Over a Century of Reliable Service

As a department of the City of Alameda, Alameda Power & Telecom is community-owned, making us your utility. Each year, we contribute money to the City's budget as part of a return on Alameda's initial investment of $40,000 made in 1887. This revenue supports such essential City services as our police, parks, and libraries.

Quick Facts:

• Alameda Power & Telecom celebrated its 120th year of service on July 11!
• Our electric generating resources are over 80% clean and renewable. 
• Alameda is the lowest greenhouse-gas-emitting community in the County and one of the lowest in the State.
• We will provide approximately one-half million dollars each year for the next 10 years to solar initiatives. 
• We will complete our first 10-year comprehensive energy-efficiency plan in September of this year.
• The lights stay on in Alameda more than 99.9999% of the time.
  
• We have approximately 33,900 electric meters, 9,600 cable television customers, and 6,600 Internet customers.
  
• This year, 650 Alamedans who have difficulty paying their bill will receive assistance from Alameda Power & Telecom.
  
• All meetings of the Public Utilities Board are open to the public, are televised, and are available as webcasts. Our meeting documents also are posted to the web.
• Our Fiscal Year 2008 Budget Includes:
• Operating Revenues of almost $58 million.
  
• A direct transfer to the City’s General Fund of $2.5 million.
  
• Electric rates that, overall, are 13% lower than PG&E’s.
  
• Telecommunications rates that are also lower.
  

Providing Public Benefits Programs:

California Assembly Bill 1890, passed in 1997 and modified in 2000, mandates that at least 2.85% of a publicly-owned electric utility’s annual net revenues be spent on activities in four categories:

• Cost-effective demand-side management services to promote energy efficiency and conservation
  
• New investment in renewable energy resources and technologies consistent with existing statutes and regulations which promote those resources and technologies
  
• Research, development, and demonstration programs for the public interest to advance science or technology, which is not adequately provided by competitive and regulated markets
  
• Services provided for low-income electricity customers, including, but not limited to, targeted energy-efficiency service and rate discounts.

Even before the passage of AB 1890, Alameda Power & Telecom was investing in renewable resources and providing other public benefits such as energy efficiency programs.
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