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Background Documents on Local Power's Localism Work in Redefining Energy - new at Local Power Inc.

HELEN CALDICOTT, ROSS GELBSPAN, Energy and Climate Experts Quotes Supporting Out Original San Francisco Energy Plan for 360 MW (Adopted in 2004) (PDF)

AN OLD LOCAL POWER SLIDESHOW FOR CCA 101: Califoria Community Choice Opportunity (15M PDF)

Local Power News Archive 1993 to 2007 - Deregulation, Energy Crisis, Climate Collapse, Fuel Globalization, and the Community Choice Movement

SPECIAL EXCLUSIVE: "CLIMATE PANIC": Lovelock, Panicked Scientists Join Industry's Orwellian Call for Nuclear Revival as Energy Markets Fail to Answer Apocalyptic Climate Crisis (EXCLUSIVE article by Paul Fenn)

SAN FRANCISCO TO VOTE ON COMMUNITY CHOICE ENERGY INDEPENDENCE PLAN: S.F. Board of Supervisors Prepare to Vote on Local Power Implementation Plan: City to Switch Electricity Providers in 2007 & Build 360 Megawatts of New Solar, Wind, Efficiency, Conservation Technologies, With a 51% Renewable Portfolio Standard by 2017 (March, 2007)

SAN DIEGO-AREA COALITION PLAN WOULD REPLACE POWER PLANT WITH SOLAR POWER FACILITIES: Environmental Health Coalition Releases Local Power Plan to Use Community Choice and H Bonds to Build Wind Farm, Pumped Hydro, Solar Thermal and Photovoltaics Facilities For Competitively Priced Power (February, 2007)

SONOMA COUNTY GROUP PREPARES CLIMATE ACTION PLAN: 20% Across-the-Board Greenhouse Gas Reduction from 1990 Levels by 2015 Using Community Choice (January, 2007)

MARIN COUNTY PREPARES COMMUNITY CHOICE PLAN TO GO 50% GREEN: Funds Implementation Plan for 2007 (2006)

OAKLAND, BERKELEY, EMERYVILLE PLAN 50% GREEN PLAN FOR COMMUNITY CHOICE: CCA Now Bay Area-Wide (2006)

SAN LUIS OBISPO, VENTURA COUNTIES MOBILIZE AGAINST DIABLO NUCLEAR, LIQUEFIED NATURAL GAS TERMINAL: CCA Campaign Pits Renewable Energy Against Fossil, Nuclear Investments of Utility PG&E (2006)

CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY CHOICE REGULATIONS COMPLETED BY STATE REGULATORS: CPUC Decisions Favorable for Urban Green Power Conversions, Climate Action Plans (2006)

THE PLAN: San Francisco Commission Approves Local Power Community Choice Implementation Plan: H Bonds to Finance 360 Megawatts of Local Green Energy Installations in First Three Years, With 51% "Build Not Buy" Renewables Portfolio Standard by 2017 (2005)

NATIONAL ENERGY FIRM NIXON PEABODY REPORTS ON COMMUNITY CHOICE TO SAN FRANCISCO COMMISSION - THUMBS UP TO USE OF H BOND FINANCING AUTHORITY & BOARD OF CONTROL TO IMPLEMENT CCA PROGRAM (November, 2005)

GOLDMAN SCHOOL REPORTS TO STATE REGULATORS ON COMMUNITY CHOICE: A Judge-Commissioned UC Berkeley Public Policy Report Released on Community Choice in California (June, 2005)

GREEN FORTY-NINER - S.F. Leads Forty-Nine California Cities and Counties Now Seeking To Implement Community Choice, Many With 40% Renewables Goal - (November, 2004)

CALIFORNIA ELECTRIC RE-MONOPOLIZATION BILL UP FOR SENATE UTILITY COMMITTEE VOTE: Edison-Drafted Nunez bill AB2006 Would Give Utilities Back Monopolies They Were Paid Billions To Give Up, With Big Business Loophole (June 22, 2004)

San Francisco Approves Energy Independence Ordinance to Find Alternative Power Provider and Build Citywide Solar Energy Networ (May, 2004)k

San Francisco and Over a Dozen California Cities - 10% of Entire Market - Seek to Leave Utility Procurement in 2005 (April, 2004) Local Power, RACE Coalition Oppose Utility Plans to Make California Power Grid Depend on Imported Foreign Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) (April, 2004) California Regulators Limit Utility Power Contracts: Door Open for Community Choice, Green Power (January 22, 2004)

Local Power Calls CPUC "Gatekeeper" Between Utility Procurement and Community Choice (January 9, 2004)

RAGE Coalition, Cities Oppose Utility Contract Framework (Press Release Jan 5, 2004)

CPUC Delays Decision to Put Ratepayers on Hook for Power Contracts: January 8 Vote on Multi-Year Electric Utility Procurement Dwarfs Recent $8 Billion Bailout of PG&E (January 2, 2004)

Carole Migden Op Ed Against New Utility Contracts (December 31, 2003)

December 18 is "Double Dip Day" At California Public Utilities Commission with Proposals to Bail Out PG&E and Put the State's Ratepayers on the Hook Again for Utility Contracts & Power Plants (December, 2003)

Local Power Joined by Greenpeace USA, Public Citizen, and Local Groups in RAGE Coalition Opposing CPUC Plan to Put Ratepayers on the Hook for $ Multi-Billion Utility Power Contracts and New Gas-Fueled Power Plants (December, 2003)

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

Ohio Regulators Report to Legislature Credits Community Choice Municipal Aggregation With Making Ohio's Electricity Market Among the Best In the U.S.(May, 2003)

Local Power Comments to California Public Utilities Commission Says Give Community Choice Aggregators Full Access to Energy Efficiency Funds, Prevent Suppliers From Competing With their Customers (May, 2003)

New "Re-Regulation" Bill in California Senate Threatens Re-Monopolization, May Block Solar, Community Choice (April 2003)

New Solar Networking bill, Senate 697 by Senator Nell Soto Would Exempt Large Scale Solar, Community Choice-based Distributed Green Power From Paying Transmission Fees (April 2003)

Paul Fenn Comments to CPUC on Monopolies' Long Term Power Contract Proposals to Block Customers (Feb 2003)

In California, Cities Seek Alternative Power Providers, Fear Monopolies' Plans to Block Them (Jan 2003)

Natural Gas Power Plants: The Next Bailout Scandal? (Oct 2002)

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

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)

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)

View A Petition Calling for Fair Exit Fees for Communities That Buy Power and Build Solar by clicking here. Print Sign and Fax to 925 377 0746 (PDF April, 2002)

San Francisco Announces Plan to Implement Community Choice in 2002 (March, 2002)

Fact Sheet (PDF) on 50 Megawatt San Francisco Solar Power Facility (March, 2002)

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

Local Power Urges San Francisco Board of Supervisors to Aggregate Solar Contract for Government, Private Sector in a Single 60 Megawatt Solicitation (January 17, 2002)

San Francisco Voters Approve Local Power's Proposition H: Green Light for Proposed 50MW Solar Power Facility (November 8, 2001)

Guest Article: "Public Power: the Path to Energy Efficiency," by Barbara George, Executive Director of Women's Energy Matters (November, 2001)

California Governor Vetoes Local Power's Community Choice Bill After Legislature Passes It Unanimously (October 14, 2001)

Guest Article: "Guide to a Solar San Francisco," by Dan Berman, PhD. (October, 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?

Summary of Local Power Solar, Wind Projects in San Francisco Bay Area (July 11, 2001)

Summary of Local Power Solar, Wind Projects in San Francisco Bay Area

California Community Choice Bill Faces Hostile Amendments in Senate Committee; FACT SHEET TO CONTACT SENATORS

World's Largest Solar Plant Proposed by San Francisco Board President

Let Us Build Urban Solar: A Policy Proposal to the California Energy Commission

Local Power's Urban Agenda

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 AB48x by Assemblywoman Carole Migden (D-San Francisco)

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

Assemblywoman Carole Migden (D-San Francisco) sponsors California Community Choice bill (AB48x): new Distribution Wheeling Amendment is key to states's emergency conservation goals (February 28, 2001).

View California Community Choice bill AB48x.
View Distribution Wheeling Amendment.

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

Local Power Perspective on California Rateshock: Political Bedlam and the Call for Community Choice

Community Choice Coalition Testifies: Political Leaders from San Francisco, Oakland, Marin County, Los Angeles Oppose "Re-Monopolization" and Call For Community Choice Law (August, 2000).

Local Power Issues Post Testimony Analysis of Tripling of Rates in San Diego.

Why California Needs Community Choice (Sep 1, 2000).

Link to Local Power Position on San Diego Rate Shock.

Link to Coalition Statement for Community Choice and against "Re-monopolization," signed by San Francisco Board President Tom Ammiano, Oakland Council President Ignacio de la Fuente, Marin County Supervisor Hal Brown, and Fairfax Mayor Frank Egger in Northern California, and Albert Vera, Executive Director of the Southern California Cities Joint Powers Consortium in Los Angeles.

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Massachusetts-Ohio Delegation files Landmark Community Choice Bill in Congress as Restricted California Cities Become State's Biggest Green Consumers: San Francisco Calls for Community Choice Amendment

Press Release: Cape Light Compact Seeks to Remove Parties Blocking Power Contract

Ohio Gets Community Choice: Bipartisan Support a Shot in the Arm for National RAGE Campaign

Deregulation in California, One Year Later: Without Community Choice, No Consumer Choice

Community Choice Beats the "Standard Offer" in Massachusetts: Four Competing Bidders Offer First Electric Choice to Communities

Long Beach Public Power Revival a Historic Opportunity for Greens, Consumers, Labor, Community, if They Only Think Big: Could Start Wave of Municipalizations Under California's Anti-Community Choice Law

California City Votes to Power Municipal Facilities With Green Electricity: State Law Restricts Participation by Residents, Businesses

After Approving Community Choice Provisions in House and Senate Versions, New Jersey Legislature's "Reconciliation Bill" Quietly Removes Them

• "Weak Aggregation" Efforts Failing in California and Pennsylvania as City Calls for Community Choice Amendment

• 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

• June, 1998 Guest Opinion: "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.

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

• Massachusetts Legislature Passes Nation's First Pro- "Community Choice" Deregulation Bill on 11.19.1997

• Guest Opinion: "California's Stranded Consumers": San Francisco-based T.U.R.N.'s Executive Director, Nettie Hoge, Says the Golden State's Stranded Cost Scheme Will Bring a Rate Revolt When Consumers Get their Bills

• Environmental Action Report Says "Automatic Aggregation" is Essential for Consumers & Environment Under Deregulated Electric Industry; California's New Dereg Law Discriminates Against Local Governments While Favoring Utilities, Private Aggregators

• Cape Cod Towns Vote to Solicit Electricity Service Bids Using Franchise Powers: New Bedford Towns Not Far Behind

• Guest Opinion: "Green Pricing Won't Work," by Energy Economist Gene Coyle

• Toledo, Ohio Studies Municipalization, Aggregation Options

• New England Electric System Subsidiary Seeks Rate Increase in Rhode Island

• Greening of Communities Offers Hope for Renewables and Energy Efficiency

• Massachusetts Dereg Proposal Called "Back Room Deal," Rate Reduction "Misleading"

• 5 New York Towns Choose Municipalization in 6 Referenda as Studies Predict Big Savings

• San Francisco Municipalization Study Used Pacific Gas & Electric's Numbers

• Standard & Poors Downgrades California Municipal Utilities in Wake of Deregulation Law

• California Deregulation Champion Says His Bill Was Not For Consumers

• California Dereg Bill Earmarked Half a Billion Dollars for Pacific Gas and Electric

• Republican Whip's Dereg Bill Would Strip Local Communities of Powers

• National Report Predicts Major Dereg Impact on Local Revenues

• SEC Accused of Dropping Public Utilities Holding Company Act of 1935 as Electric Merger Mania Reaches Record High (October, 1996)

• Albuquerque Mayor May Seek Bidders for City-Wide Electric Service

• California Legislature Passes Pro-Utility Deregulation Bill (September 1996)

• Electric "Merger Mania" Threatens Consumers in Coming Deregulation (August, 1996)

• Japanese Town Rejects Nuclear Plant (August, 1996)

• California Deregulation Chairman hires Southern California Edison Lobbyist as Chief of Staff (August, 1996)

• FERC approves Cleveland Power Agency Wheeling Order (August 1996)

• FERC Refuses Palm Springs' Muni-Lite Wheeling Request (July, 1996)

• Las Cruces, New Mexico Moves forward with Municipalization (July, 1996)

• Glens Falls, New York To Vote On Path Breaking Plan To Create Municipal Utility (June 21, 1996)

• Palm Springs Announces Two Finalists Muni-Lite RFP (June 14, 1996)

• Massachusetts Department of Public Utilities Gives Green Light to Development of Community Franchise Pilot Project (June 12, 1996)

• Oakland City Council Passes 500% Tax Increase on Pacific Gas and Electric (June 12, 1996)

• San Francisco Board of Supervisors Move to Increase Pacific Gas and Electric's Franchise Fees (May 29, 1996)

• Palm Springs Applies to FERC for a Wheeling Order Against Southern California Edison (April 12, 1996)

• Massachusetts Cities and Towns Revenues Threatened by Deregulation, Study Says (March 4, 1996)

• Kern County, California Considers Forming Municipal Utility District (Feb 15, 1996)

• Darlington, South Carolina to Form City Owned Power Company (Feb 15, 1996)

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