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San Mateo City Council
June 16, 2025
Who We Are…
• San Mateo Climate Action Team
• Aligned with 350 Silicon Valley
• Seniors and youth, and just ordinary
people
2 We Are Running Out of Time!!
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change: World can emit GHG at current rate for only 5 years before Inflection Point! 3 ⮚ San Mateo is a national leader, through
hard work, and City Leadership
⮚Peninsula Clean Energy provides clean
electrical energy and can handle future
loads.
⮚PCE offers a wider range than ever, of
assistance to income qualified, and
market rate customers.
⮚The cost of electrical installation is
approaching parity with gas
replacements.
CLIMATE ACTION IN OUR COMMUNITY
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We Support All 5 Options in the
Decarbonization Study
1. BAU: Reach Codes for New Construction
2. Reach Codes for Renovations
3. Accelerated nitrous oxides (NOx) standards
4. Building Performance Standards - Commercial Buildings
5. Electric First Policy for City Buildings
Programs from PCE
• Gas equipment fails - Be Prepared!
• Direct install of all new electric
equipment to replace gas – free to
income qualified
• One stop concierge service to provide
support and coaching
• Emergency hot water heaters
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Electrification Costs* At Parity With Gas!
• Heat pump water heater
• Sample size: 1,499 PCE projects Jan ‘21 to Apr 2025
• HPWH cost after rebates and tax credits $ 2,533
• Typical gas water heater replacement (tank): $ 2,500 - $ 3,500 • Typical gas water heater replacement (tankless): $ 5,200 • Heat pump HVAC
• Sample size: 1,691 PCE projects Oct ‘22 to Apr 2025
• Heat Pump HVAC cost after rebates & tax credits: $13,800 • Typical gas furnace replacement with AC $16,000
• Typical gas furnace replacement w/o AC $ 6,800
*Not including electrical upgrades
8 Free electric appliances
• Eligibility: income-
qualified homeowner
• Free electric appliances
+ minor home repairs
Free electric appliances
11 For renters
1.EVs and EBikes
2.Portable heat pumps, 110 Volts, transportable
3.Portable induction cooktops, 110 Volts, transportable
4.Assistance with utility bill payments
5.EV multi family charging stations thru PCE
BAY AREA AIR DISTRICT RULES 9.4 AND 9.6
● Bay Area Air District has adopted rules under the Clean Air Act, that prevent replacing gas water heaters with gas, and gas furnaces with gas, effective January 1, 2027, and 2029
● Air District has NOT asked for inclusion in the State Implementation Plan, for concern about being disallowed under the current Administration
● South Coast Air Quality Management District (SCAQMD) had taken a “market” approach, but has now rejected that
approach.
Assembly Bill 306 - THE END OF REACH CODES
● Places 6 year “temporary” moratorium on new Reach Codes - including AC2HP, and Retrofits; effective June 1, 2025 October 1, 2025, and only if following a building code other than the normal state process
● Ostensibly for the purpose of speeding housing rebuild in Los Angeles, after fires
● This is an Assembly Speaker Bill
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THANK YOU