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Government

May 30, 2012

State caught in middle of electric car station dispute

Ecotality has sued California to block a settlement it reached with NRG.

See Correction Below.

By Fiona Smith

Daily Journal Staff Writer

San Francisco electric vehicle-charging company Ecotality Inc. has sued the state to block a settlement regulators reached with New Jersey-based NRG Energy Inc., claiming it hands NRG a monopoly of the nascent electric vehicle-charging market.

In March, the state Public Utilities Commission and Gov. Jerry Brown hailed a deal reached with N...

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