CA: Why another energy crisis looms

OC Register ^ | 4/9/04 | Sherry M. Butterfield - Op/Ed

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In August 1996, the California Legislature unanimously passed Assembly Bill 1890, which provided for electric utility restructuring within the state. One of the primary goals of the bill, which was signed into law in September 1996, was to give customers a choice of electricity providers and to make available to them the expected price- reducing and service-enhancing benefits of competition.

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In truth, the energy crisis was brought on largely by the rapidly increasing demand for electric power, which could not be met from within the state because of California's two-decades-long failure to build power plants. The one lesson clearly taught by this crisis was that California legislators and regulators needed to permit the state's power companies to increase their generating and transmitting capacity.

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[ErnBatavia]

I am so glad that we live in one of the few non-grid, independently supplied areas....Imperial Irrigation District has low enough rates (comparatively speaking), that homes for sale have it advertised that "we're not on Edison, we're on IID".

[Lael]

For example, data from the 2000 Census show there are businesses in more than half of the 750 homes in Mission Viejo's gated Canyon Crest community.

Now, THAT is, to me, the most interesting thing in the Article!!!

I had a friend who lived in the Orange County, etc., etc., etc., and I asked her to find out how they support themselves, since the collapse of the Defence business at the end of the Cold War.

After all, there was no huge exodus of people akin to those associated with previous "Busts" like the 1960's Seattle.

Now, I guess the Payroll Survey doesn't capture the Mission home based Businesses!!