Supervisors decide to pursue community choice energy program for entire Santa Barbara County, Cities

The Santa Barbara County Board of Supervisors on Tuesday voted to pursue a community choice energy program for unincorporated areas and interested cities, after a feasibility study yielded opposite conclusions to last year’s naysaying report.

Community choice energy programs, or CCEs, allow counties and cities to choose the source of electricity, such as renewables including wind and solar, and set rates. The supervisors voted 3-2 to pursue forming a joint powers authority to create a new CCE program with interested cities.

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