California's two new community choice aggregators say they have big plans for renewable energy, though solar will contribute only a small percentage for now. In 2002, in response to the failure of deregulation of the electricity market, the state legislature passed AB 117. Many Californians remember it as a time of rolling blackouts, followed by Continue reading →
deregulation
Many forget the setting that led Pennsylvania and other states to restructure the retail electric industry in the early 1990s, a move that is now being questioned as electricity bills are expected to increase more than 30 percent with only modest competition for residential customers. “The idea of deregulation is attractive – more competition, increased Continue reading →
The computer in my toaster might be more powerful than the one that guided Apollo 11. But half a century after Robert Noyce launched the cyber age by inventing the silicon-based integrated circuit, computers are curiously scarce in one huge and critical part of daily life. When power goes out in your neighborhood, Baltimore Gas Continue reading →
