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Marin County Joins The Public Power Play

Posted on April 16, 2008

The trend towards public power must remind PG&E of that old carnival game Whack a Mole where kids whack moles with a mallet as they pop up randomly and with increasing speed. The latest effort to pop up is in Marin County where locals are launcing a communitiy choice aggregation plan called Marin Clean Energy. According to the San Francisco Chronicle: Under Marin's plan, five years in the making, a joint power authority composed of representatives of all 11 Marin County towns would oversee the program. Officials expect to submit the plan to the California Public Utilities Commission for...

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