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<h1><font class="Apple-style-span"
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class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal;">Today's
Chronicle
has a poll asking whether San Francisco and Marin should move
forward with Community Choice/CleanPowerSF. (In the poll, they call it
"public power".) Of course choose the third option: "Yes, and San
Francisco should too". <br>
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Now
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, or
below in the article's left sidebar.<br>
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<font class="Apple-style-span"
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class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal;">Make
your
voice heard! Please </span><span class="Apple-style-span"
style="font-size: 16px;"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#006600">Vote
now
and forward</font></span><span class="Apple-style-span"
style="font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal;"> on to others that want
a clean energy future and local green jobs! In addition to any
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<div><font class="Apple-style-span"
face="Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif" size="4"><span
class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">PS: PG&E will
probably ask their employees to vote from any computers they have so
its really important that we show strong support for Community
Choice/CleanPowerSF and Public Power today! </span></font></div>
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<div><font class="Apple-style-span"
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class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">PPS: The article has
great news about Marin Clean Energy moving forward. </span></font></div>
<h1>Marin County to provide power, oust PG&E</h1>
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<p><a href="mailto:dbaker@sfchronicle.com" target="_blank">David R.
Baker, Chronicle Staff Writer</a></p>
<p><span class="Apple-style-span"
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County
is poised to jump into the public power business, despite fierce
opposition from Pacific Gas and Electric Co.</span></p>
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<p>In a series of votes tonight, officials with the Marin Energy
Authority are expected to take some of the last key steps necessary to
start providing electricity to many of the county's residents and
businesses, taking over a role now filled by PG&E. The organization
is a joint-powers authority formed by the county and all of its cities
except Corte Madera, Larkspur, Novato and Ross.</p>
<p>The authority's board is scheduled to vote tonight on a proposed
contract with Shell Energy North America to line up wholesale
electricity supplies from power plants, wind farms and solar
facilities. The board also is scheduled to set the authority's
electricity rates, matching PG&E's rates for most customers.</p>
<p>"This is the final seal on a lot of the work we've been doing," said
Dawn Weisz, the authority's interim director. "We've been working on
this for seven years."</p>
<p>If all goes as planned, the Marin Energy Authority would start
supplying electricity to some customers in May.</p>
<p>It would be state's first example of a new kind of public power,
known as community choice aggregation. Created by a state law in 2002,
community choice allows towns, cities or counties to buy electricity
for their residents, while traditional utility companies such as
PG&E continue to own and operate the electrical grid. San Francisco
is developing its community choice aggregation system.</p>
<p>"I'm just totally thrilled that it's finally happening," said Paul
Fenn, who drafted the law and now helps communities adopt community
choice aggregation. "This is a very big thing."</p>
<p>But Marin's plan still faces hurdles placed in its path by PG&E.</p>
<p>The utility, based in San Francisco, argues that Marin residents
will end up paying more for power in the long run if the authority
moves forward. PG&E also has complained that, under California's
laws, the authority should have performed an environmental impact
report before setting up its system.</p>
<p>PG&E has funded an initiative on the June ballot that would make
it far harder for anyone to adopt community choice aggregation in the
future. Although the initiative would come too late to stop Marin, it
could complicate any efforts by the Marin Energy Authority to expand.</p>
<p>Finally, PG&E has threatened not to deliver electricity to the
authority over the utility's power lines.</p>
<p>"We are obligated to not deliver power if we believe that (the
authority) is not complying with (community choice aggregation) tariffs
and the law," said PG&E spokeswoman Katie Romans.</p>
<p>But the community choice aggregation law explicitly requires
utilities to cooperate with communities that adopt the system, said
Marin County Supervisor Charles McGlashan, who also serves as the
energy authority's chairman. PG&E's threat, he said, "is patently
illegal, but they don't seem to care."</p>
<p>E-mail David R. Baker at <a href="mailto:dbaker@sfchronicle.com"
target="_blank">dbaker@sfchronicle.com</a>.</p>
<p>This article appeared on page <strong>D - 1</strong> of the
San Francisco Chronicle</p>
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