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City prepares for life without utilities board
City staffers may temporarily make decisions about energy, water and wastewater projects — without the oversight of the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission — starting next month.
10 worst ideas of the week: July 13
A move by The City could leave our drinking water and transit prone to mischief.
Heat wave won’t bring blackouts
Despite high temperatures, San Francisco is expected to avoid the type of blackouts it had in the summer of 2006.
SFPUC suggests rebuilding old power plant
The agency that oversees electricity in San Francisco withdrew its support Tuesday for a plan to build city-owned fossil fuel-burning power plants.  Water gushes out of pavement in S.F.Water from a broken century-old underground pipe burst through the surface of Taraval Street on Monday morning, warping the asphalt, leaving businesses stranded without water for five hours and disrupting service on Muni’s L-Taraval train.  Reservoir on idle groundsIt is property with a view of Alcatraz and a structure that has gone unused for 60 years.
Cost-free turbine storage
It is important that your readers understand that all costs for the storage and maintenance of The City’s four combustion turbines over the last several years, as described in the June 24 Examiner, have been and continue to be reimbursed under the terms of the original settlement agreement with Williams Energy. San Francisco Public Utilities Commission customers and ratepayers do not pay for these costs or other development costs associated with the turbine project.
Power plant parts burning city money
As a City Hall debate on whether to build a new fuel-burning power plant in Potrero Hill has dragged on, San Francisco has spent more than $2.4 million storing and maintaining equipment for a plant that may not get built. |
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