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Presentation on the East Bay Community Energy's Critical Municipal Facilities Program
Staffreport
SUMMARY AND RECOMMENDATIONS
City staff and project design consultants will present to the Committee the proposed concept design options to be shared with the next phase of community outreach.
This item is for information only.
BACKGROUND
East Bay Community Energy (EBCE) exists to provide more renewable energy at competitive rates to our customers. They reinvest the earnings back into the community to create local green energy jobs, local programs, and clean power projects. They supply electricity to all accounts (residential, business, and municipal) and PG&E delivers it to our customers.
In 2018, the County of Alameda and 11 of its cities launched EBCE as a not-for-profit public agency that governs the Community Choice Energy service. The Joint Power Agency expanded in 2021 so that it now includes Albany, Berkeley, Dublin, Emeryville, Fremont, Hayward, Livermore, Newark, Oakland, Piedmont, Pleasanton, San Leandro, Tracy, and Union City. The unincorporated areas of Alameda County including Ashland, Castro Valley, Cherryland, Fairview, San Lorenzo, and Sunol are also served by EBCE.
Processes and decisions are completely transparent, with Board and Community Advisory Committee meetings open to the public. EBCE also has a local team to run day-to-day operations and provide customer support to residents and businesses.
EBCE's local development and innovation programs are designed to deliver benefits across their service area, and the Critical Municipal Facility Resilience Program is designed to support their JPA partners in meeting resilience and climate action goals by providing clean, local backup power at critical municipal facilities.
The Critical Municipal Facility Resilience Program is designed to address barriers faced by Cities in implementing clean energy resilience for backup power by leveraging EBCE expertise in solar and storage and unbur...
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