Orange County Power Authority (OCPA) is imploding following a Grand Jury’s scathing report about the agency’s policy and personnel shortcomings. Buena Park is reportedly considering ditching the energy upstart, and other OCPA member cities are calling for an audit, all while the agency is whispering that its prices are now headed up.
While everyone is playing politics to oust OCPA’s inexperienced chief executive—new arrival Brian Probolsky—no one is looking at the agency’s inherent business flaws that have nothing to do with Probolsky’s one-year tenure, and which could put OCPA and its consultants in the crosshairs of ratepayer litigation….