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Community Choice is Transforming the CA Energy Industry

Published on 05/05/2017

Community Choice is Transforming the California Energy Industry

UCLA Newsroom | May 05, 2017
By George Foulsham

After decades of dominance by electricity monopolies, California is experiencing the emergence of community choice aggregators, a new type of utility that provides cities and counties the opportunity to choose what kinds of energy to purchase for their needs.

Community choice aggregation allows cities and counties in California (and other states that have enacted it) to group individual customers’ purchasing power within a defined jurisdiction to buy energy. In California, community choice aggregators are legally defined by state law as electric service providers.

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