San Francisco-based Energy Localization Company, created Community Choice Aggregation, Solar Bonds & other tools to offer communities A Revolution in Power.
Columbus, Ohio, voted to allow the city to establish a program aggregating retail electric load within municipal boundaries in a 75.6% majority. The program would allow the city to procure 100% of (community's) electric power with renewable energy by 2023 https://t.co/uIwYsV6G0W
'What's really exciting about this particular ballot initiative passing in Columbus... 'People on both sides of the political aisle view this as an opportunity ... in the path towards a broader economic recovery.' https://t.co/4TlAFldoDi
Community Choice Aggregators say they will use resource diversity, distributed energy resources and load management to lead California beyond its 2030 renewables goals. https://t.co/jOGDD7PX71
Back in the 1990s, Paul Fenn decided to write a law. Now, there are 19 government-run community choice energy agencies up and running in California and more to come. https://t.co/qBxyitmhbU
A growing number of California communities are ditching big utilities for programs run by local governments. The state just made it more expensive https://t.co/0ctWpWccnZ via @markets
Picker's "Green Book": As Community Choice Energy covers the entire California coast, state regulator sees only a crisis of authority https://t.co/HPpRVjE5Dk
The California Public Utilities Commission "should examine its own role in discouraging innovations by CCAs rather than flirt with an illegal and dangerous dream of re-establishing its discredited empire," Fenn said. https://t.co/tzrf46nw3p
"Seeking control over the way their electricity was generated and paid for, Cape Cod residents banded together two decades ago to bypass the local utility and buy power in bulk. Driven in part by local mandates to shift to green-en…https://t.co/HHwXymXUec https://t.co/OtyCfnaL7K
CCA already supplies 4% of the nation's development pipeline for solar; as it takes off in NY State and reaches 85% of all California IOU customers, this # is about to get much bigger. https://t.co/1gru3LUF63
"One of the biggest ideas challenging today’s utility business model is the customer choice aggregation (CCA) movement in California." https://t.co/B6AWUsMeNB