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Community Meeting: Learn more about Community Choice Energy
Los Altos City Council will be considering whether to join a group of neighboring cities planning to form a Community Choice Energy
In early 2016, the Los Altos City Council will be considering whether to join a group of neighboring cities planning to form a Community Choice Energy agency here in Silicon Valley. To learn more, please attend an informational meeting being sponsored by the Silicon Valley Community Choice Energy Partnership on Wednesday, January 13, 2016 at 6:30 p.m. at the Los Altos Youth Center, 1 N. San Antonio Road, Los Altos.
Come to a community meeting to learn more and discuss:
- how best to balance electricity costs with increased levels of renewable power and decreased greenhouse gas emissions
- how to incorporate consumer-owned solar into the energy mix
- your role in helping our communities reduce our carbon footprints
What is Community Choice Energy (CCE)?
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California state policy allows city and county governments to form a local non-profit ‘Community Choice Energy’ agency to pool electricity demand within and across their communities. The new CCE agency then competitively purchases energy on behalf of participating residents and businesses within these communities. Under Community Choice, the local investor-owned utility (PG&E in our case) continues to maintain responsibility for transmission and distribution of power, and for customer service and billing functions. Energy bills continue to come from PG&E, but list the CCE as the provider of electricity generation.
More information is available at http://www.losaltosca.gov/community/page/sv-clean-energy-partnership-com....