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From James Spencer
Date Tue 8/25/2026 3:16 PM
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I can't attend today's meeting but did attend the aborted meeting of a couple weeks ago. That left a bad impression on nearly 100 people like me who attended. PWP needs to urgently create a priority for rooftop, and where feasible, hillside solar installations. The best and fastest way to achieve this is to streamline the process for private owners to install them on their properties. Furthermore, the same applies to storage batteries. Without it PWP has no chance of meeting the 100% carbon free power mandate by the citizens and their representatives on the city council.
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The importance of urgent implementation of our city's plan to transition to carbon free electric power by 2030
From Lisa Zeigel
Date Tue 8/25/2026 3:27 PM
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Hello,
I am a Pasadena resident of over 5 years. I experienced the Eaton fire, and although my area was not threatened, the horror of being so close, and knowing many friends and former neighbors were directly affected (I lived in Altadena for over 16 years previously) and then dealing with the aftermath that affected us all whether we lost a home or not. It has been a nightmare and I am in constant fear that something else could happen...another catastrophic event. Floods, fires, tornadoes, wind storms, drought...all of it could happen, and it could be even worse next time. That is why it is of UTMOST URGENCY that we stop using fossil fuels, "dirty" energy, and we have no choice really but to transition to 100% carbon free (solar, wind, etc.) by 2030! It should have been done yesterday...but there should be no question that if we are going to survive and maybe thrive, we have to do this.
I hope you will do the right thing, what all Pasadena residents want.-.clean energy that we can feel good about. It's a vital step to saving us from future disaster! Thank you for considering this. I would be at the meeting tonight if I could but I am writing because I can't. I need my voice to be heard.
Sincerely,
Lisa Zeigel
Lisa G. Zeigel
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August 25, 2026 MSC Meeting Item 3
From Denise Jones
Date Tue 8/25/2026 3:32 PM
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Thank you for the OSP Status Report.
While reviewing the report, multiple questions and possible suggestions were considered. However, I choose to advance just two elements:
1.1 believe a progress report regarding such an important matter of carbon free energy should include, not only descriptions about challenges, but also plans to mitigate those challenges and solutions which would achieve the goal.
2. Regarding the Equity Study, I believe there shaped be a at discussion on ways to bring equity to low income residents who experience the negative impact of carbon energy, especially related to health issues.
Denise Houlemard Jones
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8/25 MSC Mtg - Agenda Item 3 - Comment on PWP Revised Progress Report From p brown
Date Tue 8/25/2026 3:34 PM
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August 24, 2026
Dear Hon. MSC Chair Jones and Council Members:
I am writing concerning PWP's revised Progress Report to the Optimized Strategic Plan (OSP-PR Q 2).
We are in a climate crisis, energy cost crisis, and (at the Federal level) a governance crisis which impedes any successful effort to address the climate and energy cost crises. The City Council's unanimous decision in 2023 to pass Climate Emergency Resolution 9977 was both courageous and wise. And your subsequent decisions in 2025 to approve the Optimized Strategic Plan (OSP), to support the hourly (carbon free) OSP model, and to prioritize its implementation were ethically and practically sound.
Fact-based quarterly progress reports are essential for continued advancement of the City's clean energy goal.
PWP's OSP PR Q2 represents a useful contribution to understanding PWP's progress toward meeting the City's 2030 goal and policy. Yet it, and PWP's recent record, also raise questions about PWP's (and hence Pasadena's) path to 2030.
We are now over two and a half years since the Council's December 2023 action.
Multiple references in the progress report to issues that should have been resolved years or months ago (e.g. the feasibility of solar installation or "review" of Council's decision to permit 150% overbuild for residential solar) are hard to understand. PWP needs to move with the appropriate urgency:
On Municipal Solar, the Council has rightly pressed PWP for action on 20 MW of municipal solar by 2030. Unfortunately, the OSP PR Q2 announces a delay in issuing new RFPs for municipal solar, replacing a specific October target with an undetermined, potentially later deadline. No reason for this delay is given.
The document also refers to continuing analysis of the feasibility of solar installation on municipal properties. This work should have been started months ago. Why is basic information still being addressed (e.g. what buildings need new roofs, where trees may reduce efficiency, etc.). When will this be complete? Why did it take 6 months to issue an RFP for solar installation, an established technology, on city properties that have been inventoried for more than a year?
When finally issued in July, the RFP appears to add non-standard, burdensome and expensive requirements, including that respondents perform their own feasibility study (after the city has done its feasibility study).
It would be helpful if PWP and the OSP PR Q2 addressed reducing cost by doing in- house installation, which has been discussed at MSC meetings and is already being tested in a pilot project managed by the Department of Public Works.
Finally, there remains the critical lack of identification of any funding towards the full 20 MW target.
On Residential Solar, PWP has developed a range of solid incentives toward adoption, but uptake is slow, suggesting the need for more proactive engagement by PWP and City leadership - and Council Members - of the community. Accountability would be helped by including in the quarterly OSP updates the actual number of applications, dates submitted, and number of applications approved.
It is also unclear if operational problems with solar permitting have been resolved.
Given that California offers a free solar permitting program to utilities, and that Pasadena was paid to develop its own system in 2024, this ongoing confusion is difficult to understand.
Finally, there are serious gaps about the strategy - if there is one - for promoting multi- family solar and community solar. Renters make up a majority of Pasadena residents.
Sacramento appears poised to enact SB 868, legislation on balcony solar installations.
What kind of incentives does PWP plan to offer renters, landlords, and condo owners in multi-family buildings to facilitate uptake? Balcony solar, if implemented widely, could make an important contribution to lowering users' utility bills, and toward local generation.
Thank you for the opportunity to raise these questions and concerns.
Respectfully,
PA. Brown
District 6
(Also, member of PASADENA 100)
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Climate action cannot wait!
From Donna Sider
Date Tue 8/25/2026 3:37 PM
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Dear MSC members,
PLEASE hold PWP accountable today. I spoke directly with PWP's director at the cancelled meeting. He needs to LEAD and Implement the plan URGENTLY!
Donna S
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Climate change
From Jessica Richards
Date Tue 8/25/2026 3:37 PM
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Please share with MSC:
We must prioritize efforts to combat climate change, so that Pasadena will be livable decades to come.
This requires transitioning away from fossil fuels and embracing clean green energy as well as the many tools outlined in Pasadena's urban heat island tool document issued in 2021 - reflective surfaces to cool black top, increasing tree canopy both through planting AND maintenance of mature trees.
Given the incredible heat and drought, newly planted trees need more than 3 years of supplemental water to establish. It's frankly a waste to invest in watering for three years to then let the tree die year 4, 5 or 6.
Combating climate change requires a multi factor approach and urgency to act now.
Thank you,
Jessica Richards
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