Includes Funding for New Equity Offerings in Environmental Justice Communities
立即发布 March 7, 2022
MCE 新闻联系人：
Jenna Tenney，营销与传播经理
(925) 378-6747 | communications@mceCleanEnergy.org
加州圣拉斐尔和康科德 — 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 峰值 FLEXmarket 计划 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 电气化 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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关于 MCE： MCE 是一家具有开创性的非营利性公共机构，自 2010 年以来一直为我们社区的清洁能源设定标准。 MCE 以稳定的价格提供更多的可再生能源电力，大大减少了与能源相关的温室气体排放，并为当地能源项目提供了数百万美元的再投资。MCE 是一个负荷服务实体，支持 1,200 兆瓦的峰值负荷。MCE 为湾区四个县 37 个成员社区的 54 万多个客户账户和 100 多万居民及企业提供电力服务和创新计划：康特拉科斯塔、马林、纳帕和索拉诺四个湾区县的 37 个成员社区的 54 万用户和 100 多万居民和企业。有关 MCE 的更多信息，请访问 mceCleanEnergy.org或通过以下方式关注我们 在 Facebook 上, LinkedIn, 推特 和 Instagram.
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