Excellent prognosication! I'm intensely suspicious, due in large part to a certain "consultant" to the CPUC namely Tim Duane, a Berkeley Urban Planning professor who grew up in Grass Valley that's fanatically anti ANY development and anti ANY private sector economic progress!
He is a burgeoning socialist/commonist, and he has adherents in the previous administration, namely Doug Wheeler Secty of Resources and even more so in the Davis Administration who like his charismatic dreams of Ecotopia. He needs to be watched like a hawk. (or a spotted owl)
Well, we all know that if you want modern society to come to a grinding halt you pull the electric power plug. Environmentalist just north of S.F. lead the anti-growth movement by using lack of new water as a method of precluding growth for years. So, it is not a real stretch to think that some environmentalists would want to use lack of electricity as a way of stopping growth.
I wonder how Davis is doing in the election polls among the environmentalist voters?