Mountain View Adopts Climate Protection Roadmap

On September 17, 2015 the Mountain View City Council adopted a Climate Protection Roadmap (CPR) for its community.  The CPR establishes greenhouse gas (GHG) emission reduction targets in 5 year increments through the year 2050, which culminates in 80% reductions below 2005 levels.  It also lists a series of actions and strategies City Council can undertake to reach its GHG reduction targets.

One of the top three priority actions in the CPR is the investigation of the formation of a Community Choice Energy (CCE) program, which is currently underway.  The other top priorities are...

Sierra Club Survey: CCE is #1

In Septembber 2014, the Loma Prieta Chapter of the Sierra Club released the results of their Local Government Climate Action Survey 2014.  It is a survey of cities in Santa Clara and San Mateo Counties, looking at a host of actions cities are taking or considering in order to address climate change.  One of the most interesting findings in the study is that if a city adopts CCE (Community Choice Energy, referred to as Community Choice Aggregation or CCA in this study), this will have a bigger effect than all other actions combined in reducing greenhouse gas emissions.  Read their whole report here:

2014 Climate Survey by the Loma Prieta chapter of the Sierra Club

City Council Votes to Include $30k for CCE in Preliminary Budget

On  Tuesday, April 29th, 2014, Mountain View held a study session on the Fiscal Year 2014-15 Narrative Budget Report.  There were several items in the report that had been requested by subcommittees or outside organizations which staff recommended city council discuss and consider adding to the budget.  One of these items was a sum of up to $30K to study the feasibility of CCE.  Council members voted to include this in the preliminary budget.

City Council will approve the final budget in June.

Cities Association prioritizes CCE

On March 13, 2014 Shawn Marshall gave an educational presentation on Community Choice Energy to the Cities Association of Santa Clara County.  Afterwards, the Cities Association board members voted unanimously to make CCE a priority and formed a sub-committee to investigate next steps.  Mountain View's representative in the Cities Association, city council member Margaret Abe-Koga, is on this sub-committee.