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Today, because of the leading development of the policy by Paul Fenn and the design work of Local Power, California CCAs are localizing their energy supplies using our innovations, such as contracting for local renewable projects, innovative strategies for energy efficiency, virtual power plants, and customer ownership with on-bill financing arrangements. LPI continues to advocate and develop this bolder, scaled, accelerated and enduring approach to CCA and has won a significant following for its approach in the process, with more and more CCAs defining their purpose in terms of the benefits of physical localization: green jobs, substantial and permanent greenhouse gas reductions, and customer ownership. Local Power drafted CCA legislation for New York State in 2014, and has been working with state regulators and the New York State Energy Research & Development Authority (NYSERDA) since Governor Cuomo subsequently issued an executive order authorizing CCA as a new platform for Distributed Energy Resources.

 

The Detailed Work of Real Localization

 

Growing nationwide interest in CCA is increasingly focused on physical localization in order to create more "real" benefits than greener energy supply or cheaper rates, such as local economic development, green jobs, and enduring greenhouse gas reductions, and even the Marin Energy Authority, which initially resisted this path, has adopted it as of 2014, and the same year three other CCAs had received Green Community awards from the Environmental Protection Agency.When Local Power shifted its focus to implementation in early 2000s, intervening with California Public Utilities Commission in 2004, and winning regulatory approval of full data access for CCAs to create models for energy localization, the company was as a result retained by Sonoma County to collect and analyze one of the first detailed Big Energy Data projects outside the utility space in the United States. Between 2011 and 2013 Local Power completed its CCA 2.0 program design for the City of San Francisco's CleanPowerSF program, preparing a business plan for the City to issue $1B in Solar Bonds to build a 25% localized energy system in five years, purchasing 100% renewable energy while maintaining rate parity with PG&E, and generating a $600M surplus in the tenth year of service. Since this, much of the 2.0 model has been realized in California.

 

Nationwide, as CCA has grown from just a few municipalities to over a thousand municipalities, Local Power has acted as Research & Development arm of the CCA movement, using CCA access to end-user data to create regional energy localization cost/financial models, and to prepare local governments like Sonoma County and San Francisco for their "soft landing" to implement city and countywide energy localizations and greenhouse gas reductions at rate parity or lower rates than incumbent utilities.

 

Today, with so many Americans living within CCAs, including well-known population centers like City of San Francisco and Cincinnati, rural areas like Sonoma County as well as many hundreds of less known small towns and rural counties, Local Power's CCA 3.0 Report has articulated a new local energy transition business model to implement municipally-run climate mobiliziations, through a "three dimensional" strategy that integrates electric vehicles and HVAC/hot water installations to augment widespread deployments of renewable microgrids. 

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In New York State, Local Power's community energy model consists of separate but parallel and complementary municipal program "rails" to form a clear local community path while keeping CCA electricity and gas supply costs and materials separate but linked for informational purposes. 

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Under municipally authorized DER Plans, Local Power's Tompkins Green Energy Network (T-GEN) is launching a "universal renewable shares" option for any energy users in the community, providing sites, onsite power off-takers and logistical and billing support for customer "advanced DER" cooperatives. Local Power is also engaging municipal governments to participate alongside neighborhoods - a community wide redevelopment process based on voluntary investments by energy users through a much more engaged OP-IN process that will be undertaken separately from legally but complementing an energy transition program called "Own Your Power.

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The CCA program is authorized by the New York State Public Service Commission. The other program, being OPT-IN, is authorized  by Municipal Local laws. 

 

Designed to be implemented with smaller, more focused agencies than are required in California's CCA 2.0 (central generation) paradigm, Local Power LLC's new model for energy, involving these two separate but complementary activities to organize a local community wide energy transition, expands the technological horizon of potential regional decarbonization (how fast and how far climate action is possible), and we believe will exponentially expand the voluntary customer investment horizon as well, in this localization, for a maximum, sustained carbon impact on a magnitude and schedule beyond the pace of current markets, regulation or conventional municipal policy: a magnitude and schedule that is indeed commensurate with the United Nation's ten-year (2030) horizon for the worldwide transformation of energy in order to avert "irreversible damage to the earth's ecology," not to mention other destructive energy pathways out there in 2026.