Tell Your Supervisor: Support SF’s Home Electrification Legislation
Updated 5.27.2025
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Call Script
If your supervisor is Supervisor Melgar, Chen, or Mahmood, call them and tell them:
My name is __________. I am a constituent, and my address is ________. I am a member of Indivisible SF.
I’m calling to ask the Supervisor to support Supervisor Mandelman’s proposed legislation to require all-electric heating, cooling, and cooking systems. The file number is 250702. Thank you.
Background
From the SF Climate Emergency Coalition:
San Francisco has committed to achieving net zero greenhouse emissions by 2040—just 15 years from now. Nearly half of the City’s greenhouse gas emissions currently come from its buildings, primarily from gas-fired appliances used for cooking and space & water heating. Rapid building electrification along with a transition to 100% clean electricity is one of the best paths the City can take to meet its net zero goal on time.
In 2021, San Francisco passed legislation, introduced by Supervisor Rafael Mandelman, requiring new construction to be all-electric. Now, Board President Mandelman has introduced another important piece of building electrification legislation: an all-electric major renovations amendment to the City’s building code. This will require major building renovation projects to install only electric systems for heating/cooling, water heating and cooking. This is a timely and necessary move towards an existing building stock that no longer burns fossil fuels.
As in the new construction ordinance, there will be some exceptions to the new all-electric major renovations requirement: buildings where 1) all-electric design is technically or physically infeasible, 2) commercial cooking applications exist, and 3) an existing gas-fueled system replacement or upgrade is ≤5 years old. For the most part, the all-electric restrictions will go into effect 30 days from passage of the amendment, although some types of renovations will be given more time to comply. Until 2028, 100% affordable housing renovations will be exempt, and non-residential-to-residential building conversions will be exempt until 2031.
The introduction of this amendment could not have come at a more critical time! The California State Assembly recently passed legislation that will freeze all residential building code changes through 2031, as of October 1 of this year. Since roughly half of San Francisco’s planet-warming building emissions come from residential buildings, it’s critical that this all-electric major renovations amendment be signed by Mayor Lurie before October 1.
Supervisor Mandelman and the other sponsors of this amendment (Supervisors Melgar, Fielder and Mahmood) are aware of this deadline and aim to move the legislation forward as quickly as possible, with the goal of sending it to the Mayor for signature in early September.
Resources
Letter from the SF Climate Emergency Coalition supporting the proposal