CCAs accelerate California’s clean energy transition, providing a model for other states: report

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California’s community choice aggregators (CCAs) have sped up the state’s progress toward its clean energy goals by opting to purchase more carbon-free electricity than they’re required to, a model that could be replicated in other states that are considering allowing the development of CCAs, according to a new report from the UCLA Luskin Center for Innovation.

The report found that between 2011 and 2019, CCAs in California purchased 23.5 million MWh of renewable energy in excess of state requirements, more than twice what they were required to buy, lead author Kelly Trumbull, project manager with the Luskin Center, said during a webinar Wednesday.

But California’s transitioning energy landscape, which is growing to accommodate more providers of electricity as well as sources of power, is also creating challenges for state regulators, according to Edward Randolph, the California Public Utilities Commission’s deputy executive director for energy and climate policy. “All of these parts need to work together, in a coordinated way that’s very different than it used to be,” he said.

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