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Community Choice Aggregation Feasibility Analysis Alameda County • Advanced controls for lighting and platforms that integrate advanced building information& energy management systems. • Increased use of over 50 market ready funding and financing products that can be used to implement sustainability projects in all market sectors. • High Opportunity Programs and Projects (HOPPs) being submitted in response to AB802, such as the Residential Pay-for-Performance HOPP being proposed by PG&E may provide an opportunity to drive higher participation Property Assessed Clean Energy(PACE)programs currently operating throughout Alameda County. CCA Supplies The CCA's primary function is to procure supplies to meet the electrical loads of its customers. This requires balancing energy supply and demand on an hourly basis. It also requires procuring generating capacity(i.e. the ability to provide energy when needed) to ensure that customer loads can be met reliably.2' In addition to simply meeting the energy and capacity needs of its customers, the CCA must meet other procurement objectives. By law, the CCA must supply a certain portion of its sales to customers from eligible renewable resources. This Renewable Portfolio Standard(RPS), requires 33% renewable energy supply by 2020, increasing to 50%by 2030. The CCA may choose to source a greater share of its supply from renewable sources than the minimum requirements, or may seek to otherwise reduce the environmental impact of its supply portfolio. The CCA may also use its procurement function to meet other objectives, such as sourcing a portion of its supply from local projects to promote economic development in the county. The Alameda County CCA would be taking over these procurement responsibilities from PG&E for those customers who do not opt out of the CCA to remain bundled customers of PG&E. To retain customers, the CCA's offerings and rates must compete favorably with those of PG&E. The CCA's specific procurement objectives, and its strategy for meeting those objectives, will be determined by the CCA through an implementation plan, startup activities and ongoing management of the CCA. The purpose of this study is to assess the feasibility of establishing a CCA to serve Alameda County based on a forecast of costs and benefits. This forecast requires making certain assumptions about how the CCA will operate and the objectives it will pursue. To address the uncertainty associated with these assumptions, we have evaluated three different supply scenarios and have generally made conservative assumptions about the ways in which the CCA would meet the objectives discussed above. In no way does this study prescribe actions to be taken by the CCA should one be established. The three supply scenarios that we considered are: 21 The California Public Utilities Commission(CPUC)requires that load serving entities like CCAs demonstrate that they have procured resource adequacy capacity to meet at least 115%of their expected peak load. Since Alameda falls within the Greater Bay Area Local Reliability Area,it must also meet its share of local resource adequacy requirements. July,2016 6 MRW&Associates,LLC