Why Is Community Choice Energy So Promising?

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. 

Renewable energy produces local self-sufficiency

Communities and local governments are increasingly looking for ways they can influence high utility prices, obtain more renewable energy and become more self-sufficient. Community Choice Aggregation is perhaps the most promising option for achieving these goals.

Community Choice Aggregation (CCA) allows local governments to buy or build power facilities on behalf of their residents. California's CCA law (AB 117) is fairly new, passed in 2002. Similar laws exist in a few other states such as Ohio, Massachusetts and New Jersey. CCA has been very successful in Ohio and Massachusetts but is still getting off the ground in New Jersey and California. 

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