Posts tagged: electricity deregulation California

Another View: Don’t end the clean-energy home program

Federal housing officials are ending a promising clean energy initiative. But the Property Assessed Clean Energy program is worth fighting for. California has been among the most enthusiastic supporters of PACE, both to make homes more energy efficient and to create green jobs.
Homeowners could get low-interest loans for solar panels, new water heaters or making [...]

Sunday July 11th, 2010 in , | No Comments »

PG&E’s Audacious Attempt to Enshrine Its Energy Monopoly In the California Constitution

The rich and corporate are abusing CA’s initiative process to enforce their profits through the state’s constitution.
Welcome to Gilded Age 2.0, a time when government has become an appendage to the super-rich, used by industrialists, financiers and corporate robber barons to monopolize the economy and strip regular citizens of power and money. One example of [...]

Friday May 21st, 2010 in , , , | No Comments »

Legislation that made Marin Clean Energy possible emerged from chaos of deregulation

Backup power generators were standing ready when the Marin County Fair opened in June 2001; if an electrical blackout struck, organizers didn’t want anyone stranded at the top of the Ferris wheel.
It was a real worry, but it was also an omen: It was during the long, hot and sometimes unusually dark summer of 2001, [...]

Thursday May 6th, 2010 in , | No Comments »

Why PG&E fears SSJID as well as Marin County

It is abundantly clear with each passing day that PG&E – a key player in plunging California into a downward spiral and helping set the stage for the recall of Gov. Gray Davis when it successfully greased politicians in Sacramento to deregulate power in the Golden State – never intended to play by the rules [...]

Saturday February 6th, 2010 in , | No Comments »

Regulators Approve Key Contract for New 48-Megawatt Sempra Generation Solar Power Plant

Largest Operational Photovoltaic Solar Facility in North America to Start Construction in January
Sempra Generation announced today that the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) has approved Pacific Gas & Electric’s (PG&E) contract to purchase 48 megawatts (MW) of photovoltaic solar power from Sempra Generation’s Copper Mountain Solar facility.
The CPUC’s approval of the contract signals the January [...]

Saturday December 19th, 2009 in , , , | No Comments »