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Make 2024 the Year to Go Electric
Visit eHub to explore your options
Read More
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Winter Chills Can Lead to High Energy Bills
Resources to help save energy and money
More Information
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New Chair and Vice Chair for the SVCE Board of Directors
Newly elected leaders for 2024
Learn More
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Extended Deadline Announced for Education Fund
Receive up to $10,000
See Details
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Highlights from the 2023 Reflect & Recharge Event
Special end-of-year event
More Details
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Get Inspired by Your Neighbors
Electric Showcase Award Winner
See Their Story
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Make 2024 the Year to Go Electric
As a Silicon Valley Clean Energy (SVCE) customer, you are already receiving clean electricity, but why not make it your goal for 2024 to use your clean power to improve your home’s air quality, increase comfort and fight climate change.
Removing greenhouse gas emissions from your home and commute can start with the choices you make on how you heat and cool your home, what you cook on, and what you drive. eHub is SVCE’s online tool for renters and homeowners who want information and resources on the different ways to go electric. If you want to begin your electrification journey, refer to this article for initial steps you can take this year.
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Electric Vehicle Assistant
Browse over 150 new and pre-owned EV models, shop for EV chargers, calculate savings, and discover incentives that are available to you.
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Appliances Assistant
Shop for efficient, electric appliances for your home. Plus, get $50 off induction cooktops until February 29.
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Solar + Battery Assistant
Discover how you can increase your home’s energy resilience with solar+battery. Get $1,000 off a panel upgrade with eligible installations.
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Winter Chills Can Lead to High Energy Bills
As your community-owned electricity provider, SVCE is committed to providing clean energy at lower costs – maintaining a 4% discount into 2024 – several factors will contribute to bill increases this winter season. Here are a few:
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Higher energy rates. Last fall, the California PUC approved a request from PG&E to raise electricity rates by 13% starting January 1, 2024. PG&E said this increase is necessary to fund wildfire mitigation projects including efforts to underground roughly 1,230 miles of power lines in high fire-risk communities.
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Increased Usage. As temperatures drop across Silicon Valley, households and businesses are more likely to raise their thermostats and cozy up indoors. Many customers also used more electricity over the holidays and will see this reflected when they receive their January energy statement.
How can you protect your wallet from rising costs?
- Borrow an SVCE DIY Home Energy Savings Toolkit from your local library. The toolkit includes energy saving tools like weather stripping and LED bulbs to increase efficiency for your home.
- Residents can set the thermostat to 68 degrees, keep windows and doors closed, draw blinds and curtains, wear layers and turn off the heat when not at home, if possible.
- For homeowners, electrifying your home can lead to savings and help keep your home safe, clean and efficient. Residents and businesses can explore available rebates here.
- Additional financial support may be available through payment assistance programs like CARE/FERA, or setting up a payment plan directly with PG&E.
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Celebrating the New Chair and Vice Chair for the Silicon Valley Clean Energy Board of Directors
At its January meeting, the Silicon Valley Clean Energy Board of Directors elected a new Chair and Vice Chair to one-year terms. For 2024, Saratoga Councilmember Tina Walia will serve as Chair, and Los Altos Hills Councilmember George Tyson will serve as Vice Chair.
Chair Walia joined the SVCE Board of Directors in 2021 and served as Vice Chair in 2023. As Vice Chair, Walia voted to approve three long term contracts for renewable energy projects and supported the agency in its selection of the new CEO, Monica Padilla, who will succeed Girish Balachandran after his retirement in April 2024. Vice Chair Tyson has served on the SVCE Board of Directors since 2019, and previously served as Vice Chair in 2022 and Chair in 2023. Read the press release for more information about the newly elected leaders.
As a joint powers agency, SVCE is governed by a board of directors comprised of one elected representative from each member community. Board meetings are open to the public and held virtually on the second Wednesday of the month.
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Extended Deadline Announced for Education Fund
SVCE is pleased to announce an extension of the deadline for the Education Fund – adjusting it from January 19 to February 2. Elementary, middle, high school and community college students can be awarded up to $10,000 to fund creative projects that address how to reduce emissions and fight climate change. Projects can range from art installations and student-led events to videos, journalism projects, student competitions, robotics and more.
To be eligible for the grant, students must be currently enrolled in an elementary, middle, high school, or accredited community college in our service territory. If you are seeking inspiration, past projects that received funding are described on the webpage.
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Highlights from the 2023 Reflect & Recharge Event
In December, SVCE hosted “Reflect and Recharge,” a special event to offer stakeholders, including city councilmembers, member agency staff, community leaders and SVCE staff, an update on the current state of building decarbonization and the statewide clean energy transition. The event featured expert speakers and State Senators Josh Becker and Dave Cortese. For more information, read our blog post on the takeaways from each speaker.
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Get Inspired by Your Neighbors
Your neighbors who have upgraded to clean electric living are enjoying increased comfort and reduced exposure to toxic pollutants in their home. Curt, one of the Electric Showcase Awards winners from Gilroy, upgraded his 1985 home by installing a heat pump water heater, heat pump space heating and cooling, and driving an electric vehicle.
Curt enjoys the effectiveness and efficiency of the heat pump space heating and cooling equipment. He expressed his satisfaction, saying, “the contractor upgraded our heating ducts, and this allowed our heat pump to provide much more even heat across the rooms in the house, while doing all of it for essentially no monthly cost due to the solar panels.”
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