Don't let PG&E kill Community Choice clean energy!

[scamperwillow]

IMPORTANT! PG&E tried this in a ballot measure which we defeated. NOW they have gone to the legislature! It’s crunch time for local clean energy in the California State Senate Energy Committee. Assembly Bill (AB) 2145 will be heard in that committee on Monday, June 23. Please call (BETTER) and/or email committee Chair Alex Padilla this week and urge him to lead his committee in rejecting AB 2145.

Here's a script you can use: "Hello - this is a message for Senator Padilla. Please vote NO on AB 2145 in the Senate Energy Committee. AB 2145 will limit consumer choice, reduce competition, thwart California’s environmental goals, infringe on local government decision-making power, diminish local communities’ ability to create local clean energy jobs, and destroy the future of Community Choice energy in California. Please vote NO!" You can put it in an email too but a call is better!

Alex Padilla email: [email protected]
On Twitter: @SenAlexPadilla

Or his assistant: [email protected]
Phone: 916-651-4020

AB 2145 threatens all Community Choice local clean energy programs in California. The large corporate utilities (PG&E, SCE, and SDG&E) are once again attempting to crush competition.

If enacted, AB 2145 will:

• Limit consumer choice
• Reduce competition
• Thwart California’s environmental goals
• Infringe on local government decision-making power
• Diminish local communities’ ability to create local clean energy jobs
• Destroy the future of Community Choice energy in California.

AB 2145 will change the rules to make it impossible to establish viable Community Choice energy programs, thus cementing the utility monopolies. Community Choice energy is one of the most powerful solutions available to local governments to significantly reduce greenhouse gas emissions. AB 2145 represents a backward step for California’s leadership. Please don’t let utilities stamp it out.

Amazingly this sailed through the Assembly because of such lobbying from the big bucks utilities. It is really important to kill it NOW in the energy Committee before it gets to the Senate floor! Make that call!

[scamperwillow]

Thanks for the gratitudes folks, but what I want to know is did EACH of you make that call? Monday is not too late - first thing in the morning would be great!

IMPORTANT! PG&E tried this in a ballot measure which we defeated. NOW they have gone to the legislature! It’s crunch time for local clean energy in the California State Senate Energy Committee. Assembly Bill (AB) 2145 will be heard in that committee on Monday, June 23. Please call (BETTER) and/or email committee Chair Alex Padilla this week and urge him to lead his committee in rejecting AB 2145.

Here's a script you can use: "Hello - this is a message for Senator Padilla. Please vote NO on AB 2145 in the Senate Energy Committee. AB 2145 will limit consumer choice, reduce competition, thwart California’s environmental goals, infringe on local government decision-making power, diminish local communities’ ability to create local clean energy jobs, and destroy the future of Community Choice energy in California. Please vote NO!" You can put it in an email too but a call is better!

Alex Padilla email: [email protected]
On Twitter: @SenAlexPadilla

Or his assistant: [email protected]
Phone: 916-651-4020

AB 2145 threatens all Community Choice local clean energy programs in California. The large corporate utilities (PG&E, SCE, and SDG&E) are once again attempting to crush competition.

If enacted, AB 2145 will:

• Limit consumer choice
• Reduce competition
• Thwart California’s environmental goals
• Infringe on local government decision-making power
• Diminish local communities’ ability to create local clean energy jobs
• Destroy the future of Community Choice energy in California.

AB 2145 will change the rules to make it impossible to establish viable Community Choice energy programs, thus cementing the utility monopolies. Community Choice energy is one of the most powerful solutions available to local governments to significantly reduce greenhouse gas emissions. AB 2145 represents a backward step for California’s leadership. Please don’t let utilities stamp it out.

Amazingly this sailed through the Assembly because of such lobbying from the big bucks utilities. It is really important to kill it NOW in the energy Committee before it gets to the Senate floor! Make that call!

[scamperwillow]

TODAY is the day the Energy Committee meets! Calls today to Senator Padilla's office would be VERY timely. Please do it!

Thanks for the gratitudes folks, but what I want to know is did EACH of you make that call? Monday is not too late - first thing in the morning would be great!

[Lilith Rogers]

Thanks for the heads up, Marty. I called and gave him the message just now. Hope it helps.

Lilith

IMPORTANT! PG&E tried this in a ballot measure which we defeated. NOW they have gone to the legislature! It’s crunch time for local clean energy in the California State Senate Energy Committee. Assembly Bill (AB) 2145 will be heard in that committee on Monday, June 23. Please call (BETTER) and/or email committee Chair Alex Padilla this week and urge him to lead his committee in rejecting AB 2145.

Here's a script you can use: "Hello - this is a message for Senator Padilla. Please vote NO on AB 2145 in the Senate Energy Committee. AB 2145 will limit consumer choice, reduce competition, thwart California’s environmental goals, infringe on local government decision-making power, diminish local communities’ ability to create local clean energy jobs, and destroy the future of Community Choice energy in California. Please vote NO!" You can put it in an email too but a call is better!

Alex Padilla email: [email protected]
On Twitter: @SenAlexPadilla

Or his assistant: [email protected]
Phone: 916-651-4020

AB 2145 threatens all Community Choice local clean energy programs in California. The large corporate utilities (PG&E, SCE, and SDG&E) are once again attempting to crush competition.

If enacted, AB 2145 will:

• Limit consumer choice
• Reduce competition
• Thwart California’s environmental goals
• Infringe on local government decision-making power
• Diminish local communities’ ability to create local clean energy jobs
• Destroy the future of Community Choice energy in California.

AB 2145 will change the rules to make it impossible to establish viable Community Choice energy programs, thus cementing the utility monopolies. Community Choice energy is one of the most powerful solutions available to local governments to significantly reduce greenhouse gas emissions. AB 2145 represents a backward step for California’s leadership. Please don’t let utilities stamp it out.

Amazingly this sailed through the Assembly because of such lobbying from the big bucks utilities. It is really important to kill it NOW in the energy Committee before it gets to the Senate floor! Make that call!

[treasure]

THANK YOU, Marty.
I was wondering what PG&E was up to. But also knew that sooner or later, one way or another, I would find out on WACCO.

Best,
Treasure

IMPORTANT! PG&E tried this in a ballot measure which we defeated. NOW they have gone to the legislature! It’s crunch time for local clean energy in the California State Senate Energy Committee. Assembly Bill (AB) 2145 will be heard in that committee on Monday, June 23. Please call (BETTER) and/or email committee Chair Alex Padilla this week and urge him to lead his committee in rejecting AB 2145...

[scamperwillow]

You can listen live to committee hearings right now! https://calchannel.granicus.com/Medi...&event_id=1078

Thanks for the heads up, Marty. I called and gave him the message just now. Hope it helps.

Lilith

[tomcat]

Please keep us up to date on this.
Many thanks!
Tom

You can listen live to committee hearings right now! https://calchannel.granicus.com/Medi...&event_id=1078

[scamperwillow]

It is very good news! The committee amended it to go back to opt-out instead of opt-in. There is a front page article in the peedee today. Not over yet though because the amended version will have to go back to Assembly AFTER it clears the Senate floor!

Please keep us up to date on this.
Many thanks!
Tom