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2. Direct staff to initiate a timeline of formal actions by the City Council to achieve this objective in calendar year 2021. FINANCIAL STATEMENT Adoption of the actions contained herein will not result in any costs to the City. There, however, will be costs and staff time associated with initiating this effort and conducting public outreach for the rollout of EBCE. Staff anticipates augmenting EBCE public information activities with internal resources, including staff coordination and City - sponsored public information materials. BACKGROUND Assembly Bill (AB) 117, the Community Choice Aggregation Law, passed in September 2002, after the California electricity crisis of 2000 and 2001 that resulted in statewide electricity shortages and extensive price fluctuations. AB 117 allows local governments to administer energy efficiency programs using funds collected from electric ratepayers and allows local governments to purchase wholesale electricity to service its citizens and businesses. This bill is intended to force investor-owned utilities (IOUs) to compete for electricity customers' business, and, through this competition, to compel CCAs and IOUs to invest in greener energy than the California Renewables Portfolio Standards (RPS) requires. In September 2006, AB 32 established a statewide goal to lower GHG emissions to 1990 levels by 2020. The City of Pleasanton adopted a Climate Action Plan (CAP) in 2012 with GHG reduction targets consistent with AB 32. The City is beginning the process to draft a CAP 2.0 with even more aggressive GHG reduction targets by 2030 and beyond. EBCE was established in October 2016, in accordance with AB 117, by Alameda County, Albany, Berkeley, Dublin, Emeryville, Fremont, Hayward, Livermore, Oakland, Piedmont, San Leandro, and Union City. Commercial and municipal customers began receiving EBCE's electricity in June 2018, and residential customers began in November 2018. EBCE purchases the electricity for its customers and partners with PG&E who delivers the power, maintains the grid, and handles billing. EBCE is anot-for-profit joint powers authority (JPA) run by board members from each participating jurisdiction and has a Community Advisory Committee (CAC) that has a seat at the board's table and represents the community. All profit is to be reinvested back into the local community (in this case Countywide) to create jobs, programs, and power projects. The City of Pleasanton has been studying CCAs since AB 117's passage. In February 2010, the City of Pleasanton's consultant, Energy Solutions, developed the Energy Efficiency Conservation Strategy.' Community Choice Aggregation. In June 2016, Environmental Science Associates further investigated the feasibility of joining a CCA in Alameda County. The City also was a member of the Steering Committee for the formation of EBCE. In October 2016, City Council decided not to join EBCE. Staff was directed to evaluate EBCE's operations for one year before making a recommendation to Council to join (or not) the community choice program. Page 2 of 4