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Attachment 1 RESOLUTION NO. 21- A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF PLEASANTON EXPRESSING SUPPORT FOR EXPANDING STATEWIDE ACCESS TO ROOFTOP SOLAR THROUGH A SUCCESSOR NET ENERGY METERING 3.0 PROGRAM WHEREAS, the City of Pleasanton is a member of the East Bay Community Energy Authority (EBCE), which was formed as a community choice aggregation agency on December 1, 2016; and WHEREAS, the City wishes to express its support for a Resolution of the East Bay Community Energy Authority supporting a Regulated Net Energy Metering (NEM) Program that encourages clean energy distributed generation and helps meet vital clean energy and climate goals as adopted by the EBCE Board of Directors at a special meeting on December 3, 2021, that states: WHEREAS, Net Energy Metering (NEM) is designed to encourage and support the installation of customer -sited, behind -the -meter renewable energy generation in order to reduce emissions of heat -trapping greenhouse gases and bolster a clean energy economy; and WHEREAS, NEM allows customers to receive bill credits for power generated by their solar system and shared with the power grid and ultimately save money on their electricity utility bills, which also over time helps reduce costs to the power grid; and WHEREAS, NEM is what has helped behind -the -meter solar become increasingly accessible to lower income households; and WHEREAS, Assembly Bill 327 (Chapter 611, statutes of 2013 as amended) includes a sub -section that directs the California Public Utilities Commission to adopt a NEM policy that ensures solar distributed generation will continue "to grow sustainably and include specific alternatives designed for growth among residential customers in disadvantaged communities."; and WHEREAS, the CPUC should consider the avoided transmission, distribution and generation costs in its analysis of the costs and benefits of rooftop solar; and WHEREAS, California is much less likely to adequately meet its 2030 and 2045 clean energy goals in time with utility scale solar alone and needs to substantially increase the amount of rooftop solar and associated storage, as reported by the California Energy Commission 2021 SB 100 Joint Agency Report Summary; and WHEREAS, customer -sited solar distributed generation leads to overall savings on future transmission costs in California; and