1. Community Power
Opportunities
How community choice aggregation lets cities
advance local priorities and aïŹordable electricity
John Farrell, Institute for Local Self-Reliance, September 24, 2020
2. Public power is a âbirch rodâ in the
cupboard to be taken out and used only
when the âchildâ gets beyond the point
where a mere scolding does no good
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
5. 100% CITIES AND LOCAL CONTROL
Allows community choice
Munis with 100% commitments
CCA with 100% commitments
Goal achieved
Lowell
Cambridge
Evanston
Marin County
San Jose
Solana Beach
Lancaster
Orlando
Gainesville
Blacksburg
Cleveland
Burlington
Rochester
BloomïŹeld
Rock Port
Greensburg
Denton
Georgetown
Aspen
Ft. Collins
Boulder
Truckee
Palo Alto
San Francisco
Boston
Glen Ellyn
Longmont
Traverse City
Cities with 100% renewable energy and control over their energy supply via a city-owned
municipal utility (muni) or community choice energy program
Updated August 2019 / from ILSRâs
Community Choice Energy report
Cities achieving
the 100% goal
have
community
power
6. W H O A M I ?
ILSR Co-Director: we build local
power to fight corporate control
Director, Energy Democracy
Initiative: we are a national
research and advocacy
organization that partners with
allies across the country to give
communities more decision
making power over their energy
future Nerd
Productivity
nut
Rabble
rouser
Policy wonk
@johnïŹarrell
Local Energy Rules podcast host
John Farrell in a pie
chart
www.ilsr.org
Author of Community Choice Energy: An
Alternative to Electricity Monopolies Enables
Communities to Center People and Planet
(Feb. 2020)
9. A Growing Source of Power
12%
Share of sales in states with
community choice, 2019
150 new community choice cities
since 2015
170+ communities have formed 21
agencies serving 4+ million
customers, with several new agencies
in development
Over 50 cities and towns have created
community choice programs, most in
the past year
10. Community Choice Market Share
Percent of total electricity customers and sales served by community choice
California
Illinois
Massachusetts
New Jersey*
New York*
Ohio
Rhode Island*
Virginia
0% 10% 20% 30% 40%
0%
12%
1%
5%
27%
34%
35%
3%
4%
0%
2%
10%
11%
29%
Percent of sales
Percent of customers
Source: Community Choice Aggregation (NREL, 2019); ILSR (2020)
*New Jersey programs launched in 2012 after the law
switched to opt-out; New Yorkâs law was adopted in 2018;
Rhode Island programs only serve city governments
(no active programs)
18. 0%
25%
50%
75%
100%
All Calif. Ill. Mass. N.J. N.Y. Ohio R.I.
Voluntary Green Power
RPS Renewable
Non-renewable
Percent of electricity portfolio
V O L U N TA RY G R E E N P O W E R S H A R E S
O F C C A E L E C T R I C I T Y P O RT F O L I O S
Source: Community Choice
Aggregation (NREL, 2019)
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20. C O M M U N I T Y C H O I C E R E N E WA B L E
E N E R G Y O F F E R I N G S
0%
25%
50%
75%
100%
California Illinois Massachusetts New
Jersey
New York Ohio
100% default
100% option
Neither
Percent of stateâs community choice programs (2019)
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21. 0%
25%
50%
75%
100%
All Calif. Ill. Mass. N.Y. Ohio
In-State
Regional
National
Percent of voluntary green power sales
G E O G R A P H I C S O U R C E S O F
V O L U N TA RY G R E E N P O W E R S U P P LY
Source: Community
Choice Aggregation
(NREL, 2019)
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23. Redwood Coast Energy Authority
Humboldt County, Calif.
Population: 132,646
In the Wake of Wildfires, California Community
Chooses Local Power
Matthew Marshall, Executive Director
âCCAs are an interesting model because itâs one of
the few times where government is actually the
faster, more nimble entityâ
-- Matthew Marshall
24. Jobs and Economic Development
âWe won $5.6M for the 2019-2020 Local Development
Business Plan budget!â
-- Jessica Tovar, East Bay Clean Power Alliance
Organizer
26. Thank you!
@johnïŹarrell
www.ilsr.org
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LO CA L
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