SF supervisors approve utilities’ move to relieve energy debts

The San Francisco Board of Supervisors approved allowing energy utility companies CleanPowerSF and Hetch Hetchy Power to use $1.3 million in federal funds to address energy debts accumulated due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

In a retroactive request, supervisors unanimously passed on Tuesday the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission’s February move to credit $1.2 million and $103.2 million, respectively, to residential customers who had unpaid energy bills.