Pat Showalter
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first heard Sep 2023
last heard 8 Sep
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On May 13th and 14th, I attended the 10th anniversary of the California Community Choice Aggregation Association Conference in Sacramento.
And there was lots of discussion about how much generation has been added in the last 10 years with the CCA movement.
in California, how much clean energy generation.
It's really quite remarkable and it's expected to move up.
There was also a lot of discussion about possible load growth.
The electrical load in most of the country has been pretty static for the last two or three decades, but that's not expected to move up.
It's expected to go up quite a bit based on data centers and AI use.
At this conference, the general opinion of the speakers was that data centers will be a good thing because they'll buy more energy and that will spread out the costs of operating the transmission
network some and will help affordability for most of us a little bit.
We'll see if that happens.
But it will require that local governments collaborate with developers and make sure that the data centers are built properly and with water-saving
features and various things.
Anyway, so that was pretty interesting.
Then that evening, we had the Grant-Silvan neighborhood meeting.
And I was there and, oh, Council Member McAllister's gonna talk.
I'm just gonna say that I was there
Lorenzo Lopez won the competition for answering the most questions.
And then the other thing I wanted to share is that on May 21st, I attended a Bosca meeting and I shared our experience with the Cuesta-Watermain incident and thanked everyone for the extensive mutual aid that we received.
And it was suggested that our staff might give a report on lessons learned to the staff members that get together on a monthly basis, maybe sometime in the next year or so.
And then on May 22nd, I went to a Silicon Valley,
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