[GPSCC-chat] fw: Does the Green Party of SC Co. Have a Position on Community Choice Energy?

[Tian Harter]

 I've been making buttons for these guys.
  
 Tian
  

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 From: "Bruce Karney" <bkarney at comcast.net>
Sent: Thursday, January 07, 2016 10:13 AM
To: jimd at greens.org
Cc: "Tian Harter" <tnharter at aceweb.com>
Subject: Does the Green Party of SC Co. Have a Position on Community Choice 
Energy?   
  Hi Jim,
  
 I'm the President of the Board of Carbon Free Mountain View, a grassroots 
group that's been working for the last 3 years to get Santa Clara County 
and its cities to form a Joint Powers Authority and offer Community Choice 
Energy to residents and businesses.  This would be very similar to Marin 
Clean Energy and Sonoma Clean Power in the North Bay.
  
 Things are going very well with our efforts.  Three cities have already 
voted to join the new Silicon Valley Community Choice Energy Authority and 
8 more cities, plus the County Board of Supervisors, will be voting in the 
next 3 months to join or not.  (Palo Alto and Santa Clara are not involved 
because they already have their own municipal utilities; San Jose is 
considering starting its own CCE, but is on a slower track than the rest of 
the county's cities; and Milpitas is not doing anything at this time.)
  
 So, I have two questions:
 1) Has the local GP endorsed the Santa Clara County CCE efforts yet?
 2) If not, what would need to happen to secure an endorsement?
  
 Additionally, do you think you could help facilitate:
 1) An informational meeting this month or early next month where someone 
from CFMV would talk to GP members about CCE
 2) Using your mailing list once or twice in the next 2 months to encourage 
GP members to attend upcoming city council meetings to speak in favor of 
CCE.
  
 Here's a link to info on SVCCEA  http://www.svcleanenergy.org/
  
 I look forward to hearing from you!
  
 Cheers,
Bruce Karney
  


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