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RESOLUTION NO. 21-1262 <br /> A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF PLEASANTON <br /> EXPRESSING SUPPORT FOR EXPANDING STATEWIDE ACCESS TO <br /> ROOFTOP SOLAR THROUGH A SUCCESSOR NET ENERGY METERING 3.0 <br /> PROGRAM <br /> WHEREAS, the City of Pleasanton is a member of the East Bay Community <br /> Energy Authority (EBCE), which was formed as a community choice aggregation agency <br /> on December 1, 2016; and <br /> WHEREAS, the City wishes to express its support for a Resolution of the East Bay <br /> Community Energy Authority supporting a Regulated Net Energy Metering (NEM) <br /> Program that encourages clean energy distributed generation and helps meet vital clean <br /> energy and climate goals as adopted by the EBCE Board of Directors at a special meeting <br /> on December 3, 2021, that states: <br /> WHEREAS, Net Energy Metering (NEM) is designed to encourage and support <br /> the installation of customer-sited, behind-the-meter renewable energy generation in order <br /> to reduce emissions of heat-trapping greenhouse gases and bolster a clean energy <br /> economy; and <br /> WHEREAS, NEM allows customers to receive bill credits for power generated by <br /> their solar system and shared with the power grid and ultimately save money on their <br /> electricity utility bills, which also over time helps reduce costs to the power grid; and <br /> WHEREAS, NEM is what has helped behind-the-meter solar become increasingly <br /> accessible to lower income households; and <br /> WHEREAS, Assembly Bill 327 (Chapter 611, statutes of 2013 as amended) <br /> includes a sub-section that directs the California Public Utilities Commission to adopt a <br /> NEM policy that ensures solar distributed generation will continue "to grow sustainably <br /> and include specific alternatives designed for growth among residential customers in <br /> disadvantaged communities."; and <br /> WHEREAS, the CPUC should consider the avoided transmission, distribution and <br /> generation costs in its analysis of the costs and benefits of rooftop solar; and <br /> WHEREAS, California is much less likely to adequately meet its 2030 and 2045 <br /> clean energy goals in time with utility scale solar alone and needs to substantially increase <br /> the amount of rooftop solar and associated storage, as reported by the California Energy <br /> Commission 2021 SB 100 Joint Agency Report Summary; and <br /> WHEREAS, customer-sited solar distributed generation leads to overall savings <br /> on future transmission costs in California; and <br />