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Cabrillo at First Mixed-Use Residential
<br /> Air Quality, Global Climate Change, HRA, and Energy Impact Analysis
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<br />▪ In 2019, California was the fourth-largest electricity producer in the nation, but the state was also the
<br />nation’s largest importer of electricity and received about 28% of its electricity supply from generating
<br />facilities outside of California, including imports from Mexico.27
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<br />As indicated above, California is one of the nation’s leading energy‐producing states, and California per capita
<br />energy use is among the nation’s most efficient. Given the nature of the proposed project, the remainder of
<br />this discussion will focus on the three sources of energy that are most relevant to the project—namely,
<br />electricity and natural gas, and transportation fuel for vehicle trips associated with the proposed project.
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<br />Electricity
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<br />Electricity would be provided to the project by Southern California Edison (SCE). SCE provides electric power
<br />to more than 15 million persons, within a service area encompassing approximately 50,000 square miles.28
<br />SCE derives electricity from varied energy resources including: fossil fuels, hydroelectric generators, nuclear
<br />power plants, geothermal power plants, solar power generation, and wind farms. SCE also purchases from
<br />independent power producers and utilities, including out‐of‐state suppliers.29
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<br />Table 22 identifies SCE’s specific proportional shares of electricity sources in 2020. As shown in Table 22, the
<br />2020 SCE Power Mix has renewable energy at 33 percent of the overall energy resources, of which biomass
<br />and waste is at 3 percent, geothermal is at 5 percent, eligible hydroelectric is at 1 percent, solar energy is at
<br />13 percent, and wind power is at 11 percent; other energy sources include large hydroelectric at 12 percent,
<br />natural gas at 37 percent, nuclear at 9 percent and unspecified sources at 5 percent.
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<br />Natural Gas
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<br />Natural gas would be provided to the project by Southern California Gas (SoCalGas). The following summary
<br />of natural gas resources and service providers, delivery systems, and associated regulation is excerpted from
<br />information provided by the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC).
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<br />The CPUC regulates natural gas utility service for approximately 11 million customers that receive natural gas
<br />from Pacific Gas and Electric (PG&E), Southern California Gas (SoCalGas), San Diego Gas & Electric (SDG&E),
<br />Southwest Gas, and several smaller investor-owned natural gas utilities. The CPUC also regulates independent
<br />storage operators Lodi Gas Storage, Wild Goose Storage, Central Valley Storage and Gill Ranch Storage.
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<br />The vast majority of California's natural gas customers are residential and small commercial customers,
<br />referred to as "core" customers. Larger volume gas customers, like electric generators and industrial
<br />customers, are called "noncore" customers. Although very small in number relative to core customers,
<br />noncore customers consume about 65% of the natural gas delivered by the state's natural gas utilities, while
<br />core customers consume about 35%.
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<br />The PUC regulates the California utilities' natural gas rates and natural gas services, including in-state
<br />transportation over the utilities' transmission and distribution pipeline systems, storage, procurement,
<br />metering and billing.
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<br />Most of the natural gas used in California comes from out-of-state natural gas basins. In 2017, for example,
<br />California utility customers received 38% of their natural gas supply from basins located in the U.S. Southwest,
<br />27% from Canada, 27% from the U.S. Rocky Mountain area, and 8% from production located in California.”30
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<br />27 State Profile and Energy Estimates. Independent Statistics and Analysis. [Online] [Cited: January 16, 2020.]
<br />http://www.eia.gov/state/?sid=CA#tabs2.
<br />28 https://www.sce.com/about-us/who-we-are/leadership/our-service-territory
<br />29 California Energy Commission. Utility Energy Supply plans from 2015.
<br />https://www.energy.ca.gov/almanac/electricity_data/supply_forms.html
<br />30California Public Utilities Commission. Natural Gas and California. http://www.cpuc.ca.gov/natural_gas/
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