Report to Mayor and City Council
Monday, April 08, 2019
Discussion
SUBJECT:
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CLEAN POWER ALLIANCE RATES/BENEFITS/RESIDENT CONCERNS (CITY COUNCIL)
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I. SUMMARY
Staff will provide an oral presentation on Clean Power Alliance of Southern California’s (CPA) Phase 3 enrollment of 25,185 eligible residential accounts in the City of Carson.
The companion report for Item No. 3 on this agenda describes CPA’s challenges and Board action in the face of Southern California Edison’s recent rate increase to recover and $825 million “underpayment” from customers in 2018. This has affected CPA’s own rate structure in order to continue providing contractually required reductions from SCE rates.
II. RECOMMENDATION
Recommendation
1. DISCUSS and PROVIDE Direction.
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III. ALTERNATIVES
1. Do not Discuss and Provide Direction.
2. TAKE another action the City Council deems appropriate and consistent with the requirements of the law
IV. BACKGROUND
CPA, a joint powers authority with 31 member agencies across Los Angeles and Ventura Counties, was established in 2017 to provide cost competitive electric services, reduce electric sector greenhouse gas emissions, stimulate renewable energy development, implement distributed energy resources, promote energy efficiency and demand reduction programs, and sustain long-term rate stability for residents and businesses through local control.
CPA will serve approximately one million customer accounts at the end of the phased enrollment period as shown below:
Phase 1 - Service began in January 2018 for municipal customers in unincorporated Los Angeles County.
Phase 2 - Service began in June 2018 for commercial customers in unincorporated Los Angeles County, and for municipal and commercial customers in Rolling Hills Estates and South Pasadena.
Phase 3 - Service began in February 2019 for all residential customers within Clean Power Alliance service territory.
Phase 4 - In May 2019, service will be expanded to all remaining non-residential customers within Clean Power Alliance service territory.
In the coming months CPA staff will be focusing additional outreach efforts on future business customers, planning for deployment of local programs, negotiating power purchase agreements to expand the supply of renewable energy in California, and ensuring that the needs and priorities of its communities are well represented in a rapidly evolving electricity market.
V. FISCAL IMPACT
None.
VI. EXHIBITS
1. Carson’s Customer Status Report - March 26, 2019 (pg. 3).
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Prepared by: Reata Kulcsar, Sustainability Administrator