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<br />Orozco, Norma <br />From:Patricia Bustamante <pati_bustamante@hotmail.com> <br />Sent:Thursday, December 10, 2020 4:08 PM <br />To:sarmiento@santa-ana.org; Mendoza, Nelida; Bacerra, Phil; Penaloza, David; <br />jessie@votejessielopez.com; johnathan@hernandezforsantaana.org; eComment <br />Subject:Climate <br />Everyone in Santa Ana needs electricity every day, yet Santa Ana residents do not have any choice on where they get their electricity. <br />SoCal Edison’s monopoly on Santa Ana has resulted in years of steadily rising rates for residents with little to show for it. <br /> <br />Now SCE is requesting a 14.4% increase in residential rates for 2021. CCE is the only significant tool our city has to protect residents <br />from these increases. A recent study by the City of Irvine concluded that CCE customers would save .5 to 2% off SCE’s comparable <br />rates, with higher savings predicted over time. <br /> <br />Income generated by the CCE will be returned to our community to help fund local programs like stabilizing our electricity bills, bike <br />lanes or EV chargers instead of going to pay SCE shareholder dividends or CEO bonuses. <br /> <br />The Irvine study also found that CCE will enable the city achieve 100% clean energy by 2035 at no additional cost to customers while <br />reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 360,000 metric tons each year. That's like taking more than 78,000 cars off the road. <br />Environmental benefits would be comparable for Santa Ana. <br /> <br />Irvine's City Council has unanimously voted to create a CCE Joint Powers Authority after multiple recommendations from their Green <br />Ribbon Committee and Finance Commission agreed with their study, which found that CCE will bring the city $10.6 million in annual <br />net revenue, $7.7 million in annual savings for Irvine consumers, and $120,000 in annual municipal electricity savings. <br /> <br />Santa Ana needs to vote to move forward on CCE as soon as possible this month in order to meet a year-end California Public Utilities <br />Commission deadline that must be met in order to begin service in 2022. If the council misses this deadline, Santa Ana residents <br />cannot get CCE until 2023. <br /> <br /> <br />Santa Ana Resident <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />Get Outlook for iOS <br />1 <br />