Pat Showalter
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first heard Sep 2023
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People walk up and down, they bike up and down, they do exercise along that corridor and it really is a park.
So that's very appropriate and I think it makes the numbers more realistic and that's good.
So I wanted to thank you for all those things
I'm very proud to move this, that we accept this plan.
It adopts the plan with the addition of the native terminology will be referred to the urban forestry plan.
Is that what you said?
That's what you suggested, isn't it?
Yes, yes, that's a much better way of saying it, please.
Yes, spent a busy couple weeks.
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
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