CCA money · City
Huntington Beach
Member of Orange County Power Authority since 2022-04-01 — source.
All Huntington Beach 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 Huntington Beach staff (request for council action, Feb 1, 2021, attached 2022): — document
- 2023-01-17 Huntington Beach staff (Feb 1, 2022 report, re-attached Jan 2023): — document
- 2023-01-17 Huntington Beach staff (slide on default selection for municipal accounts): OCPA Basic Choice -2% standard SCE rate — document
Studying, joining or starting a CCA
| Date | CCA | Kind | Figure | What it is | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022-02-01 | Orange County Power Authority | Joining | no fiscal impact | Feb 1, 2021 HB staff report (attached 2022): joining OCPA costs HB nothing; Irvine alone funds start-up (estimated $2.5M) and up to $5M collateral. | passage · city original |
The city's own electricity
| Date | CCA | Figure | What it is | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-09-17 | Orange County Power Authority | approximately $200,000 annually city pays more | Kalmick: returning to SCE raised the City's energy costs 2–3 percent, about $200,000 a year (councilmember's estimate). | passage · city original |
| 2024-04-16 | Orange County Power Authority | three percent (3%) city pays more | Councilmember Kalmick: HB's electric costs will rise 3% once OCPA no longer supplies the City. | passage · city original |
| 2023-01-17 | Orange County Power Authority | $234,830 city saves · estimate / proposal | Estimated savings for the City's 462 municipal accounts if switched from OCPA 100% Renewable Choice to Basic Choice; period not stated. product: Basic Choice · compared with 100% Renewable Choice plan | passage · city original |
| 2023-01-17 | Orange County Power Authority | Approx. S212k city pays more | Feb 2022 staff estimate: 100% Renewable Choice for city accounts would cost HB about $212k a year more than Basic ('S' is OCR for '$'). | passage · city original |
| 2023-01-17 | Orange County Power Authority | Approx. $ 141k city pays more | Feb 2022 staff estimate (re-attached 2023): putting city accounts on Smart Choice would cost HB about $141k a year more than Basic Choice. | passage · city original |
Leaving or a failed CCA
| Date | CCA | Figure | What it is | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-02-17 | Orange County Power Authority | $7,467,753 | Those costs were offset by $7,467,753 OCPA saved from its October 2023 shift to cheaper resources, leaving HB no remaining liability. | passage · city original |
| 2026-02-17 | Orange County Power Authority | $7,032,108 | Coronado subcommittee's answer on exit costs: HB's withdrawal left OCPA $7,032,108 of stranded resource-adequacy costs. | passage · city original |
| 2024-09-17 | Orange County Power Authority | just under $89,000 city pays | Councilmember Kalmick: just under $89,000 was spent getting out of OCPA (an oral figure at the meeting, not a staff report). | passage · city original |
| 2024-09-17 | Orange County Power Authority | $0.00 | Close-out report: HB's withdrawal took effect July 1, 2024; OCPA confirmed zero cost liability attributed to the City. | passage · city original |