San Francisco Community Power

SF Community Power pilots innovative programs that improve our neighborhoods' environmental and economic conditions. We help small businesses and low-income families lower their expenses and reduce their ecological footprint. Our work provides policy makers with demonstrative ways to solve complex resource allocation issues.

CURRENT PROGRAMS

Climate for Community - Local Solutions for Climate Change

Our climate change initiative helps small businesses and low-income families reduce their carbon footprint. Participants in this pilot program save money, reduce their greenhouse gas emissions and transition to using more sustainable products. The program also provides policymakers with a demonstration program that could point to cost-effective ways of addressing the equity issues associated with global climate change.

Demand Response — More than $105,000 in Payments in 2009!

Our Demand Response Energy Alert program pays small and medium-sized Bay Area businesses to reduce their electricity use during peak periods, when demand is especially high. The program helps the state avoid blackouts and reduces reliance on the most polluting power plants. This FREE program provides a sustainable way to manage your energy use at a time of rising energy costs.

California Alternative Rates for Energy (CARE) Program

If you or your family are low-income you may qualify for a 20 percent reduction in your PG&E bill. Click above link for more information. At the request of SF Power, in early 2010 the California Legislature drafted legislation to authorize a CARE pilot .

SF Power is trying to secure a sponsor for the bill. SF Power is examining whether allowing families to use this subsidy to invest in energy-saving measures would provide even greater utility bill savings, while reducing polluting air and greenhouse gas emissions, and lowering the overall cost of the CARE program. If you have any questions contact SF Power at 415.643.9578.

By the end of 2010 the Potrero Power Plant will join the Hunters Point Power Plant, which was closed in 2006, to become a dirty relic of the past. SF Community Power was founded in 2001 in part to shutter these facilities, which were among the oldest and dirtiest in the state, and San Francisco's largest stationary sources of air pollution. Working with other community groups and city leaders, our advocacy efforts succeeded. Welcome to the new energy era!

Neighborhood Newswire — Community-Based Journalism

The Neighborhood Newswire provides high-quality articles to community newspapers in the San Francisco Bay Area.