The Orange County Board of Supervisors Dec. 20 voted 3–2—with Board Vice Chairman Don Wagner and Supervisor Andrew Do dissenting—to withdraw the county’s unincorporated areas from the Orange County Power Authority (OCPA), a local energy provider embroiled in controversy and accused of lacking transparency.
The agency also serves residents and businesses in the cities of Huntington Beach, Buena Park, Irvine, and Fullerton.
The decision came after an audit of the OCPA revealed Dec. 9 that twice as many people opted out of its services—at 16.5 percent—compared to its own projections. The green energy provider lost nearly three times more customers than 19 other community-choice energy providers in California, according to the audit….