Community Resources & Information
SVCE has committed nearly $24M to support the thirteen member agencies’ decarbonization efforts. Explore the resources SVCE offers to the member agencies, Board of Directors, and community stakeholders below.
Highlights
Funding Community Projects
- $5 million Community Resilience
- $3.6 million Decarbonization Grants
Improving Planning
Policies & Permitting
- $3M Permit Modernization
- $1.9M Policy Experimentation
- $1M Reach Codes
- $300K EV Fleet Planning
Support Engagement
& Collaboration
- Member Agency Working Group
- SVTEC
- Federal and State Grant Coordination
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Additional Information
Funding Community Projects
Open Grant Applications
Noncompetitive Member Agency Grants
SVCE’s Noncompetitive Member Agency Grant provides $3 Million for the thirteen SVCE member agencies. Each member agency will be awarded funding to invest in a project that supports building or transportation electrification, energy resilience, or community engagement on these topics. The purpose of this grant is to support each member agency’s clean energy and climate goals by providing a wide range of project options that address decarbonization. Projects can be located at public sites or municipal operation facilities. Each member agency will receive a baseline of $100K in grant funding, with the remaining grant funding divided based on the agencies’ percentage of SVCE electric load.
See more information, resources, and applications here.
Building a Resilient Region
The SVCE Community Grant Program is investing more than $11 million to support energy resilience, building and transportation electrification, and innovative community engagement for clean, electric solutions. SVCE-funded projects help our region reduce the impacts of power outages from events such as earthquakes, PG&E Public Safety Power Shutoffs, storms, floods, and wildfires while supporting decarbonization and local job creation.
Investing in
Critical Community Sites
Demonstrating a
Clean Future
Cultivating
Community Engagement
Improving Planning, Policies, & Permitting
Reach Codes for EV Readiness
The Reach Code effort provided model codes and full support to member agencies in adopting and implementing building codes requiring zero-emission new buildings. Every SVCE member agency adopted some form of reach code for the 2022 building code cycle. The focus now shifts to existing buildings in 2023 and beyond.
Permit Modernization & Policy Experimentation
SVCE is supporting our member agencies on opportunities for modernizing permitting and adopting innovative policies to help upgrade buildings to efficient, electric technologies. The SVCE Board has allocated up to $4M to support this work and direct assistance is available to all member agencies to support their staff (technical consultant time, community engagement support, application resources, etc.).
These collective activities are designed to remove friction and better prepare local jurisdictions for the significant increase in permits expected to result from the Bay Area Air Quality Management District’s rule amendments that restricts the sale of nitrous oxide-emitting water heaters and furnaces starting in 2027.
EV Fleet Planning
EV fleet planning offers technical assistance to member agencies to electrify their vehicle fleets. Starting in 2024, state regulations now require local agencies to ensure that 50% of new medium- and heavy-duty vehicle purchases are zero emission. SVCE is offering a free technical assistance program to all member agencies to help meet these requirements.
SVCE’s Technical Assistance program offers fleet electrification planning for compliance with Advanced Clean Fleets, greenhouse gas emissions modeling, charging infrastructure needs assessments, permit-ready site designs, and more.
Supporting Engagement & Collaboration
Member Agency Working Group
The Member Agency Working Group or MAWG is comprised of a collection of staff from SVCE member agencies and meets monthly. The working group focuses on receiving the latest information about SVCE programs, providing input on SVCE program development, and sharing general information among the group about other local, state and federal programs.
Quarterly Program Reports
Interested in learning more about the additional programs available to residents and businesses in your community to help them go all-electric? Check out the full list of rebates and programs.
Governing Documents
Strategic Plan
The Silicon Valley Clean Energy strategic plan aligns our initiatives with our mission and values. This plan recognizes the goals we intend to accomplish and highlights strategies and tactics we will employ to achieve these goals.
Silicon Valley Clean Energy Strategic Plan, October 2023
Silicon Valley Clean Energy Formation
Silicon Valley Clean Energy (SVCE) is required by the Public Utilities Code to draft and submit and Implementation Plan to the California Public Utilities Commission. The Implementation Plan was approved by the Board of Directors at the July 13, 2016 meeting.
Implementation Plan and Statement of Intent – Submitted July 14, 2016
Addendum No. 1 – Implementation Plan and Statement of Intent – Submitted December 20, 2017
Before forming Silicon Valley Clean Energy (SVCE), our Partnership evaluated whether the Community Choice Energy (CCE) model would not just work for, but also benefit, our residents and businesses here in Silicon Valley. Detailed in the reports below are the specific outcomes anticipated for the region after launching Silicon Valley’s first locally controlled, not-for-profit organization to procure energy on behalf of our communities:
