Community Choice Aggregation

Assembly Bill 117 codified Community Choice Aggregation (CCA) to grant local California governments and communities a more direct voice in energy resource planning, determining the types of power generation technologies used to meet their electricity requirements, setting rates for generation services, and implementing local programs for energy efficiency, distributed generation, and other energy-related programs (Stoner 2008). A pilot project feasibility study of Bay Area, Southern California and San Diego communities examined how CCA could be a vehicle to increase the amount of electricity generated in California from renewable resources (Stoner 2008). The study showed that forming a CCA could bring rate benefits to customers (one to ten percent on average), due primarily to certain capital financing advantages the community choice aggregator would possess. This is one strategy outlined for consideration in the Sonoma County Community Climate Action Plan.

Citations:

Stoner, G. Patrick. 2008. Community Choice Aggregation Pilot Project Final Report. California Energy Commission, PIER Renewable Energy Technologies Program. CEC-500-2008. http://www.energy.ca.gov/pier/project_reports/CEC-500-2008-091.html