In February 2004, City and County Ordinance 086-04 established a San Francisco Community Choice Aggregation (CCA) program, directing SFPUC and San Francisco Environment to draft an implementation plan.  The ordinance was signed by Mayor Newsom in May 2004.  It laid out a path to ensure "the provision of clean, reasonably priced and reliable electricity" under local control.

Community Choice Aggregation (CCA) is a program enabled under a 2002 State law authored by then-Assemblywoman Carole Migden of San Francisco in response to California's energy crisis.  Under CCA, the City and County of San Francisco would become an electricity purchaser for residents and businesses currently served by PG&E. PG&E would continue to provide electricity transmission and distribution services, as well as meter-reading and customer billing.  Customers who wish not to participate in the City's CCA program will be able to opt-out and remain full customers of PG&E.

CCA presents significant opportunities for the City to increase the use of renewable energy here while maintaining reasonable prices for the electricity supply.  There are also substantial risks to developing CCA, meaning that careful planning is required for the City to proceed successfully.

In June 2007, the Board of Supervisors passed Ordinances 146-07 and 147-07 to adopt a CCA governance structure and to adopt a program description, revenue bond plan and draft implementation plan superseding an earlier draft implementation plan released by SFPUC and SFE in 2005.

The program description, revenue bond plan and draft implementation plan are attached below.  When the Board acted on Ordinances 146-07 and 147-07, they split the plan into two parts: the program description and revenue bond plan as one part and the draft implementation plan, along with associated appendices, as the other.  The implementation plan retains the title "Draft Implementation Plan" by decision of the Board.  Attached also are copies of the relevant City Ordinances and relevant Decisions of the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC), which is the State agency responsible for developing the operating rules for CCA statewide.