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As
California goes, so goes the nation, or so they say. If that rings
true, the nation is set for a reversal of some of its strictest
renewable energy plans, after the Huntington Beach City Council voted to dump its plan for 100% renewable energy.
Huntington Beach, California, is changing the plan it had in place with
the Orange County Power Authority (OCPA)—a nonprofit offering clean
energy. But its recent history in a rather unfavorable media limelight
has given the city council pause.
And Huntington Beach wasn’t the first municipality to pull out—Orange
County bailed on the green power authority, citing transparency
concerns and a series of ugly audits, and allegations that the authority
failed to inform the public that their electricity bills were
increasing.
Orange
County was set to begin receiving green power from the authority by the
end of this year. The cost of having the county pull out is estimated
to be around $65 million.
For
Huntington Beach, there were three plans before it when considering a
change in plan: to keep the 100% renewable energy plan as is, to go with
a “Smart Choice” plan offering 69% renewable energy, or the “Basic
Choice” plan that offered 38% renewable energy. They opted for the Basic
Choice plan in a vote of 4-3....
.... Huntington Beach’s change of plans follows the launch of the
Department of Energy’s $50 million project to help communities
transition to clean energy systems—the C2C program.
“With C2C...” said U.S. Secretary of Energy Jennifer M. Granholm in a statement earlier this week.
Link here.
Link here.
Al Gore seems to have lost it in Davos this week. He must be following the same stories.
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