Commentary
Communities think that renewable energy providers like Orange County Power Authority (OCPA) are altruistic and all about increasing everyone’s renewable energy use. What is missed is that many of these energy procurement agencies are more about separating you from the green in your wallet than greening the environment.
This 3-part article, which includes action items you can take at the end of Part III, discusses how consumers are misled by community choice programs—like OCPA—and their organizers and consultants, paying for renewable energy that is never delivered to their homes and businesses.
OCPA forces its way into the market and into your finances by automatically switching unaware consumers into its program amid dramatic claims of providing enormous amounts of renewable energy, inexplicably accomplishing what California’s electric system and best engineers have never before achieved….