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NCPA’s mix of geothermal, hydroelectric, and natural gas resources is well positioned to help its members achieve California’s policy of a 60% Renewable Portfolio Standard (RPS) by 2030. NCPA’s 796 megawatt portfolio of power plants is approximately 55% greenhouse gas emission-free. Thirty years later, these resources continue to generate reliable, emission-free electricity for its member communities. NCPA made a major investment in renewable energy in the early 1980s when it developed two geothermal power plants and financed and built a 250 megawatt hydroelectric facility. Most critically for its 16 members, NCPA over the past four decades has constructed and today operates and maintains a fleet of power plants that is among the cleanest in the nation, and that provides reliable and affordable electricity to more than 700,000 Californians. NCPA members include municipalities, a rural electric cooperative, and other publicly owned entities for which the not-for-profit agency provides such services as the purchase, aggregation, scheduling, and management of electrical energy.
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The Northern California Power Agency (NCPA), a California Joint Action Agency, was established in 1968 by a consortium of locally owned electric utilities to make joint investments in energy resources that would ensure an affordable, reliable, and clean supply of electricity for customers in its member communities.