Commentary
Orange County Power Authority (OCPA) arrived on the scene promising to out-green and underprice Southern California Edison (Edison) with a new way of serving Orange County’s electricity consumers. The agency immediately engaged in what many have called personnel miscues, financial shell games, and energy green-washing.
OCPA now faces audits from the City of Irvine, County of Orange, and California State Auditor.
The agency’s troubles continue to unfold, failing to supply what is known as “resource adequacy” to our electric grid. This special type of supportive energy is required of all energy sellers to maintain the electric grid’s reliability when intermittent renewable resources like wind and solar fail to perform. Resource adequacy also combats blackouts….