Includes Funding for New Equity Offerings in Environmental Justice Communities
PARA SA AGAD NA PAGLABAS March 7, 2022
MCE Press Contact:
Jenna Tenney, Marketing at Communications Manager
(925) 378-6747 | communications@mceCleanEnergy.org
SAN RAFAEL at 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 pagpapakuryente 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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Tungkol sa MCE: Ang MCE ay isang groundbreaking, not-for-profit, pampublikong ahensya na nagtatakda ng pamantayan para sa malinis na enerhiya sa ating mga komunidad mula noong 2010. Nag-aalok ang MCE ng mas maraming renewable power sa mga stable na rate, na makabuluhang binabawasan ang mga greenhouse emissions na nauugnay sa enerhiya at nagbibigay-daan sa milyun-milyong dolyar na muling pamumuhunan sa mga lokal na programa ng enerhiya. MCE ay isang load-serving entity na sumusuporta sa 1,200 MW peak load. Nagbibigay ang MCE ng serbisyo sa kuryente at mga makabagong programa sa mahigit 540,000 account ng customer at higit sa isang milyong residente at negosyo sa 37 miyembrong komunidad sa apat na county ng Bay Area: Contra Costa, Marin, Napa, at Solano. Para sa karagdagang impormasyon tungkol sa MCE, bisitahin ang mceCleanEnergy.org, o sundan kami sa Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter at Instagram.
