CalCCA
Floor Alert:
Stop
the CPUC power grab and
urge your member to vote
no on AB 56
The
Assembly is poised to take
a vote as soon as this
Friday, May 24, on a
bill opposed by CalCCA
that would expand the
authority of the
California Public
Utilities Commission over
local community choice
energy providers, add
costs to ratepayers, and
make it harder for
communities to achieve
their climate goals.
CalCCA
urges you to call or
email your
Assemblymember and ask
them to vote no on AB
56 (E. Garcia).
(You can find your
legislator's contact
information here.)
We have been working with
the author's office for
months on this proposal,
which seeks to create a
new "central buyer" to
manage the state's
evolving energy market.
This new entity would be
responsible for handling
resource adequacy,
renewable energy, and
efficiency programs across
the state - even in
communities that have
formed community choice
aggregation programs to
procure their own energy.
The latest
amendments of this bill,
which went into print
earlier this week, do
not address our
concerns - and would make
it more
costly to provide
electricity reliably.
In its current form, this
bill is nothing more than
a power grab by the CPUC.
The new authority granted
to the Commission would
significantly scale back
local control - and create
significant problems for
your local energy
provider.
CalCCA members have
testified before the
Legislature for months
about their support for a
central buyer model that
would create a true "backstop" to address
reliability issues across
the grid. We are prepared
to work with the author
and other stakeholders to
address this clearly
identified need and
problem.
However, as currently
drafted, AB 56 grants far
too much authority to the
CPUC to procure any energy
resources as they see
fit.
Call or email your legislator today, and urge them
to vote no on AB 56!
About CalCCA
Launched in 2016, the
California Community
Choice Association
(CalCCA) represents
California's community
choice electricity
providers before the state
Legislature and at
regulatory agencies,
advocating for a level
playing field and opposing
policies that unfairly
discriminate against CCAs
and their customers. There
are currently 19
operational CCA programs
in California serving
approximately 10 million
customers.
For more information about
CalCCA, visit??www.cal-cca.org.
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