{"content":[{"text":"February 5, 2021","bbox":{"left":0.117641,"top":0.281515,"width":0.134627,"height":0.020212000000000008}},{"text":"The Honorable Gavin Newsom \n c/o Alice Reynolds \n Governor, State of California \n State Capitol, First Floor \n Sacramento, CA 95814","bbox":{"left":0.117641,"top":0.316364,"width":0.245647,"height":0.08990800000000004}},{"text":"Via electronic email \n Alice.reynolds@gov.ca.gov","bbox":{"left":0.117641,"top":0.420909,"width":0.219273,"height":0.037636}},{"text":"Subject: Urgent Action Needed to Provide Reliable Electricity Service and Restore \n California’s Leadership on Climate and Clean Energy","bbox":{"left":0.117641,"top":0.473318,"width":0.689431,"height":0.038409000000000026}},{"text":"Dear Governor Newsom:","bbox":{"left":0.117641,"top":0.525454,"width":0.198243,"height":0.020212000000000008}},{"text":"We write with a sense of urgency and a shared commitment to provide affordable and reliable \n electricity service, rebuild California’s economy, improve public health in disadvantaged \n communities, and meet our immediate and long-term energy and climate requirements.","bbox":{"left":0.117641,"top":0.560303,"width":0.737118,"height":0.05506}},{"text":"Your immediate action and engagement are necessary to appoint thoughtful and committed \n leaders to the CPUC, CEC, and CAISO, and to direct the State’s energy agencies to deploy, \n procure, and plan for a diverse and complementary suite of renewable energy, storage, and \n transmission projects.","bbox":{"left":0.117641,"top":0.63,"width":0.719627,"height":0.07248399999999999}},{"text":"California’s agencies and the CAISO have confirmed that renewable energy was not the cause of \n the August 2020 outages during the west-wide heatwave: in fact, better planning and \n procurement of a diverse set of clean technologies could have avoided or mitigated the outages. \n Despite the acknowledgement that clean energy and reliability can and must go hand-in-hand, \n the state is poised to authorize contract extensions and expansions for fossil fuel resources, many \n of which were set to retire last year and are located in disadvantaged communities. Without \n significantly accelerating deployment and procurement of clean energy and capacity to reliably \n replace these resources, this course of action runs contrary to California’s climate and \n environmental justice commitments.","bbox":{"left":0.11766,"top":0.717121,"width":0.761437,"height":0.15960600000000003}}],"images_bbox":[{"left":0.117647,"top":0.090909,"width":0.130637,"height":0.078405},{"left":0.248284,"top":0.127273,"width":0.179493,"height":0.04203},{"left":0.428023,"top":0.118245,"width":0.274344,"height":0.051073},{"left":0.702614,"top":0.113699,"width":0.178049,"height":0.055619},{"left":0.117647,"top":0.169318,"width":0.096569,"height":0.096569},{"left":0.214215,"top":0.207829,"width":0.196324,"height":0.057937},{"left":0.420343,"top":0.2125,"width":0.185621,"height":0.053404},{"left":0.616421,"top":0.216667,"width":0.156291,"height":0.048851},{"left":0.773284,"top":0.186048,"width":0.106772,"height":0.079861}],"images_bbox_not_text_overlap":[{"left":0.117647,"top":0.090909,"width":0.130637,"height":0.078405},{"left":0.248284,"top":0.127273,"width":0.179493,"height":0.04203},{"left":0.428023,"top":0.118245,"width":0.274344,"height":0.051073},{"left":0.702614,"top":0.113699,"width":0.178049,"height":0.055619},{"left":0.117647,"top":0.169318,"width":0.096569,"height":0.096569},{"left":0.214215,"top":0.207829,"width":0.196324,"height":0.057937},{"left":0.420343,"top":0.2125,"width":0.185621,"height":0.053404},{"left":0.616421,"top":0.216667,"width":0.156291,"height":0.048851},{"left":0.773284,"top":0.186048,"width":0.106772,"height":0.079861}]}