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<br /> <br /> <br />April 19, 2021 <br /> <br />Mayor and City Council <br />City of Santa Ana <br />20 Civic Center Plaza <br />Santa Ana, CA 92701 <br /> <br />RE: Code of Conduct for Electrical Corporations Relative to Community Choice Aggregation <br />Programs <br /> <br />Dear Council Members, <br /> <br />As Community Choice <br />-s <br />consideration, formation, and implementation of CCA programs. <br /> <br />The rules are intended to provide fair and equal competition for CCA programs, prevent IOUs <br />from using their position or market power to undermine the development or operation of <br />community choice aggregators, and assist customers by enhancing their ability to make <br />educated choices among electric providers. To further such interests, it is imperative to <br />provide public officials and decision makers with some of the relative rules governing <br /> <br /> <br />Recently, SCE representatives have been approaching cities considering CCA. SCE has given <br />cities presentation material on CCA programs, been slotted to speak as CCA experts, and <br />directly provided opinions on CCA to public officials. Although SCE states the Code of <br />Conduct rules that prohibit IOUs from marketing and lobbying against CCA programs, simply <br />stating the rules is not indicative that <br />are alarming and potentially run contrary to <br />code of conduct. <br /> <br />Senate Bill (SB) 790 <br /> <br />rules to govern the conduct of electrical corporations relative to the consideration, <br />formation, and implementation of CCA programs. Pursuant to SB 790, the code of conduct <br />rules are meant to facilitate the development of CCA programs, to foster fair competition, <br />and to protect against cross-subsidization paid by ratepayers. Further, the bill required the <br />code of conduct to ensure an electrical corporation does not market against a CCA program. <br /> <br /> 1 <br /> <br />