City Council
MEETING DATE: 7/26/2017
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Joint Powers Agreement to Implement a Community Choice Aggregation Program
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FROM:
Charlie McClendon, City Manager
RECOMMENDATION:
Recommendation
Staff recommends the City Council introduce and provide first reading by title only an ordinance authorizing implementation of a Community Choice Aggregation program and approving the Desert Cities Energy Choice Joint Powers Agreement.
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BACKGROUND:
A Community Choice Aggregation (CCA) program enables city and/or county governments to pool the electricity demand of multiple communities for the purpose of supplying electricity. A CCA creates an economy of scale, buying and/or developing power on behalf of the residents, business, and government electricity users. Electricity continues to be distributed and delivered over existing electricity lines owned by a jurisdiction's investor-owned utility, in the case of Cathedral City, Southern California Edison. CCAs often result in competitive electrical generation rates, provide local control with respect to energy supply, and can promote increased provision of electricity from renewable sources and competition in the energy market, depending upon choices made. The Coachella Valley Association of Governments' (CVAG) Executive Committee considered this item on June 26, 2017. CVAG is now requesting that member cities consider the joint powers agreement that will establish a joint powers agency that will establish a CCA implemented and administered by the joint powers agency, "Desert Cities Energy Choice," whether by that name or an alternative name that emerges for the joint powers agency that will administer and implement the CCA program for the Coachella Valley. This agenda item provides the City Council the opportunity to take the action requested by CVAG.
The City Council has previously held two study sessions on November 30, 2016 and on June 14, 2017 to discuss Community Choice Aggregation. In add...
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