Print Media on Local Power Activities
Last Update March, 2009
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Recent News About Local Power
Fast Company Magazine Feature by Anya Kamenetz, Paul Fenn vs. PG&E (2008)
Read recent SF WEEKLY article on Local Power Green Power Plan for San Francisco (Jan 2009)
CleanTech.com: Sidestepping the Utilities to Go Green (2008)
Marin Independent Journal: San Anselmo, Belvedere Join Marin CCA (Nov 10, 2008)
San Francisco Bay Guardian: Local Power CCA Report
CBS News: Marin Approves Clean Energy Authority for Climate (Nov 19, 2008)
Press 2008-2001
“New York Mayor Touts Energy Conservation for Savings,” Bloomberg, August 21, 2008
“California Cities to Offer Solar Loan Program,” GreenTech News, July 23, 2008
“Firm stresses ‘big picture’ in pitch to city council on alternative energy sources,” The Post, Ohio, 7/3/08
“Energy expert urges power-buying network,” by N. Claussen, Athens News, Ohio, 7/3/08
Marin, PG&E fight shapes up (Cover Story), by Brad Breithaput, Marin Independent Journal, 4/17/08
A power play for energy control” (Cover Story), by Kelly Zito, San Francisco Chronicle, April 16, 2008
“The Fox Report,” by Claudia Cowan, Fox National News, April 7, 2008
“Companies Give Folks Solar Help to Go Green,” by Paul Davidson, USA Today, 3/30/08
“Rising Above the Fog,” Photon International, March, 2008
“Financing Green Projects,” by Ken Silverstein, EnergyBiz Insider, March 3, 2008
“Power Purchase Agreements to Spike,” by Rachel Barron, Green Tech Media, 2/14/08
Public Power Lite Looking Very Green, by Mark Braly, Renewable Energy Access, 2/13/08
Buying Pools Go Green, by Ken Silverstein, EnergyBiz Insider, February 1, 2008
“Cheap and green? Can the new public power deliver what it promises?,” North Coast Journal, 6/21/2007
“Cheap green energy lures S.F. back to open market,” by Daniel Weintraub, Sacramento Bee, 6/17/2007
“A Major Power Switch,” Editorial, San Francisco Chronicle, June 13, 2007
“PUC to Explore Electricity Sources,” San Francisco Chronicle, June 13, 2007
“Don’t Let PG&E Kill CCA,” San Francisco Bay Guardian, June 13, 2007
“City-Run Energy Plan Faces Key Vote,” Headline Cover Story, San Francisco Examiner, June 6, 2007
“PG&E Green With Envy Over San Francisco Energy Efforts,” California Energy Markets, 2/23/2007
“Risks and Rewards of Community Energy Program,” Berkeley Daily Planet, February 28, 2006
“The Buzz in San Francisco is for Green Energy,” Sierra Club Yodeler, January-February, 2006
“Solar Horizon: Energy Proposal Heads for a Key Vote,” San Francisco Bay Guardian, Dec. 14, 2005
“A New Day for CCA,” San Francisco Bay Guardian, August 16, 2005
“Tiptoeing Toward Public Power,” San Francisco Bay Guardian, June 15, 2005
“We Have the Power: The Bay Area Can Lead the Nation Towards a Clean Energy Future (cover story with multiple stories on Community Choice and H Bonds),” Sierra Club Yodeler, May-June, 2005
“Co-op Power,” San Francisco Bay Guardian, May 4, 2005
“City Could Buy, Sell Energy by ’07,” San Francisco Examiner, April 18, 2005
“Island Utility Inspires Public Power Push,” Easy Bay Business Times, Oct 4, 2004
“Renewable Energy Boom in San Francisco,” Solar Access, Feb 20, 2004
“San Francisco Leaders Declare Energy Independence” Progressive Newswire, Feb 18, 2004
“Purchasing Pools May Get Rolling” Power Marketers, Jan 28, 2004
“PUC OKs New Utility Guidelines,” Contra Costa Times, Jan 23, 2004
“Community Choice Public Power Debated,” San Francisco Examiner, Feb 18, 2004
“San Francisco Eyes Electricity Purchase Plan,” Forbes.com, May 20, 2004
“Bill Would Require City to Buy Cleaner Energy,” San Francisco Chronicle, May 17, 2004
“Green Cities,” Mother Jones, Aug 2, 2001
“Solar Bonds, 50 Megawatt Plan Announced in S.F.,” Fox News (National TV), May 17, 2001
“A Foggy Idea of Solar Power in San Francisco,” Los Angeles Times, May 17, 2001
“California's Deregulation Disaster,” by Harvey Wasserman, The Nation, Jan 21, 2001
“Advocate Aims to Paint Local Power Green,” Contra Costa Sun, Feb 11, 2000
Multiple interviews and appearances on KPFA FM, Pacifica Radio, 1997-2008
Press - 1990's
San Francisco Examiner on Local Power Implementation Plan (April 18, 2005)
Bay Guardian Editorial on Fenn's Implementation Plan for San Francisco (February 9, 2005)
FORBES MAGAZINE article on Local Power's San Francisco Energy Independence Ordinance" (Feb 20 2004)
REUTERS article on Local Power's San Francico Energy Independence Ordinance (February 17, 2004)
SAN FRANCISCO EXAMINER article on Energy Independence Ordinance (February 18, 2004)
SOLAR ACCESS article on Local Power's San Francisco Energy Independence Ordinance (February 20, 2004)
Institute for Local Self Reliance's "Democratic Energy" Article on Local Power's Efforts in San Francisco(March 28, 2005)