Commentary
A generation ago long-distance phone companies invented clever ways of deceiving consumers, frequently switching them into their programs without their knowledge or permission. The practice was coined “slamming,” and today a variation of it is employed by new local-government community choice energy agencies, including Orange County Power Authority (OCPA).
It’s part of the game where slamming is concealed under OCPA’s guise of “local control by community leaders,” permitted by legislation from California’s failed energy deregulation twenty years ago, Assembly Bill 117.
These government agencies compete with incumbent power companies such as Southern California Edison, claiming to deliver clean energy for low prices when the opposite is true….