50% Solar & Wind Power For San Francisco!

On June, 19, 2007 the San Francisco Board of Supervisors passed legislation that will build enough solar, wind and energy efficiency projects to power San Francisco on 50% clean, renewable electricity within the next decade. Called Community Choice, the project also puts an end to San Francisco's century long dependence on PG&E for its electricity supply.

Beginning in April 2004, Our City led the grassroots field operation that helped bring about the passage of this groundbreaking legislation.

48 other California cities have been waiting to follow San Francisco's example on Community Choice, so passage of this measure will lead California, and eventually the world, into a clean, local, renewable energy powered future.

But there is more to be done...

PG&E Could Addict Us To Dirty Energy If We Don't Keep Community Choice On Track

The California Public Utilities Commission has given PG&E the opening to beat renewable energy to the punch, and force California electricity consumers to pay for 3 new fossil fuel power plants and a dangerous 30 year extension of PG&E's nuclear power production at Diablo Canyon.

To fuel its new plants, PG&E, in a joint venture with Williams company, will import massive amounts of polluting liquid natural gas through a huge pipeline to be run from Oregon to Northern California.

As a challenge to this backward natural gas plan, the Community Choice project will soon go out for contractor bids. It is crucial that the Mayor and Supervisors make sure the bidding process is successful, and that the renewable energy project gets built on schedule.

What You Can Do

Email Mayor Newsom and Your Supervisor Today!

Click on and then send to both:

Mayor Gavin Newsom and
The Board of Supervisors

the following sample, or your own composition...

Sample Letter For Community Choice Energy:

Dear Supervisor and Mayor Newsom,

Please guarantee full funding and support for a LAFCo approved Community Choice Energy project that will run San Francisco on 50% renewable energy sources within the next decade, and will use the electricity savings created by these renewables to pay for the project, so that it meets or beats PG&E rates.

Thank You,

[Insert your name and street address here.]