Dive Summary:

• The San Francisco, California Board of Supervisors is set to consider legislation that would allocate $19.5 million to secure a contract with Shell Energy North America, $2 million of which would go to the study of local power-generation options.
• The program, dubbed CleanPowerSF, would provide 100 percent renewable power to residents who want to pay a premium for it.
• CleanPowerSF would also play a part in San Francisco’s aggressive greenhouse-gas reduction goals and would effectively break Pacific Gas and Electric Co.’s decades-old monopoly on the power market in the city.

From the article:

The Board of Supervisors is set to consider legislation Tuesday that would allocate $19.5 million to secure a contract with Shell Energy North America to provide 100 percent renewable power to San Franciscans who want to pay a premium for it, with $2 million of that total allocated to studying local power-generation options.

The program, CleanPowerSF, is designed to build a customer base and revenue stream to lay the groundwork for city-owned renewable power generation while advancing San Francisco's aggressive greenhouse-gas reduction goals. It also would effectively break Pacific Gas and Electric Co.'s decades-old monopoly on the consumer power market in its headquarter city. ...