Actually they want to sue the power companies in OTHER states, for two purposes.
It would subsidize electric power for CALIFORNIA and TAX other states/residents, AND run the money through the CA state political patronage system.
It would also expand California's authority to that of a nation state, and this is the real goal.
You give that crwd in Sacramento entirely too much credit.
Their average IQ is in the low 50s.
I've lived here all my life and have seen, firsthand, the transformation into one big mess of pervert drooling idiots.