California customer choice advocates, IOUs face off on departing load charge
The customer choice movement in California is about to take a giant step, but it has two starkly different choices regarding which direction to go.
The movement is driven by the promises of more locally developed renewables and lower rates than investor-owned utilities (IOUs) can deliver. But California’s Customer Choice Aggregations (CCAs) can only deliver on those promises if they resolve the question of who will pay for the generation procured by IOUs to serve customers now departing to CCAs.
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