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10 Year Operating
& Capital Budget

In the meantime, we are pursuing short- and mid-term
wholesale contracts to provide power to other public
entities, to fill revenue gaps and funding needs as the
Full Service portfolio grows. There will be increased
staffing needs and system upgrades, but these
operational risks can be easily mitigated since staff
and system are scalable as the sales grow.
Third, we must reprioritize our spending, reducing
spending on Hetchy supplies until sales grow to fully
utilize supply capacity. This will pace spending with
customer growth. Currently, half of our spending in the
ten-year financial plan is to operate and maintain our
Hetch Hetchy supply and transmission assets (see Fig. 3).

We maintain 380 MW of supply and transmission lines to serve 150 MW of
demand (see Fig. 4). The result is excess capacity and redundancies well
beyond what is needed to provide reliable service.

Supply: Energy
Efficiency/Local
Renewables $71M 3%

2015
Power
Enterprise
150 MW

60%
GHGFree
PG&E
and
Direct
Access

Power
Enterprise
300 MW

PG&E
Direct
Access
and CCA
addt’l Phases (tbd)

Distribution
$294M, 13%

$2.2B in spending
over 10 years

2025 PROJECTION

80%
GHGFree

City Programs
$246M, 11%

CCA
40 MW

- 50% to maintain
Hetchy system

Transmission:
Purchased
$254M, 11%

Transmission:
Grid $191M, 8%

Transmission:
Districts/
Newark
$62M 3%

Supply: Hetch Hetchy
$872M, 39%

Figure 3: This chart illustrates the Power Enterprise’s 10-Year Operating & Capital
Budget. The dark black line shows the 50% of the budget dedicated to maintaining the
Hetchy system.

Figure 2: This is a comparison of the greenhouse gas-free power provided to
San Francisco across the City’s power providers in 2015 and then projected in 2025.

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