Community Choice Energy Potential Greenhouse Gas Impacts Presentation to San Mateo CCE Advisory Committee

The Overview Electricity production one of the largest sources of greenhouse gas emissions in the country Most cities and the County have climate action plans that identify electricity consumption as a large source of GHG emissions CCE programs have, to date, shown to be less carbon intensive on a lbsCO2/MWH basis.

GHG Emissions By Sector in the US (2013) emissions/sources/electricity.html

SMC GHG Reduction Targets *for unincorporated County areas

SMC GHG Reduction Measures

CCE and the Environment (Sonoma Case)

City of San Mateo CAP TCO2 Reduced

City of San Mateo Climate Action Plan

San Mateo County Electricity Consumption in 2013: 4,500,000 MWH Lbs CO2 emitted per MWH for each load- serving entity (LSE) PG&E 427 MCE 365 SCP 294 Based on SMC Consumption, total tons of CO2 using each LSE’s emission rates740,043632,589509,438 Reductions in metric tons0107,454230,505 Percentage Reduction from PG&E Baseline015%31% Equivalent number of cars taken off the road022,62248,527 If the County’s Emission Rates Were…

Digging into the details (MCE)

For More Information… County of San Mateo, Office of Sustainability Seth Baruch Thank you!