Raj Chahal

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Santa Clara City Council · City Council and Authorities Concurrent on 2026-01-27 6:00 PM - Jan 27, 2026 · 27 Jan 2026 meeting

So what can we do to increase the solar footprint within our jurisdiction, basically?

Those are my requests and questions.

Thank you, and I was in Sacramento yesterday, so I'll give my report at the end of our regular meeting, and I think Director touched some of those points, but I'll also give those points.

Thank you.

So on that front, when residents are upgrading, let's say they're adding some square footage and they're upgrading their HVAC systems, are they also eligible for these rebates?

So I was at Sacramento yesterday, came back today, for NCPA Capital Day, and that's basically NCPA's role with all the different cities, public utilities, they, under their umbrella, they basically lobby to their legislatures for

streamlining the operations or whatever their demands are.

Some of the main issues were affordability, like we have with Director Nikko did touch that affordability part of it.

And within affordability, big part comes to be the fire claims.

Those are big issues with all the utilities, PG&E or public utilities.

Eleven states have passed reasonable fire liability reforms.

California has not done that, so we are pressing hard, NCPA and all the cities are pressing hard, California legislatures to pass a common sense fire liability reform on that.

That's one then we have a 100% hydrogen ready plant in Lodi which The federal funding has been cut off and state is also Not cooperative on that So that was another demand that if we get more funding was for that then that plant can be very clean energy plant for at Lodi where we have some partnership and

There was another request for small modular nuclear, which is getting big traction from some other states and other utilities, but not in California.

So we are trying to push that for that.

And with all that, like Silicon Valley Power is considered within NCPA as a crown jewel, and they command a lot of respect within the NCPA community.

and we did, both the sessions were in, both Senate as well as Assembly were in session, but we did meet our Assemblymember Aaron's staff, and raised all these things, and also met Senator Wahab's staff on these things.

But it's a continuing effort, every year they hold this thing, so that's what I was there for.

Thank you.

Santa Clara Boards and Commissions · 01-16-2026 Governance and Ethics Committee Meeting - Jan 21, 2026 · 21 Jan 2026 meeting

Yes. low-confidence

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