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General Comments

1.	General Comment:  The scope of the Scoping Plan is tremendous. 
For example the City of Sacramento, a typical city, has
approximately 1.3% of the State’s population.  Based on this, the
City’s share of various aspects of the plan are:
•	416,000 MWh and 10 million therms need to be saved; this
suggests that every building within the City needs to become 10%
to 12% more efficient, on the average (page 21).
•	2,500 solar water heaters need to be installed (page 21).
•	13,000- 3 kW (40 MW) solar photovoltaic systems need to be
installed by 2017 (Page 30).  As of early 2008, the City has 3
MW’s of solar installed within City limits and may have 6 MW at
end of 2008.
•	Per capita water use reduction of 20% achieved by 2020 (page
28).

Much of the effort to achieve the above will rest with our
electric and natural gas utilities (SMUD and PG&E), however it
seems that great coordination with local jurisdictions will be
necessary in order to achieve the goals above.

Consider including some examples of how this plan will affect
local jurisdictions and up-play to the extent possible that the
State will assist efforts in helping cities fund the
implementation.

2.	Page 16: Please clarify the banking of CO2.  Does this mean
that CO2 that is saved during one particular year can be used to
offset excess CO2 that is emitted in a different calendar year?  I
was under the impression that the vintage of a CO2 savings project
had to match the vintage of the excess CO2 that is generated.

3.	Page 17: Please clarify how the 427 million metric tons that
was emitted in 1990 and which is the 2020 goal, relates to the 365
million metric tons identified in Table 4 and Figure 2.

4.	Page 46: Define “Valley of Death”