The Orange County Power Authority (OCPA) will stop providing power to residents and businesses in Huntington Beach after a split vote on May 16, where city councilors voted 4–3 to leave the embattled green energy agency.
Huntington Beach’s actions follow the December withdrawal from the agency also by the Orange County Board of Supervisors.
The city’s newly elected conservative majority voted in favor of exiting while councilors Dan Kalmick, Natalie Moser, and Rhonda Bolton voted to remain.
Kalmick echoed some residents’ comments, that a special meeting held at the close of the city’s regular council meeting Tuesday, to discuss the issue, didn’t provide enough time to gauge potential impacts of the withdrawal….