16 PM
Kenebrew, Jerice; Stevenson, Garrett; Sabha, Tamer; Lyon, Jason; Jones, Justin; Williams, Felicia; Hampton, Tyron
MSC 12/5 - Agenda Item 1 - Public Comment - Support for 100% Carbon Free Electricity by 2030
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Members of the Municipal Services Committee,
For nearly two years the City of Pasadena has organized around the goal for 100% carbon free electricity by 2030. In January, the City of Pasadena unanimously adopted a resolution declaring a climate emergency and officially setting this goal.
In September, when PWP presented their draft to the EAC, the EAC recognized that the IRP did not state a plan at all, that the scenarios were intended to be building blocks of a plan, and recommended that PWP reaffirm their intent to achieve the goal & develop a follow on IRP in 2024 to make use of the building block scenarios.
Yet, here we are, on the third iteration of the Municipal Services Committee where PWP is presenting their draft of the IRP that STILL does not specifically state that it is their plan to achieve 100% carbon free electricity by 2030.
In fact, in the IRP it is a goal for 55% carbon free by 2028. In the RPS Procurement and Enforcement Plans it is 60% RPS by 2030. Those are failing grades.
Last meeting, Councilmember Jones, several times, requested PWP show in the document what happens between 2028 and 2030. Councilmembers Hampton and Lyon followed up with this request. This did not happen.
I urge the MSC to send PWP back to update the IRP to explicitly state the plan to get to 100% carbon free electricity by 2030, to show the year-to-year resource procurement through 2030, and request a 2024 Integrated Resource Plan Update to make use of the building block scenarios to optimally achieve this goal.
Thank you.
Sam Berndt
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Tuesday, December 5, 2023 3:23 PM
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Letter comment for MSC Agenda item 1
120523 statement MSC .pdf
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The residents of Pasadena deserve a plan for success. Unfortunately, this document is not that. It is an incomplete document that still, after the expenditure of hundreds of thousands of dollars, isn't a plan at all.
But it's not too late and we can't and won't give up. Councilmembers, the task of making an optimized plan for success must continue through 2024.
We in P100 have identified 6 key issues with this Draft. I will address item 6 on this list.
The Draft contains multiple references* to eliminating or changing the only incentive system that we have for private investment in rooftop solar: NEM.
Investor-owned utilities and fossil fuel companies have been attacking NEM for years. When they have succeeded rooftop solar installations and associated private businesses have tanked. This has no place in this IRP document and should be removed.
Rooftop solar is critical for resilience, demand reduction and power supply. It is not everything in a plan for carbon free electric power, but it is essential.
There is something our City can do right away with minimal cost: a leadership campaign to encourage private investment in rooftop solar. We should solidly back our current strong NEM incentives, public education, marketing, making the process user-friendly, and permitting customers to become generators. *6.1.2 paragraphs 2-9
22.3.6 Addendum p. 317 Section 2
Cynthia Cannady
Resident of Dist. 6 Pasadena
Former STAG member
Pasadena 100
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Tuesday, December 5, 2023 5:04 PM
Kenebrew, Jerice; Stevenson, Garrett; Sabha, Tamer; Lyon, Jason; Jones, Justin; Williams, Felicia; Hampton, Tyron
MSC 12/5 Public Comment - Agenda Item 1 - Support for 100% Carbon Free Electricity by 2030
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Dear City Council Members,
On behalf of public health nonprofit Day One, I would like to amplify the extensive benefits associated with the adoption of clean energy policies.
Generating electricity from low-carbon energy sources and cutting energy demand reduces the need for fossil fuel power generation,
decreasing emissions of harmful gases such as nitrogen oxides, sulfur dioxide, and carbon dioxide.
Item 4 in Pasadena's General Plan Elements states, "Pasadena will be a socially, economically, and environmentally sustainable community.
Safe, we// designed, accessible and human-scale residential and commercial areas will be provided where people of all ages can live, work and play."
Adopting an Integrated Resource Plan that will achieve 100% carbon free electricity by 2030 will safeguard the health, wellness and future of our community.
Thank you,
Christy Zamani,
Day One Executive Director
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