On June 19, a spirited noon-time crowd of over sixty people rallied outside PG&E’s Webster Street payment center in downtown Oakland to protest PG&E’s backing of AB 2145, the Monopoly Utility Power Grab of 2014. The bill is meant to prevent the establishment of new community-based energy programs under California’s 2002 Community Choice energy law. […]
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On Tuesday, June 3, 2014, the Alameda County Board of Supervisors voted to take the first steps in establishing an East Bay Community Choice energy program, approving $1.3 million in funding for an exploratory phase. The Board chambers were packed with supporters, many wearing yellow T-shirts with the slogan “Want a Choice?” and waving color-coordinated
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Californians for Energy Choice, a diverse coalition opposing an effort by the state’s investor-owned utilities to gut Community Choice energy, decried passage of AB 2145 by the California Assembly on May 28. Labeling the bill the “Utility Monopoly Power Grab of 2014,” the coalition noted that if passed by the California Senate and signed into
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