2022-17 - Elect clean energy option through NOPEC

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Deferred 4/18/22 Baker, Bullock, Kepple, Litten, RESOLUTION NO. 2022-17 BY: Rader, Shachner A RESOLUTION to affirm the City of Lakewood's participation in NOPEC's electricity aggregation program and to elect affordable, turnkey clean energy service, among other consumer choices. WHEREAS, the City Of Lakewood, Ohio ("City") is a member of the Northeast Ohio Public Energy Council ("NOPEC") and participates in NOPEC's electricity aggregation program ("Aggregation Program"); and WHEREAS, the City has adopted sustainability goals, a part of which includes increasing the renewable attribute content of the electricity consumed in the City; and WHEREAS, the City is desirous of setting an example in the northeast Ohio region and to communities throughout our nation that responsible stewardship of our planet requires deliberate and intentional action on the part of local leaders; and WHEREAS, the City wishes to reduce the overall carbon footprint of the City of Lakewood community by selecting a new NOPEC program by which the environmental attributes of the City's electric aggregation through NOPEC are made up of 100 percent high quality, Green-e certified Renewable Energy Credits (RECs); and WI -AREAS, NOPEC has developed a new green program offering for its member communities with a 100 percent renewable energy content standard default electricity aggregation product that includes RECs for 100 percent of the participating customers' energy usage for any current or new NOPEC member community that selects this program for the upcoming three (3) year NOPEC electric aggregation term (from the January 2023 until January 2026 utility meter reads) ("Green Community Choice Program"); and WHEREAS, the Green Community Choice Program will include the additional cost of 100 percent Green-e certified RECs for 100 percent of the City's eligible Aggregation Program customers' energy usage who select this plan from among other plans available to Lakewood consumers participating in NOPEC's aggregation program; and WHEREAS, the additional cost for the REC content included in the Green Community Choice Program price is capped and will be no higher than 0.425 cents/kWh over the term of program; and WHEREAS, the City's eligible Aggregation Program customers will have the option at no cost to the customer to opt -in to the standard NOPEC default product not containing additional RECs, thereby foregoing the additional 0.425 cent/kWh price, or to choose another NOPEC product offering; and WHEREAS, the NOPEC Green Community Choice Program offering requires that a member community notify NOPEC in writing of its election to choose the Green Community Choice Program (100% REC standard default electricity aggregation product) for the upcoming three (3) year NOPEC Aggregation Program term with legislation adopted by the legislative authority of the community making the election; and WI -AREAS, as set forth in Section 2.12 of the Third Amended Charter of the City of Lakewood, this Council by a vote of at least two thirds of its members determines that this resolution is an emergency measure and that it shall take effect immediately, and that it is necessary for the immediate preservation of the public peace, property, health, and safety and welfare and to provide for the usual daily operation