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Energy Law

Nov. 17, 2011

Municipalities seek alternative to public utilities

After nearly a decade, a law allowing municipal governments to compete with public utilities and develop their own power purchase agreements to provide electricity to residents is experiencing renewed interest.


By Paul Jones


Daily Journal Staff Writer


After nearly a decade, a law allowing municipal governments to compete with public utilities and develop their own power purchase agreements to provide electricity to residents is experiencing renewed interest.


If more counties exploit that option, it could alter the clean power generation landscape in California, creating a middle market apart from the present dichotomy of rate-hiking utility scale re...

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