States With Community Choice Laws

Local Power has helped some of America's largest energy markets adopt Community Choice Aggregation laws, starting with Massachusetts in 1997, and followed by Ohio in 1999, California in 2002, and New Jersey in 2003. Today, CCA represents a major market with over a million Americans served by CCA Suppliers.

Background

California Governor Signs Community Choice Bill, AB117, To Allow Communities to Choose Alternative Electricity Services Providers (September 24, 2002)

Republican Ohio Gets Community Choice in Bipartisan Vote

How is Utility Restructuring Working Out in Massachusetts? Restructuring Plans & Stranded Costs: One Public Advocate's Perspective, By Matthew C. Patrick, Executive Director, Cape and Islands Self-Reliance Corporation (October 15,1998)

Texas to Allow "Community Choice" Pilot Project in 1999

"Community Choice Means Competition, Not Slamming," by Blossom Peretz:
The New Jersey Ratepayer Advocate, a leading Proponent of Community Choice, Says "Opt-Out" Municipal Aggregation is Essential for Consumers, and Refutes a Common Utility Criticism of Community Choice.

New Jersey Ratepayer Advocate Blossom Peretz, Cities Face Off with Regulators Over "Community Choice"

• Guest Opinion: "Community Choice and Municipal Aggregation" by Scott Ridley

• New Jersey Division of Ratepayer Advocate Director Blossom Peretz Relates Calls for Municipal Aggregation as Protection for Low Income Consumers: "Protecting Energy Affordability For Low Income Customers in a Changing Market"

• New Jersey Division of Ratepayer Advocate Director Blossom Peretz Calls for Community Choice with Address: Municipal Aggregation: A Community Response to Emerging Competitive Opportunities"

• MASSACHUSETTS LEGISLATURE PASSES NATION'S FIRST PRO-"COMMUNITY CHOICE" DEREGULATION BILL (November 19, 1997)
  

• Text of Community Choice provision of Massachusetts Law, Section 247
  

• Redrafted Massachusetts "Community Choice" Electricity Franchising Bill. Petition of Senator Mark C. Montigny, with Representatives John F. Quinn, William M. Straus, Antonio F. D. Cabral, Joseph B. McIntyre and Robert M. Koczera of New Bedford, Massachusetts, for legislation to allow consumers the choice to participate in electric market competition through their communities.
  

• Massachusetts: Original "Competitive Franchising" bill, Senate 447 submitted in 1994 for 1995-96 Legislative Sessions by Senator Mark Montigny (D-New Bedford), Chair of the Senate Committee on Energy)

• California: Toward Utility Rate Normalization (TURN) Community Access Proposal