Pat Showalter
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first heard Oct 2025
last heard 8 Sep
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The kinds of policies that we get set up and can demonstrate here have very global implications.
So that state advocacy is a big deal.
and we have the lobbyists, that's been helpful, and we advocate through Silicon Valley Clean Energy, and we, on the state level, and there's Cal Cities Association, and we, there's also a association of the CCAs, the California Community Choice Aggregation Association, which we just had our 10th anniversary conference last week,
So all of those things are really significant.
Then another thing that's important, because PG&E is responsible for so many of the costs and for the transmission, SVCE, we buy the energy.
So when you look at your energy bill, that the generation is what's,
Silicon Valley Clean Energy, but the transmission and all the other costs, which are pretty major, are PG&Es, and they are regulated through the California Public Utilities Commission.
And we do do some advocacy through that, but that's something I hope that
will be able to step up.
And I know that the California Community Choice Aggregation is working hard on that, but that's another kind of advocacy that's really important on this subject.
And then of course, on the federal front, we wanna be ready to move fast when either the Congress flips
or the administration changes so that these policies that have been reversed can be put back into place quickly and or even better ones.
So I just wanted to mention how really important advocacy is in this situation.
And we do that through NLC and SVCE and our, you know,
And then another thing that I kind of think goes along with thinking about things we can control is how do we communicate to homeowners and small business owners and apartment owners?
And I think one of the things that I hope we're gonna step up is the communications that we do through our neighborhood meetings.
We did that the last time at the last meeting and I think that was really good.
We shared more information about heat pumps and there are people to talk to but I do think that that is an internal resource we have in Mountain View that we could maybe use better.
And then the other thing is I don't think we should have one of these study sessions where we don't say thank you
to Carbon Free Mountain View.
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