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File Number: 21-497 <br />Current Agency Policies <br />The recent adoption of the City’s 2050 Climate Action Plan includes the following implementation <br />action item: <br />·RE-1 Encourage San Leandro households and businesses to switch from PG&E <br />electricity supplies to East Bay Community Energy and commit to defaulting to Renewable <br />100 tier for 100-percent renewable energy. <br />Committee Review and Actions <br />Consideration of this action was presented to the City Council Facilities & Transportation <br />Committee at its September 1, 2021 meeting. As submittal of this report predated that meeting, a <br />verbal update of the Committee’s discussion will be presented at the Council Meeting. <br />Summary of Public Outreach Efforts <br />With the first group of cities starting implementation in January, EBCE held an initial coordination <br />meeting with staff of all the member cities in mid-August to discuss public outreach. It is intended <br />that customer communications will include the two notifications that are required by EBCE’s <br />Change Policy. Additional outreach and communications will be determined based on individual <br />coordination with each city’s staff. With the first cohort being ahead of San Leandro, staff hopes <br />to learn what worked in the other jurisdictions to help shape San Leandro’s specific outreach. If <br />San Leandro adheres to the March/October schedule in EBCE’s Change Policy, there will be no <br />cost outlay (other than staff time) for public outreach. <br />Fiscal Impacts <br />The proposed default Renewable 100 rate represents a one cent/kWh increase, or about a 4-6% <br />increase, depending upon the rate class. Based on 2019 data for an average EBCE E1 Rate <br />Schedule, for a residential customer consuming 359 kWh/month, the switch from Bright Choice to <br />Renewable 100 will cost an average $4.02/month as compared to Bright Choice, and $3.49 <br />more than PG&E’s basic service rate. <br />Based on 2019 data for an average EBCE A1 Rate Schedule, for a business customer <br />consuming 1,518 kWh/month, the switch from Bright Choice to Renewable 100 will cost an <br />average $17 more per month as compared to Bright Choice, and $15 more than PG&E’s basic <br />service rate. <br />For the approximate 260 municipal accounts, which range from irrigation clocks and street lights <br />to all public buildings, the City’s energy consultant, DERNetSoft, provided an analysis of the <br />potential impacts of both the rate structure changes recently implemented by both PG&E and <br />EBCE, as well as the fiscal impacts related to opting up the municipal accounts to Renewable <br />100. Due to the anomalies of 2020, data from 2019 was utilized for comparison. <br />Page 4 City of San Leandro Printed on 9/2/2021 <br />496