Clean Power Campaign

What it reported doing in 2024

CPC Program Accomplishments for 2023: The Clean Power Campaign gives the public interest a seat at every table where important decisions are being made about energy. We believe policy matters. Public agencies at all levels help choose which energy resources and technologies receive public and private investment. These agencies also help choose how and where that energy is produced and distributed. These agencies also choose what a projects public-health and air-quality impacts are, and what it all winds up costing us in the end.CPC takes the fight to the utilities, oil companies, car companies and others to reduce the use of dirty fuels, require greater energy efficiency in appliances, vehicles, and buildings, and to generate more power from clean and renewable resources. We fight for stronger laws regulating emission of toxic air pollution and climate gases. We lobby the state Legislature, Governor, Air Resources Board, Public Utility Commission, California Energy Commission, California IndependentSystem Operator, Local and regional air quality districts, city councils and wherever important decisions are being made about the environmental and public health attributes of the energy we use.CPC lobbied the state legislature for the passage of clean energy transmission infrastructure and western regional transmission organization legislation. CPC worked to bridge policy differences between clean energy developers, environmental and conservation non-profit organizations.CPC worked to Advance the following state clean energy transmission and western transmission organization legislation in the California Legislature.SB 619 (Padilla) - Expands the facilities eligible to be certified by the CEC to include electrical transmission lines carrying electricity from certain other facilities that are in the state, regardless of whether the electricity is carried to a point of junction with any interconnected electrical transmission system.SB 420 (Becker) - Requires the Governor to identify a lead agency to monitor clean energy and electrical transmission facility planning and deployment, and require that agency, in consultation with the Natural Resources Agency, to identify those electrical transmission facility projects necessary to maintain system reliability and to meet specified targets.AB 914 (Freidman) - Establishes a two-year time limit, from the date the application is submitted, for a lead state agency to complete California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) review and approve or deny an application for an electrical infrastructure project.AB 538 (Holden) - Delegates to the California Energy Commission (CEC) the ability to authorize the transformation of the California Independent System Operator (CAISO) into a multistate regional transmission system.AB 1358 (Muratsuchi) - Requires the state energy agencies, as part of their joint report reviewing and evaluating the statewide 100% clean energy policy (SB 100, De Len, Chapter 312, Statutes of 2018), to develop a statewide transmission plan to facilitate the timely attainment of the SB 100 Policy and the California Renewables Portfolio Standard (RPS) program targets. CPC continued to support and advocate for the following legislation that focuses on accelerating the states 100% clean energy targets, in addition to legislative efforts to improve transmission planning, evaluate low-cost alternatives for transmission financing, and remove existing impediments that delay transmission upgrades and construction. In addition, a resolution on western grid regionalization.AB 2696 (E. Garcia) & SB 887 (Becker)Requires the CEC, in consultation with the California Infrastructure and Economic Development Bank (IBank), the Governors Office of Business and Economic Development (GO-Biz), the CAISO, and the CPUC, to conduct a study to review potential lower-cost ownership and alternative financing mechanisms for new transmission facilities needed to meet the states clean energy and climate targets.SB

Financial Efficiency

• Mission deployment rate: 84.9%; rating input score 85
• Program expense ratio: 84.2%; rating input score 84

Transparency & Controls

• Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
• Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100

Sustainability

• Operating margin: -0.8%; rating input score 31; 31st percentile among comparable filings
• Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.47; rating input score 36; 36th percentile among comparable filings
• Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.27; rating input score 15; 15th percentile among comparable filings
• Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings

Growth

• Program expense growth: -3.2% per year; rating input score 0; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
• Revenue growth: 0.8% per year; rating input score 100; 25th percentile among comparable filings
• Asset growth: 12.6% per year; rating input score 100; 68th percentile among comparable filings