May 8, 2018 Senator Ricardo Lara Chair, Senate Appropriations Committee California State Senate Sacramento, CA 95814 RE: Oppose Unless Amended -- Senate Bill 1088 (Dodd) Dear Senator Lara, On behalf of a broad coalition representing over 25 environmental, workforce, and clean energy organizations, I am writing to express our strong opposition to SB 1088 (Dodd). Even with May 2nd revisions, we remain strongly opposed to the bill and ask for further amendments to remove our opposition. Solar, energy storage and other distributed energy resources -- such as demand response, energy efficiency, etc. -- are a critical part of California’s clean energy future. They bring greater grid stabilization, fire safety, and consumer protection. Communities that invest in distributed energy resources have more options for maintaining reliable electricity supplies during emergency events, like the fires that struck California last year. To cut off these technologies and the businesses that are best able to bring them to market in the most cost-effective and efficient manner is bad public policy. SB 1088, as currently written, would: • Cost ratepayers by restricting providers of cost-saving distributed energy resources from contracting with utilities to improve grid safety and reliability and avoid costly grid upgrades. • Secure a utility monopoly on future distributed generation resources. • Block behind-the-meter resources, such as solar and storage, from participating in future grid safety and reliability programs. • Severely limit the development of innovative solutions for grid-connected solar and energy storage with customer-controlled uses like electric vehicle charging to better balance the system locally and lower electricity costs. There are several places within SB 1088 that need to be modified or struck in order to remove our opposition. Specifically subsection (u) and (v) of Section 1, Section 2899.2 and 2899.3 of Section 4. We urge this committee to remove the anti-clean energy provisions within SB 1088. Thank you.
Sincerely, Alan Weiner 350 Conejo San Fernando Valley
Hanna Grene Center for Sustainable Energy
Alex McDonough Sunrun
Janice Lin California Energy Storage Alliance
Allie Detrio Engie Services
Jena Price California League of Conservation Voters
Andrea Deveau TechNet
Katherine Hamilton Advanced Energy Management Alliance
Amisha Rai Advanced Energy Economy
Mary Leslie Los Angeles Business Council
Benjamin Eichert Greenpower
Melanie Gillette CA Energy Efficiency & Demand Management
Bernadette Del Chiaro California Solar & Storage Association
Mona Tierney-Lloyd EnerNOC, Inc.
Blair Swezey Sunpower
Nicholas Connell Advanced Microgrid Solutions
Cheryl Vaughn Solar Richmond
Nicole Capretz Climate Action Campaign
Dan Brotman SoCal 350
Polly Shaw Stem
Dan Jacobson Environment California
Rachel Bird Borrego
David Rosenfeld Solar CitiSuns
Rick Umoff Solar Energy Industries Association
Deborah Silvey Fossil Free CA
Sebastian Sarria San Diego Community Choice Alliance
Ed Smeloff Vote Solar
Sherry Lear 350 South Bay Los Angeles
Eddie Ahn Brightline Defense Erika Morgan San Diego Energy District & CA Alliance For Community Energy
Cc: Senator Dodd Committee members Senate Pro Tem Atkins
