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Resolution No. 9512
Resolution of the Council of the City of Palo Alto Reducing the Contract Price for the Palo Alto
Clean Local Energy Accessible Now (CLEAN) Program from 16.5 C/kWh to between 10.3-10.4¢/kWh
for Solar Resources, Expanding the CLEAN Program's Eligibility to Non-solar Renewable Energy
Resources and Adding a 25-Year Contract Term Option
RECITALS
A. On March 5, 2012, the City approved the Palo Alto Clean Local Energy Accessible
Now (CLEAN) Program (or feed-in tariff). Under the Palo Alto CLEAN Program, participants who
build a new solar generating system in Palo Alto may obtain a long-term, fixed-price contract with
the City to sell the energy from the system to the City's electric utility.
B. The first program year of Palo Alto CLEAN commenced on April 2, 2012 and was
originally set to terminate on December 31, 2012.
C. On February 3, 2014, Council approved Resolution 9393, which continued Palo Alto
CLEAN with a contract price of 16.5cents per Kilowatt-hour (kWh) and established a maximum
total Palo Alto CLEAN Program cost commitment of $20,000,000 over t.he life of the program. This
amount was sufficient for a program cap of 3 megawatts (MW) of generating capacity.
D. The City wants to continue to offer the program for solar resources with the
existing 3 MW cap of generating capacity, while adding a 25-year contract term option and
simultaneously reducing the contract price offered from 16.5 cents per kWh to 10.3 cents per kWh
for a 20-year contract or 10.4 cents per kWh for a 25 year contract.
E. The City also wants to open the program to local, non-solar eligible renewable
energy resources and offer contract prices of 9.3 cents per kWh for a 20-year contract term or 9.4
cents per kWh for a 25-year contract term for such resources.
F. The City intends that non-solar, local eligible renewable energy resources not be
counted toward the Palo Alto CLEAN Program's 3 MW generating capacity cap for solar resources,
but be subject to a separate 3 MW generating capacity cap of its own.
The Council of the City of Palo Alto ("City") RESOLVES:
SECTION 1. To modify the CLEAN Program to:
a. Add a 25-Year Contract Term Option in Addition to the CLEAN Program's Existing
20-Year Contract Term Option;
b. Continue the Palo Alto CLEAN Program for solar energy resources, reducing the
contract price from 16.5 cents per kilowatt-hour (C/kWh) to a contract price
equal to the avoided cost of solar energy resources of 10.3 C/kWh for a 20-year
contract, and 10.4 C/kWh for a 25-year contract term, and to continue with a
CLEAN Program limit for solar energy resources of 3 megawatts (MW); and
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c. Expand the CLEAN Program to allow non-solar eligible renewable energy
resources to participate, and offer such resources a contract price equal to their
avoided cost of 9.3 cents per kilowatt-hour ( C/kWh) for a 20-year contract, and
9.4 C/kWh for a 25-year contract term, with a program limit of 3 MW.
SECTION 2. To implement such changes, the Council adopts revised Palo Alto CLEAN
Program Eligibility Rules Requirements, set forth in Exhibit A-1 attached to this Resolution.
SECTION 3. The Council authorizes the City Manager or his designee to sign contracts for
the output of one or more solar, or other non-solar eligible renewable energy resource meeting the
CLEAN Program Eligibility Rules and Requirements described in Section 1. The total CLEAN Program
cost commitment made by the City during the life of the program shall not exceed $75,000,000,
which is sufficient for a program cap of 3 MW of local solar generating capacity and 3 MW of local,
non-solar generating capacity over a 25-year contract term.
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SECTION 4. The Council finds that the adoption of this resolution is not subject to
California Environmental Quality Act {CEQA) review under California Public Resources Code
section 21080{b){8), because the rate adopted reflects the reasonable cost of the CLEAN
Program's operating expenses. Approval of the amended CLEAN Program Eligibility Rules and
Requirements is not a project under CEQA, and therefore, no environmental assessment is
necessary.
INTRODUCED AND PASSED: May 27, 2015
AYES: BERMAN, BURT, DUBOIS, HOLMAN, SCHMID, WOLBACH
NOES: FILSETH, SCHARFF
ABSENT: KNISS
ABSTENTIONS:
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APPROVED AS TO FORM:
Senior Deputy City Attorney
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Jessica Mullan
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City of Palo Alto
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Chief Financial Officer
City of Palo Alto
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James Keene
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City of Palo Alto
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