Includes Funding for New Equity Offerings in Environmental Justice Communities
POUR PUBLICATION IMMÉDIATE March 7, 2022
Contact presse MCE :
Jenna Tenney, responsable du marketing et de la communication
(925) 378-6747 | communications@mceCleanEnergy.org
SAN RAFAEL et CONCORD, Calif. — 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 Peak FLEXmarket Program and creating new equity offerings for residents in environmental justice communities in MCE’s service area.
“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 électrification 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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À propos de MCE : MCE est une agence publique innovante, à but non lucratif, qui établit la norme en matière d'énergie propre dans nos communautés depuis 2010. MCE propose davantage d'énergie renouvelable à des tarifs stables, ce qui réduit considérablement les émissions de gaz à effet de serre liées à l'énergie et permet de réinvestir des millions de dollars dans des programmes énergétiques locaux. MCE est une entité de service de charge qui soutient une charge de pointe de 1 200 MW. MCE fournit des services d'électricité et des programmes innovants à plus de 540 000 clients et à plus d'un million de résidents et d'entreprises dans 37 communautés membres réparties dans quatre comtés de la Bay Area : Contra Costa, Marin, Napa et Solano. Pour plus d'informations sur MCE, visitez le site mceCleanEnergy.orgou suivez-nous sur Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter et Instagram.
