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CleanPowerSF Announces Solar and Battery Storage Contract, Expanding the Program’s Renewable Energy Capacity and Increasing Grid Reliability for Program’s 380,000 Customers The SFPUC's community choice energy program, CleanPowerSF, executed two new renewable energy contracts that will increase energy capacity and storage infrastructure for the state’s power system, ensuring more electricity reliability for the program’s 380,000 customers in San Francisco.

SFPUC Extends Popular Emergency Residential Customer Assistance Program Through the End of the Year The SFPUC is extending its Emergency Residential Community Assistance Program, which is designed to help residential customers struggling to pay their water, sewer and Hetch Hetchy power bills during the COVID-19 pandemic. The

Local Artists Sirron Norris and Malik Seneferu to Create Temporary Artworks for Bayview-Hunters Point Neighborhood As Part of SFPUC’s Southeast Treatment Plant Improvement Project Bay Area visual artists Sirron Norris and Malik Seneferu have been selected by the San Francisco Arts Commission (SFAC) and the SFPUC to be the first of four artists to create large-scale temporary murals in the Bayview-Hunters Point neighborhood.

Celebrated Artist Walter Kitundu Awarded Public Art Commission for New Alameda Creek Watershed Center Artist, musician, and educator Walter Kitundu has been selected by the San Francisco Arts Commission (SFAC) and the SFPUC to create a multimedia public art installation for the SFPUC’s new Alameda Creek Watershed Center in Sunol.

SFPUC Encouraging Property Owners to Protect their Sewer Pipes As part of a public education campaign about the City’s infrastructure and homeowner responsibilities, the SFPUC is mailing informational notices throughout the City to raise awareness about sewer pipes owned by property owners, also known as laterals.

SFPUC to Provide Electricity Bill Credits to Eligible CleanPowerSF Customers This Fall As part of its ongoing efforts to help customers during the COVID-19 pandemic, the SFPUC will provide one-time bill credits to eligible CleanPowerSF customers in October. The relief program will offer credits of $50 for single-family homes, $3,000 for multi-family residential buildings and $750 for nonprofit or small commercial accounts—the equivalent to a month’s worth of savings on the average customer’s electricity bill.

SFPUC Celebrates Completion of Baker Beach Green Streets Project The SFPUC today celebrated the completion of the Baker Beach Green Streets project, a series of green infrastructure improvements that will help manage 2.6 million gallons of stormwater in the City’s Sea Cliff neighborhood.

SFPUC To Offer Virtual Tours of Facilities and Watershed Properties With the coronavirus pandemic preventing in-person visits to SFPUC sites, the agency is embarking on an innovative new program that will offer virtual tours of its watersheds, facilities and other properties, including some locations that never been visited before by the public.

SFPUC Launches New Financial Assistance Program to Help Small Business and Nonprofit Organizations Pay Water and Sewer Bills The SFPUC is launching a new program on Friday that will provide 20 percent discounts off water and sewer bills to help small businesses and nonprofit organizations cope with the COVID-19 pandemic.

SFPUC and Treasure Island Development Authority Install Near-Term Measures to Improve Power Reliability on Treasure Island The SFPUC and the Treasure Island Development Authority (TIDA) are embarking on a series of near-term infrastructure improvements to increase power reliability on Treasure Island.