The Orange County Board of Supervisors voted June 7 to direct county officials to investigate any legal or financial risks with the county’s involvement with the Orange County Power Authority amid several controversies within the agency.
The Orange County Power Authority was set up by the county in late 2020 as a local sustainable energy alternative to Southern California Edison; on April 1, it launched its commercial electricity service.
In the two months since its launch, however, the agency has faced a series of controversies—including higher prices for customers than originally advertised, calls by the agency’s board members for CEO Brian Probolsky to resign, and a whistleblower legal complaint filed by Probolsky claiming board members are scheming to remove him as CEO, among other things….