Marin

PG&E MAY PROPOSE GREEN ELECTRONS PILOT PROGRAM TO MARIN

Brad Breithaupt, Independent Journal Staff Writer, reported on September 12, 2008 that PG&E will be pitching a plan to Marin governments to provided 100% "green" electrons to Marin County- as a Pilot Program. We'll be following this story very closely, particularly because it could put years of work on Marin Clean Energy, so full of promise for locally generated renewable power, in jeopardy.

Tam Hunt writes in Renewable Energy World (August 20 2008) that Community Choice Aggregation for Local Electrical Power is a very promising, advanced, government policy to address the climate crisis in a very significant way. 

Bonnie Allen, writing in the August issue of North Bay Biz, has laid out the nuts and bolts, as well as the future economic vision for Marin Clean Energy. This article is one of the best journalistic efforts to date on Marin's pioneering renewable energy initiative. After you read the quote, below, enjoy the full story here.

Peter Seidman, Environment Reporter at the Pacific Sun, wrote this very balanced article on Marin Clean Energy in May of 2008. He points out that our current Investor Owned Utility (IOU), PG&E, has begun an "adversarial" campaign to prevent MCE's establishment by vote of Marin's City Councils and County Board of Supervisors. Below are two salient quotes from the article. Click here to read the whole story.

Pulitzer Prize winning writer, and latté-sipping Marin resident Katherine Ellison, published this lively story about Marin Clean Energy in the San Francisco Chronicle in May of 2008. She poignantly looks at PG&E's marketing campaign to sell themselves as the greenest utility around. But,