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Fullerton

Member of Orange County Power Authority since 2022-04 — source.

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All Fullerton City Council meetings.

Read from the councils' own documents — check the source. Each figure was copied from a staff report, budget, financial statement or set of minutes, by a person or by a language model whose quote had to be found word for word in the document. Every figure links to the passage it came from; the city's original file is the official record. Updated 2026-10-20.

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Studies the council was shown

2022-02-01 Fullerton staff (default-tier report): SCE rate plus a penny per kWh or 3.7% above SCE | plus 1.5 cents per kWh or 5.6% — Basic Choice Tier for the City's municipal energy accounts document
2023-05-16 ACES (proposal to benchmark Fullerton's OCPA withdrawal costs; not hired): — directed staff to ask OCPA for information regarding withdrawal document

Studying, joining or starting a CCA

Date	CCA	Kind	Figure	What it is	Source
2023-05-16	Orange County Power Authority	Study / start-up	$12,675	ACES offers to benchmark Fullerton's OCPA withdrawal costs for $12,675; the council instead asks OCPA for information and hires no one.	passage · city original
2023-04-04	Orange County Power Authority	Study / start-up	$50,000 to $100,000 city pays	Staff: a consultant analysis of what leaving OCPA would cost Fullerton would itself cost an estimated $50,000 to $100,000.	passage · city original
2022-07-05	Orange County Power Authority	Joining	no fiscal impact	OCPA transparency item noting OCPA's $1.96 million CPUC fine; staff report fiscal impact none.	passage · city original

The city's own electricity

Date	CCA	Figure	What it is	Source
2023-04-04	Orange County Power Authority	$38,000 a year · city saves · estimate / proposal	Fullerton's municipal accounts on OCPA's Basic Choice 38% product are estimated to save about $38,000 in 2023 versus comparable SCE generation rates. product: Basic Choice 38% · compared with SCE generation rates	passage · city original

Grants and projects paid by the CCA

Date	CCA	Figure	What it is	Source
2025-05-20	Orange County Power Authority	Orange County Power Authority: $5,000 city receives	OCPA sponsors Fullerton's 2025 State of the City event with $5,000.	passage · city original

Leaving or a failed CCA

Date	CCA	Figure	What it is	Source
2023-05-16	Orange County Power Authority	$12,675 city pays · estimate / proposal	Fullerton would pay consultant ACES $12,675, half at contract execution and half on completion, for an assessment of withdrawal costs from Orange County Power Authority.	passage · city original
2023-04-04	Orange County Power Authority	$100,000 city pays · estimate / proposal	Fullerton estimates hiring a consultant to analyze the cost of withdrawing from OCPA would cost $50,000 to $100,000, paid by the city one time.	passage · city original
2023-04-04	Orange County Power Authority	$50,000 city pays · estimate / proposal	Fullerton estimates hiring a consultant to analyze its withdrawal liability from OCPA would cost $50,000 to $100,000, a one-time cost paid by the city.	passage · city original