download Local Power's free H BOND 'Got Solar?' Poster Local Power Fact Sheets: San Francisco Can Now Switch Electricity Providers & Convert 1/4 of Entire City to Green Power Without A Rate Increase (2004)

MONOPOLIES TO LOSE ENERGY EFFICIENCY FUNDS: California Regulators Implement Community Choice Law Provisions Requiring Independent Administration of Energy Efficiency Funds as Communities Seek to Administer Funds Locally (August, 2003)

GAS CRISIS ARTICLE: Natural Gas Prices Jump as California's Clueless Politicians Call for Construction of New Gas Power Plants to Avert New Energy Crisis (January, 2004)

California Administrative Law Judge Agrees With Local Power: Regulators Must Open Up Whole $300 Million?Yr. Energy Effiency Fund to Non-Utilities (August, 2003)

Local Power tells Assigned Commissioner Susan Kennedy that CPUC is Barred From Continuing Utility Control of Energy Efficiency Funds under Community Choice Law (July, 2003)

Local Power Criticizes California Regulators' Draft Decision on Energy Efficiency Funds (July, 2003)

Local Power Asks CPUC to Give Community Choice Aggregators Full Access to their Customers' Energy Efficiency Funds (May, 2003)

click here to learn more about Local Power's Solar Networking legislation Senate 697 by Senator Nell Soto or download a copy of the bill New Local Power Legislation: "Solar Networking bill," Senate 697 by Senator Nell Soto Would Allow Decentralized Renewable Energy Networks (April 2003)

California Community Choice Bill in State Senate: $300 Million/year in Conservation, Energy Efficiency Funds Still At Risk in Senate Appropriations Committee August 12 (August 7, 2002)

San Francisco to Build World's Largest Solar Power Network, Financed by "H Bond" or Solar Bond Authority Approved by Voters last Winter (July, 2002)

Proposition H Campaign Poster, 2001 Factsheet (PDF): President of San Francisco Board of Supervisors, Oakland Mayor Jerry Brown, League of Women Voters, Others Call for Community Control of Energy Efficiency Funds in California Community Choice Bill AB117 (June, 2002)

View A Petition Calling for Local Control of Energy Efficiency Money, Not Continuation of Failed Utility Control of Funds Paid by Customers. Print Sign and Fax to 925 377 0746 (PDF May, 2002)

Local Power Comments (PDF) to California Power Authority on its Draft Investment Plan (February, 2002)

Sign Petitions Against Nuclear Revival and For Community Choice at signpetition.org San Francisco Voters Approve Proposition H: Green Light for Proposed 50MW Solar Power Facility (November 8, 2001)

Download Fact Sheet on San Francisco Solar Iniative Campaign YES on PROP H

Download Global Warming Factoids on 50MW San Francisco Solar Initiative: How Big Is It?

California Governor Vetoes Unanimous Community Choice Bill(October 14, 2001)

Local Power secured approval from the Berkeley Waterfront Commission for a plan to erect a wind monitoring station on the Berkeley Pier, considered among the better locations for wind development on the BaySummary of Local Power Solar, Wind Projects in San Francisco Bay Area (July 11, 2001)

Read 1999 Fenn Article, 'Love is Hate, War is Peace, and Nuclear Power is Green: The Coming Nuclear Revival' California Community Choice Bill Faces Hostile Amendments in Senate Committee (June, 2001)

World's Largest Solar Plant Proposed by San Francisco Board President (May, 2001)

Let Us Build Urban Solar: A Policy Proposal to the California Energy Commission (May, 2001)

Local Power's Green Urban Agenda (April, 2001)

Local Power Testimony to Assembly Energy Crisis Committee on the California Community Choice bill AB48x

Local Power Proposes "Next Generation" Distribution Wheeling Amendment to California Community Choice Bill (April, 2001)

Local Power's California Community Choice Bill Sponsored by Assemblywoman Carole Migden (D-San Francisco) (February, 2001)

Cuyahoga County, Ohio, Neighbors Become Nation's Largest Clean Power Purchaser with Community Choice Agreement: Contract Doubles the Number of Americans with Non-monopoly Power, Quintuples Green Mountain's National Customer Base

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