Includes Funding for New Equity Offerings in Environmental Justice Communities
PARA PUBLICACIÓN INMEDIATA March 7, 2022
Contacto de prensa de MCE:
Jenna Tenney, Gerente de Marketing y Comunicaciones
(925) 378-6747 | comunicaciones@mceCleanEnergy.org
SAN RAFAEL y CONCORD, California. — On March 4, 2022, MCE filed a business plan with the California Public Utilities Commission to invest $188 million from 2024 to 2031 in energy efficiency and demand management programs to benefit customers, reduce greenhouse gas emissions and support grid resiliency. The eight-year plan comprehensively addresses the needs of MCE’s agricultural, commercial, industrial, public agency, and residential customers. This includes extending MCE’s groundbreaking Programa Peak FLEXmarket y crear nuevas ofertas de capital para los residentes en comunidades de justicia ambiental en el área de servicio de MCE.
“MCE’s leading–edge approach to customer programs has already created significant benefits for our customers,” said Tom Butt, MCE Board Chair and Mayor of Richmond. “By expanding our energy efficiency program portfolio, we have the opportunity to further support those in our communities who need it the most. The expanded equity offerings build on programs like our workforce development initiatives, which have reinvested over $3 million in our communities.”
MCE designed new equity programs to provide energy efficiency and electrificación benefits to households and businesses in environmental justice communities in MCE’s service area. These communities are identified as those areas facing historic barriers to access clean energy services and programs. Benefits include reducing energy bills, improving environmental health, and supporting critical workforce development.
MCE’s plan outlines a holistic vision of energy efficiency that advances decarbonization, improves grid reliability, delivers energy savings, and provides community benefits. MCE combines traditional energy efficiency approaches with meter-measured and performance-based strategies, strategic energy management education, load shaping and demand response measures, building electrification measures, and an optimized layering of related clean energy programs to provide significant benefits to its customers and the grid.
MCE estimates this $188 million plan will permanently reduce 192,473 megawatt–hours of energy consumption and provide over $148 million in benefits between 2024 and 2031.
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Acerca de MCE: MCE es una agencia pública pionera sin fines de lucro que ha marcado la pauta en energía limpia en nuestras comunidades desde 2010. MCE ofrece más energía renovable a tarifas estables, lo que reduce significativamente las emisiones de gases de efecto invernadero relacionadas con la energía y permite la reinversión de millones de dólares en programas energéticos locales. MCE es una entidad que gestiona la carga máxima de 1200 MW. MCE proporciona servicio eléctrico y programas innovadores a más de 540 000 clientes y a más de un millón de residentes y empresas en 37 comunidades miembro de cuatro condados del Área de la Bahía: Contra Costa, Marin, Napa y Solano. Para obtener más información sobre MCE, visite mceCleanEnergy.org, o síguenos en Facebook, LinkedIn, Gorjeo y Instagram.
