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renewable portfolio. EBCE's customer base of 550,000 provides stability and enables EBCE to pursue favorable long-term efficiency initiatives and PPAs. Part of EBCE's stated mission is to reinvest revenue back into the community. They focus on clean power projects, local energy jobs, and local energy efficiency programs. The JPA agreement states that EBCE needs to develop a Local Development Business Plan (LDBP). In the LDBP, EBCE lays out athree-stage, 5 -year local development plan. Stage 1 consists of launching programs such as Net Energy Metering (NEM) and a Demand Response (DR) pilot. Stage 2 looks to expand on the projects and pilots started in Stage 1. Lastly, Stage 3 provides for an LDBP update that includes determining the success of the LDBP and examining new avenues to advance and explore. In short, this document has many initiatives that look to benefit the local community. There are many initiatives and funding opportunities laid out in the LDBP that staff believes can help with the City of Pleasanton's Climate Action Plan goals. Similar to PG&E's programs, EBCE is rolling out Peak Day Pricing (PDP) and Net Energy Metering (NEM) programs. EBCE and PG&E's PDP programs are both mutually beneficial optional programs that offer business owners a discount on their electric rates in exchange for higher prices on critical days, typically on the hottest days of the summer. Essentially, if a business owner does not use as much energy on peak days, they will save money on their energy bill because of the rest of the season's discounted rates. This is beneficial for the energy suppliers because their energy supply does not reach a critical limit on peak days. EBCE conducted a pilot in 2018 and are now enrolling a PDP program across the board for businesses. There are some differences between PG&E's and EBCE's PDP programs: PG&E assesses how well each business has conserved on peak days on a monthly basis. If the business does use a lot of energy on peak day pricing days, they will see an additional charge on their bill. This is more of acarrot-and-stick approach. EBCE charges customers at their normal rates, and once the peak days are over in the fall, they conduct usage analysis. If the businesses reduce their energy use during peak days, they receive a credit for their future electricity bill. If the customer does not reduce their energy consumption, they are not charged an additional cost. It is risk-free for the customer and takes apositive-reinforcement approach to encourage them to reduce their usage during peak days. However, there are no penalties for not conserving energy during peak days. Net Energy Metering is a billing system that credits customers at the full retail electric price for any excess electricity they generate and sell to their local electric company via the grid from on-site small sources such as residential rooftop solar arrays. EBCE's NEM program is an automatic enrollment. The switch -over is dependent on the customer's True -Up date with PG&E (i.e., what month they began their NEM service with PG&E). If an NEM customer in either EBCE or PG&E puts more energy onto the grid than they use, they are given a credit worth the retail price of the energy they use. Page 12 of 20