Posted on 06/07/2010 7:40:40 AM PDT by SmithL
Even as Californians head to the polls to decide Tuesday whether cities will need two-thirds voter approval to get into the public power business, San Francisco's Public Utilities Commission is scrambling to unveil its own green energy proposal.
Commission staffers are trying to work out a deal by Tuesday with Power Choice LLC, the consortium the PUC selected to deliver green power. Even if they succeed, one thing is becoming clear, those close to the talks tell us - customers will be paying considerably more than what they fork over now to PG&E.
The Board of Supervisors has threatened to hold up the PUC's budget for the rebuild of the Hetch Hetchy system and other projects unless the agency brass delivers a contract pronto - so that's what the commission intends to do.
To hear agency officials tell it, the outcome of PG&E-backed Proposition 16 won't have any effect on San Francisco's plan - signed contract or not - because Power Choice was officially designated as the city's prospective power provider before Tuesday's election.
As for City Attorney Dennis Herrera, he said he would "absolutely" stand by the PUC's power plan if PG&E challenges it - which the utility, if it wins Tuesday, almost certainly will.
(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...
one thing is becoming clear ... customers will be paying considerably more than what they fork over now to PG&E.That doesn't matter if their intentions are good.
Put the utility on bicycles with those little wheel generators...
Let them live like the thrid world country lifestyle they are craving. That is the only way they will WAKE UP!
The fools on the hills of San Francisco will never wake up. They view living a 5th century agrarian “lifestyle” as a feature-not a bug.
That is until they can no longer get any coffee because it is not grown locally, their “green” electric vehicles can not get electricity to charge them up and their iPods, iPads and iPhones do not work.
Can we sell San Franciso to Cuba or Mexico?
They’d be happier under than kind of leadership.
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