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DRAFT 10. Energy Element residences following a collaborative process with the development community Section 17 50 040 of the Pleasanton Municipal Code reduixes its use fox building residences. Pleasanton has continued fine-tuning its green building~xogram and is currently working on a Solar Cities Program, jointly with the City of Livermore, that will consider additional green-building practices. This program will consider standardized solar-energy-svstem-installation designs for residences and potentially for businesses. By standardizing designs within a larger geographic area both cities expect economies of scale that might encourage more future green-building implementation. Fire Station 4, which opened in 2005. is the only fire station in the United States to achieve a LEED1"` Gold Certification It incorporates many green-building ideas including a photovoltaic system that produces electrical energy, recycled and sustainable building materials and landscaping that creates a more environmentally friendly system for managing rainwater. ei~- ~---'- °° In addition. the Pleasanton Unified School District is partnering with Honeywell to install solar panels on the roofs of seven schools in the District. These panels. which are scheduled to be installed by the end of 2007, will supply abut 2020 percent of the District's electrical needs. Energy from these panels will cost 25 percent less than energy from PG&E. The Alameda County Fairground installed aphoto-voltaic (solar-power) svstem that produces about 1 200 megawatt hours of electricity annually and provides about 50 percent of the electricity consumed at the Fairgrounds. PG&E paid for half of the X4.6 million project Green building is indicative of Pleasanton's efforts to plan for sustainability so that many generations can enjoy a high duality of life. See the Green Building section of the Community Character Flement as well as the Sustainable Development and Planning section of the Air Quality Element for further discussion of green building; Community_Choice Aggregation In 2002, the State passed ~flssembly Bill 197 which allows local governments, cities, and counties to become Community Choice Aggregators (CCAs) by giving local governments, cities, and counties the authority to combine the electrical load of their residents, businesses, and municipal facilities in an electricity buyers' program._ Under this bill, the investor-owned utility, in Pleasanton's case PG&E, would still provide transmission and distribution services. If the City chooses to become a Community Choice Aggregator, it would procure a power supply for distribution to all classes of electricity customers within the City limits and it would set the rate structure fox participants in the pxogxam._ There would be an opportunity for ratepayers to opt out of the program and revert to service by PG&E. Some benefits of becoming a CCA may include more local control over Pleasanton's energy supply portfolio and energy rates. Energy redline copy per PC, OS 07 10-6 Ciy Council 6/5/07