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CleanPowerSF’s Electrify Your Home Wins Energy Innovation Award
The SFPUC's Electrify Your Home program is only two years old, but it's already making an impact in encouraging customers to replace gas-powered appliances with electric alternatives. For its efforts in developing a new approach and meeting customer and community needs, the CleanPowerSF team was recently recognized at the California Climate & Energy Collaborative Forum with an Energy Innovations & Breakthrough award. This recognition underscores the SFPUC’s commitment to providing reliable and safe electric programs to the San Franciso community.
Bright Ideas Win Big in Student Contest for Clean Energy
An animated video with hand-drawn illustrations. Poems that personified the fog and imagined “the city that we promised to be” by 2040. An essay arguing for public transit that runs on renewable energy and is free for kids.
Hanyang University Engineers Visit SFPUC for Clean Energy Exchange
The San Francisco Public Utilities Commission’s (SFPUC) Power Enterprise recently hosted 20 graduate engineering students and four professors from Hanyang University, one of South Korea's most prestigious research institutions, for a presentation on San Francisco’s clean energy efforts.
CleanPowerSF Marks 10 Years with New Bill Credits to Help Customers Go Electric
SAN FRANCISCO – CleanPowerSF is marking its 10-year anniversary by launching new bill credits to help residents switch to clean, electric home appliances and lower their energy bills.
CleanPowerSF is San Francisco’s community clean electricity program, run by the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission (SFPUC) and serving customers since 2016. It currently powers more than 385,000 homes and businesses.
Lights, Camera, Clean Energy! Students Share Their Creativity in CleanPowerSF Contest
Students are charging up their creativity to participate in the first ever CleanPowerSF Climate and Clean Energy High School Video and Writing Contest. CleanPowerSF is celebrating 10 years of providing clean energy to San Francisco, and as part of the anniversary, the team is inviting young creators to share their vision for a brighter future.
How Edith Clarke Broke Barriers and Balanced Loads for the Modern Power Grid
The electrical grid that we know today might not be possible without Edith Clarke. The first female electrical engineering professor in the US, she invented the Clarke calculator, a graphing calculator that enabled engineers to solve equations involving electric current, voltage, and impedance 10 times faster than by hand.
CleanPowerSF Issues Request For Offers: Disadvantaged Communities Green Tariff
The Disadvantaged Communities Green Tariff (Re-bid) (PUC.PRO.0223(R), Request for Offers (“RFO”), seeks to purchase energy and associated Environmental Attributes, Capacity Attributes, (and Resource Adequacy capacity, if available) from new Eligible Renewable Energy Resources located within 5 miles of an eligible Disadvantaged Communities for CleanPowerSF, San Francisco's Community Choice Aggregation program.
Moody’s Ratings Upgrades CleanPowerSF to A1, Recognizing the Strength of San Francisco’s Public Power Program
SAN FRANCISCO — Moody’s Ratings has upgraded the credit rating for San Francisco’s CleanPowerSF community choice energy program to A1 from A2, with a stable outlook. The upgrade reflects CleanPowerSF’s stronger cash reserves, steady financial management, and the program’s ability to adjust rates in a changing energy market. CleanPowerSF also has no outstanding debt.
San Francisco Public Utilities Commission Approves Unprecedented 20% to 25% Reduction in CleanPowerSF Electricity Supply Rates
SAN FRANCISCO – The San Francisco Public Utilities Commission (SFPUC) approved an unprecedented reduction in its CleanPowerSF electricity rates, cutting generation charges by 20% to 25%. The rate cuts will take effect March 1.
CleanPowerSF proposes to lower rates by 20-25%
With winter in full swing, many of us are hunkering down indoors and using more electricity to power our homes and businesses. Unfortunately, during this time when we need clean energy most, PG&E is significantly increasing customer costs. That’s why CleanPowerSF is taking action to lower our generation rates by 20-25% to offset PG&E’s increased costs and provide stability for our customers.