{"id":1212,"date":"2009-05-04T11:59:58","date_gmt":"2009-05-04T19:59:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fogcityjournal.com\/wordpress\/2009\/05\/04\/recurrent-dilemmas-at-the-sunset-reservoir\/"},"modified":"2009-05-06T20:40:19","modified_gmt":"2009-05-07T04:40:19","slug":"recurrent-dilemmas-at-the-sunset-reservoir","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fogcityjournal.com\/wordpress\/1212\/recurrent-dilemmas-at-the-sunset-reservoir\/","title":{"rendered":"Recurrent Dilemmas at the Sunset Reservoir"},"content":{"rendered":"

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By Julian Davis<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

May 4, 2009<\/p>\n

Here we are in 2009 with major roadblocks to the City of San Francisco covering the Sunset Reservoir with solar panels and selling the electricity to San Francisco residents and businesses. It’s a political conundrum that has the City considering a deal with Recurrent Energy, a private solar power developer and owner, to build a solar plant atop the reservoir and bill the City of San Francisco millions upon millions of dollars for energy we should be able to produce and sell ourselves.<\/p>\n

The mechanics of the Recurrent deal, before the full Board of Supervisors Tuesday, are decidedly not in the City’s favor. Surprisingly, the deal made it past a Budget and Finance sub-committee in large part because the Sierra Club is supporting the deal out of global warming induced desperation. But there is no good reason why the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission (SFPUC) can’t move forward just as quickly with a publicly owned and operated solar plant with huge cost savings.<\/p>\n

Why the Recurrent deal is so bad<\/strong><\/p>\n

The cost of building a 5 megawatt solar plant atop the Sunset Reservoir is approximately $40 million. But, as the deal is currently structured, the cheapest price the SFPUC could get away with paying Recurrent for the plant is $50 million, and that’s if it exercises its one-time option to purchase the plant after seven years of paying almost $2 million annually for the energy it produces. The deal gets worse if the City doesn’t exercize its buyout option in seven years because then we are locked into a 25-year power purchase agreement that would cost us closer to $70 million over the life of the contract. The deal would require the Board of Supervisors to waive its right to oversee annual appropriations for the project.<\/p>\n

The argument proponents of the deal are making is that Recurrent Energy would be eligible for federal tax credits that are not available to the SFPUC and other public agencies. This, they argue, would lower the cost of the project and potentially reduce financial risk to the City. This argument is a blatant red herring. Yes, the federal tax credits would lower the cost for Recurrent to build the project, but that won’t lower the cost for the City to buy the energy or the plant.<\/p>\n

The SFPUC would still be roped into a long-term fixed-rate contract with Recurrent. So, all the tax exemption means is that Recurrent can take at least another $10 million to the bank from the Federal Government and still charge us $50-70 million for a $40 million project. That’s a tidy $20-40 million gross profit for Recurrent depending on whether we buy the project after seven years or decide to let them keep selling us solar power for two and a half decades.<\/p>\n

Furthermore, our financial risk is far greater with the Recurrent deal than if we first secured a revenue model for the solar power generated and then issued revenue bonds to finance a city-built plant (something San Francisco voters already approved in 2001). Instead of being on the hook to Recurrent for up to $70 million, the SFPUC could finance the project with $40 million in bond financing. There is no reason why the Obama administration shouldn’t let the SFPUC access subsidies the way it currently does for private companies. This would lower the cost to more like 30 million. The City would save tens of millions of dollars by having the SFPUC finance and own the plant upfront instead of paying Recurrent to sell it back to us.<\/p>\n

Recurrent Politics<\/strong><\/p>\n

The real issue holding up the swift development and distribution of solar energy by the SFPUC using voter-approved revenue bonds, is that PG&E has a monopoly on distributing electricity to residents and businesses in San Francisco. If this monopoly were ever genuinely challenged, there would be a quick and ready revenue model for the solar power generated on the Sunset Reservoir. It could be sold by the SFPUC to surrounding residential and commercial consumers offering a more affordable alternative to PG&E. If Community Choice Aggregation (CCA), or public power were ever instituted, this would be possible.<\/p>\n

Given the roadblock PG&E’s sole distributorship poses to anybody else selling electricity to residential and commercial customers, Recurrent’s revenue model is simple: milk the city of San Francisco by roping us into buying energy we can’t sell. With a dollar per year lease for the SFPUC’s 480,000-square foot reservoir rooftop, Recurrent would rake in millions from the City, sticking us with a huge bill for solar energy we hope someday we can turn around and sell but, for which, there is no current workable revenue model because PG&E has a monopoly on distribution. OUCH!<\/em> – that is a horrible deal for San Francisco.<\/p>\n

Although it is obvious that the Recurrent deal is not in San Francisco’s best interest, Mayor Gavin Newsom is hot to push it through. He doesn’t seem to care about the financial burden it places on the City as long as he can take credit for the largest solar power project in any American city. Unfortunately, the general zeal to produce renewable energy and stop global warming has blinded the Sierra Club and other environmentalists to the awful nature of this deal.<\/p>\n

What the Supervisors need to do: Send the deal back to the Budget and Finance Committee<\/strong><\/p>\n

Instead of approving a politically motivated give away to private interests, the Board of Supervisors should look more closely at this deal and find a better alternative. That means not buckling under pressure from Newsom and the Sierra Club, and immediately sending this back to the Budget and Finance Committee for more scrutiny. Energy issues can sometimes appear complicated and we can’t expect freshman supervisors to have it all sussed out after one sub-committee meeting, although, to his credit, Supervisor David Campos has this one figured out. Supervisors Ross Mirkarimi, Chris Daly and Campos, need support on this issue from Supervisors John Avalos, David Chiu and Eric Mar. San Francisco deserves a fair shake on any initiative to develop solar power on the Sunset Reservoir – the Recurrent deal is far from it.<\/p>\n

Build a City-owned solar power plant<\/strong><\/p>\n

San Francisco does not need to pay Recurrent or any other private company to build a solar installation on the Sunset Reservoir and then sell the power back to us. The SFPUC should immediately draw up plans to finance and build the solar project and sell the electricity directly to San Francisco customers. The Supervisors and the SFPUC have all the tools in place to accomplish this using voter-approved revenue bonds and the CCA model.<\/p>\n

Work with the Administration to allow subsidies for public agencies<\/strong><\/p>\n

There is no reason why Reagan-Bush era tax codes should linger indefinitely when President Barack Obama has already signaled his desire to change them. The SFPUC should be able to take advantage of some kind of federal subsidy like what is currently available to private companies in the form of tax credits. The City ought to be independently pursuing the Sunset Reservoir project while concurrently seeking approval for public entities to get subsidized, the way a private entity would.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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