Energy Committee

Meet Jared Blumenfeld, San Francisco's environment director

Wednesday, July 28, 7 (sharp) - 8 pm, Yosemite Room, Sierra Club National Headquarters, 85 Second Street (at Mission; two blocks from Montgomery BART), San Francisco.

Jared Blumenfeld, who has served as director of San Francisco's Department of the Environment since 2001, will address the Chapter's Energy Committee at its July meeting. Mr. Blumenfeld will discuss the Department's various programs aimed at promoting renewable energy, conservation, and clean air in San Francisco.

The Department of the Environment helped write the city's Electricity Resource Plan, which calls for increases in energy conservation and solar to help shut down the polluting Hunters Point Power Plant. Now the department will work with the Public Utilities Commission to develop an implementation plan for Community Choice Aggregation, which will free San Francisco residents from PG&E's electricity monopoly (see article).

Other department programs include acquiring cleaner Muni buses, Generation Solar (promoting residential and commercial solar installations), and the hydrogen-fuel-cell demonstration project.

For more information, contact Doug Beach, acting Energy Committee chair, at (415) 608-1439 or