Commentary
Community Choice Energy agencies are failing to disclose flaws about the lynchpin of their entire business model: batteries.
Batteries supposedly make intermittent renewable energy—wind and solar—fully viable. However, the record of battery meltdowns and fires is ignored in favor of profits and false claims about “clean” energy.
The public deserves far better transparency from these local-government Community Choice energy agencies, which claim to provide greener energy at lower prices than that of incumbent investor-owned utilities, all while supposedly operating transparently.
(Nearly all Californians will be switched into a Community Choice Energy agency—comprised of local municipal jurisdictions in their area—unless they opt out to continue receiving full service from the incumbent power company. Regardless, the incumbent not only delivers each Community Choice agencies’ power, but also bills participating ratepayers on behalf of these community upstarts) [1].
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