CCA money · Joining and leaving
What studying, joining or leaving a CCA cost city governments
Joining an existing CCA usually costs a city nothing or a study fee; the joint powers agreement keeps the CCA's debts off the city's general fund. Cities that started their own CCA, or were founding lenders, carried real money. Leaving costs whatever power the CCA had already bought for the city's customers.
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.
Case studies
Western Community Energy: what a bankrupt CCA cost its member cities
Western Community Energy, WRCOG's CCA for Eastvale, Hemet, Jurupa Valley, Norco, Perris and Wildomar, declared a fiscal emergency in May 2021, filed for Chapter 9 and returned all customers to SCE on June 14, 2021. The OC Grand Jury reported debt of $100 million against less than $50 million in assets; ICF cited about $6 million of COVID delinquency and $10 million of excess 2020 power costs. Member-city records show WCE spending only on bankruptcy counsel (Marshack Hays): adding up the itemised payments, about $25.6k for Hemet, $6.1k for Wildomar and $5.2k–$6.9k for Eastvale. The 2023 termination agreements carried no fiscal impact; a court injunction barred collecting WCE's debts from members. No member-city document compares WCE and SCE rates.
Baldwin Park's BPROUD: running and unwinding a city-owned CCA
BPROUD served about 17,500 accounts under a CalChoice services agreement. In 2021 the General Fund lent or transferred $2,637,568 to cover deficits. On Oct 6, 2021 the council voted to leave the energy business and raised the generation rate from 0.06708 to 0.08362 per kWh, retroactive to September 1, 2021. Customers were back on SCE by Mar 5, 2022. Selling the power contracts netted $2,918,000, SCE released a $147,000 letter of credit, and state CAPP paid $111,537 and later $271,797. Costs included $289,419 of the City's own professional services and $8,375 in SCE re-entry fees. Staff projected a net $274,229 to the General Fund and $3.5 million came back from the lockbox. No audited final statement was found.
Butte Choice Energy: the CCA that never launched
Butte Choice Energy, a JPA of Chico, Oroville and Butte County, never served a customer; Oroville staff cited market conditions after 2021 and the "significant amount of up front funding and incurring debt" a start-up needs. Under the JPA, Butte County funded start-up work that no party could recover if the CCA never operated; no city document states the amount. Chico and Oroville terminated the JPA in January–February 2025 with "Fiscal Impact: None" and joined Pioneer Community Energy, paying $3,750 each toward a $30,000 Impact Assessment Study (Pioneer paid $15,000). Pioneer service is set for October 2027. In 2026 Oroville hired consultants (NewGen up to $40,000, SEE up to $15,000) to test alternatives; none beat Pioneer.
Huntington Beach leaves the Orange County Power Authority
Huntington Beach, an OCPA founder, contributed no capital; only Irvine bore start-up risk. In February 2022 the council made 100% Renewable Choice the default, which staff estimated would cost city accounts "Approx. $212k" a year more than Basic. In January 2023 it moved 462 municipal accounts to Basic Choice ("$234,830 savings"), and in May 2023 voted 4–3 to withdraw without a staff report; a motion for a professional cost analysis failed 3–4. Withdrawal took effect July 1, 2024 and OCPA confirmed "zero cost liability". A councilmember put the process cost at "just under $89,000" and the higher SCE bills at about $200,000 a year. A Coronado report says HB's $7,032,108 of stranded costs were offset by $7,467,753 of savings.
Irvine: OCPA's founding lender
Irvine is the only OCPA founder with capital at risk. Its 2020 Capital Loan Agreement covered $250,000 of formation costs, a $2,500,000 pre-launch loan at an estimated 1.75% due 1/1/2027 ($2,762,500.00 in total), and $2,000,000 to $5,000,000 of cash collateral for an $8,000,000 to $20,000,000 credit facility. The Grand Jury put Irvine's investment at "some $7.5 million". Irvine voted 3–2 in December 2022 to stay; in December 2024 it moved all its customers to Basic Choice and gave notice of withdrawal, which a Laguna Beach committee report says was rescinded in September 2025. OCPA began repaying the "$7 million" in November 2025, and its FY2026/27 budget shows the loan scheduled to be fully paid off by January 2027.
Fountain Valley joins OCPA
Fountain Valley weighed OCPA in 2024 on OCPA's own numbers: a 425 kWh household on Basic Choice would pay $123.82 against SCE's $125.71. The feasibility study was by Pacific Energy Advisors, engaged by OCPA, and the October 2024 staff report found no fiscal impact to the City. The council voted 4–1 to join, with staff assuming 90% of about 18,500 accounts would take Basic Choice at a 3% discount to SCE generation. Service slipped from October 2026 to April 1, 2027; OCPA expects Fountain Valley to add about $6.0 million of revenue in FY 2026/27. No document estimates what the City's own accounts will pay or save, and a 2026 request to leave got no second.
Oakland and Ava Community Energy
Oakland has defaulted to EBCE (now Ava Community Energy) since 2018. In 2024 the default Bright Choice was priced 5% below PG&E's generation rate, with an average non-CARE residential bill of $118.22 a month. In June 2024 the council voted 8–0 to move all municipal accounts to Renewable 100 from March 2025, at an estimated $688,000 a year more, charged to the Facilities fund (60–70% General Purpose Fund). Ava also builds EV fast chargers on city lots at no cost, avoiding about $4.23 million; funds fleet assessments through a no-cost grant; and a 25-year solar-and-storage PPA was presented with "no fiscal risk". Residential and commercial Renewable 100 defaults were deferred and do not reappear in the record.
What outside records add
Audits, the bankruptcy plan and utility filings fill in what the member cities' own documents do not say. Each row links to its source.
| Case | Date | Fact | Figure | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Baldwin Park BPROUD | 2019-03-20 | Baldwin Park contracted with California Choice Energy Authority (CalChoice) to administer BPROUD, at an average cost of about $60,000 a month, because no city staff positions were created for the program. | $60,000 | source |
| Baldwin Park BPROUD | 2021-08-18 | Staff's proposed BPROUD rates would have put the average residential bill at $159.02 against $150.52 on SCE, 5.6% higher, because the SCE exit fee (PCIA) of $0.02614/kWh outweighed BPROUD's 12.4% lower generation rate. | $159 | source |
| Baldwin Park BPROUD | 2021-10-06 | Staff reported BPROUD in 'structural fiscal deficit', with the General Fund covering the shortfall by transfers since July 2021; with no rate action the accumulated deficit would reach $3,025,000 by June 30 2022. Council had already authorized up to $1,325,000 in transfers, and staff sought up to $1,700,000 more without a rate increase or $1,120,000 with one. | $3.0 million | source |
| Baldwin Park BPROUD | 2021-10-06 | The council agenda text for the same item gave a different figure: authorize up to $550,000 more from the General Fund to the BPROUD escrow account, raising total authorized transfers to $1,875,000, and raise the generation rate from $0.06708 to $0.08362/kWh. | $1.9 million | source |
| Baldwin Park BPROUD | 2021-10-06 | Cordoba Corporation's analysis for the city: in April 2021 CalChoice had outlined potential losses of up to $9.7M, much of it from having to sell BPROUD's 36 long-term contracts back into the market; Cordoba excluded about $2.4M (losses from not raising rates) and about $2.7M (tied to a CPUC ruling not due until 2025) and put the possible loss from exiting at up to $4.6M. | $4.6 million | source |
| Baldwin Park BPROUD | 2021-12-15 | General Fund transfers to the BPROUD lockbox escrow account from July to November 2021 were $212,568, $500,000, $500,000, $855,000 and $470,000, totaling $2,537,568. Staff said SCE's filed re-entry fee was virtually zero apart from forfeiture of a $140,000 letter-of-credit deposit. | $2.5 million | source |
| Baldwin Park BPROUD | 2021-12-15 | Baldwin Park staff described SCE's re-entry charges in the WCE case as able to 'range in the $10M to $12M'; this is the city's characterization, not an SCE or CPUC figure. | source | |
| Baldwin Park BPROUD | 2022-03-16 | Final summary: General Fund loans and transfers to BPROUD (July-Nov 2021) were $2,637,568; liquidating and assigning BPROUD's energy contracts netted $2,918,000 (hedges sold for $3.025M; resource adequacy obligations assumed by Lancaster at a cost of $107K). | $2.6 million | source |
| Baldwin Park BPROUD | 2022-03-16 | Exit costs listed: CalChoice services $144,697, city professional services $200,000, SCE re-entry fees $8,375, and prior-year costs of $272,542 (start-up $95,029 plus the FY2020-21 loss of $177,514). Receipts: $147,000 letter of credit returned and $111,537 in state CAPP arrearage funds. Net result: $(86,645) before outstanding receivables and CAISO settlements. | −$86,645 | source |
| Baldwin Park BPROUD | FY2020-21 | BPROUD's first fiscal year (service from Oct 2020): charges for services $4,538,547, operating expenses $4,587,792, transfers out $128,420, ending net position a deficit of $177,514. | −$177,514 | source |
| Baldwin Park BPROUD | FY2021-22 | In BPROUD's final serving year (service ended Feb 28 2022), charges for services were $8,829,489, operating expenses $8,136,032, and the General Fund transferred $1,825,000 in; BPROUD ended with net position of $2,344,584 and owed the General Fund $1,140,988. | $1.8 million | source |
| Baldwin Park BPROUD | FY2022-23 | With no customers, the BPROUD fund had $331,260 in expenses and transferred $1,920,029 to the General Fund; net position fell to $127,350, and the amount owed to the General Fund was cleared. | $1.9 million | source |
| Baldwin Park BPROUD | FY2023-24 | The BPROUD fund was still open at June 30 2024: $49,126 other revenue, $37,117 contractual services, net position $142,685. | $142,685 | source |
| Butte Choice Energy | 2017-08-08 | The Butte County Board of Supervisors approved a contract with EES Consulting (Kirkland, WA) for the CCA feasibility study, paid from the county's Utilities Internal Service Fund (first placed on the May 9 2017 agenda, approved Aug 8 2017). | $94,000 | source |
| Butte Choice Energy | 2018-11-06 | County staff estimated start-up funding of about $600,000-$800,000, to be loaned by the founding members ($300K-$400K each), plus about $2.5M (phase 1) and $3M (phase 2) of energy-procurement credit, the first of which lenders would want the members to guarantee. | source | |
| Butte Choice Energy | 2019-11-05 | The county contracted with LEAN Energy US for technical help to the new Butte Choice Energy Authority and moved $48,000 from General Fund contingencies, to be repaid once BCE operated. | $84,000 | source |
| Butte Choice Energy | 2020-02-11 | The county contracted EES Consulting for technical assistance in establishing BCE and moved $75,000 from General Fund contingencies, repayable once BCE operated. | $75,000 | source |
| Butte Choice Energy | 2020-04-14 | The county contracted Best Best & Krieger for BCE legal services and moved $40,000 from General Fund contingencies. | $120,000 | source |
| Butte Choice Energy | 2020-06-30 | BCE's FY2019-20 actuals: $600,000 'Transfers in from Agencies' and a $100,000 Calpine loan (posted as the CPUC bond); spending through June 30 2020 was $349,922 (legal $39,650, consulting $210,272, CPUC bond $100,000), leaving $350,078 carried over. | $600,000 | source |
| Butte Choice Energy | 2020-07-09 | BCE's 2018-2020 expense detail totaled $344,441.14, including the EES feasibility study (about $85,000), the EES implementation plan ($28,505), Butte County staff labor ($87,019.62), City of Chico labor ($7,500), LEAN Energy, Best Best & Krieger and CEO recruitment; another $210,271.52 remained on open contracts. | $344,441 | source |
| Butte Choice Energy | 2020-12-14 | When Oroville joined, BCE committed $90,000 reimbursable to the City of Oroville under JPA sec. 7.3.2, and Oroville owed a $18,918 payment for costs incurred to date. | $18,918 | source |
| Butte Choice Energy | 2021-01-12 | The county amended the Best Best & Krieger contract for BCE legal services, extending it to June 30 2022, with costs split among the three agencies and repayable once BCE was operating (launch then expected fall 2023). | $280,000 | source |
| Butte Choice Energy | 2022-05-10 | The county contracted GDS Associates (EES Consulting is 'a GDS Associates Company') to redo load, rate, procurement, risk and pro-forma analysis for a 2024 launch; the county was to be reimbursed 57.5% of the cost by the other members (BCE scope: $50,000 basic plus $15,000 implementation plan). | $70,000 | source |
| Butte Choice Energy | 2024-07-30 | With a BCE launch 'not currently viable', Pioneer Community Energy offered to pay half of a $30,000 assessment study of Butte jurisdictions joining Pioneer; the other $15,000 was to be split among Butte County, Chico, Oroville and Paradise. | $30,000 | source |
| CalCCA's statewide claims | 2019-12 | A December 2019 review by Peter Millman and Marie Cantino repeats CalCCA's '$90 million in 2018' figure, quoting the 'CCA Benefits' sheet; it adds no method. | $90.0 million | source |
| CalCCA's statewide claims | 2023-08 | A different metric that is not a bill-savings total: CalCCA's Summer 2023 newsletter estimated $840 million of savings over three decades from more than $5 billion of CCCFA clean-energy prepayment bonds. | $840.0 million | source |
| CalCCA's statewide claims | 2024-02 | CalCCA's February 2024 affordability explainer, which the Spring 2024 newsletter links as its source, says CCAs 'collectively saved their customers about $760 million per year in bill savings' in 2023 compared to non-CCA counterparts. It gives no method, data source, comparison basis or footnote; its only footnote cites a State Auditor report on IOU rates. | $760.0 million | source |
| CalCCA's statewide claims | 2025-04 | CalCCA's Spring 2025 newsletter has no statewide CCA bill-savings total. It reports only per-CCA figures (e.g., Ava 'over $140 million' since 2018, Pioneer '$108 million' since 2018) and bond-prepayment savings. | source | |
| CalCCA's statewide claims | 2026-10-20 | CalCCA's affordability page (fetched 2026-10-20) no longer carries a statewide bill-savings total; its dollar claims are hourly-RA trading savings (over $180 million a year, CalCCA estimate) and bond-prepayment savings (about $84 million a year), with no method stated for either. | source | |
| Western Community Energy | 2020-10-08 | Background: CPUC Resolution E-5059 held that customers involuntarily returned from a CCA bear cost responsibility for re-entry fees the CPUC deems necessary to avoid shifting costs to bundled customers, even above the CCA's posted financial security; disputed fees go to the POLR proceeding. | source | |
| Western Community Energy | 2021-04-14 | WRCOG staff told its Administration & Finance Committee that WRCOG had been paying WCE's costs and being reimbursed since July 2020, that WCE's lender Barclays viewed these transfers as debt, and proposed a First Amendment to the Management Services Agreement letting WRCOG make unsecured 'Advances' to WCE's operating account, junior to Barclays, at LAIF + 1%, repayable within 180 days, capped at $1,000,000 outstanding. | $1.0 million | source |
| Western Community Energy | 2021-06-17 | WCE's first chapter 9 list of its 20 largest unsecured creditors listed WRCOG with a 'Management Services' claim. | $4.4 million | source |
| Western Community Energy | 2021-07-12 | SCE filed Advice Letter 4541-E setting out the re-entry fee calculation for WCE's returned customers under SCE Rule 23. | source | |
| Western Community Energy | 2021-08-10 | Energy Division suspended AL 4541-E (and AL 3840-E); per Resolution E-5059 a protested re-entry fee is referred to the Provider of Last Resort rulemaking (R.21-03-011). | source | |
| Western Community Energy | 2021-09-30 | SCE filed four proofs of claim against WCE totaling $25,706,028.72 plus post-petition servicing fees, mostly asserted as priority/secured. | $25.7 million | source |
| Western Community Energy | 2021-10-01 | By the claims bar date, 23 proofs of claim totaling $49,839,737.06 had been filed against WCE, of which Barclays, part of SCE's claim, and River City Bank asserted $22,933,129.74 as secured. | $49.8 million | source |
| Western Community Energy | 2021-12-16 | When it sought approval of the Barclays settlement, WCE was holding $12,913,712.49 in its River City Bank lockbox account and $12,395,467.34 in its operating account. | source | |
| Western Community Energy | 2022-01 | WRCOG hired Slovak, Baron, Empey, Murphy & Pinkney (hourly rates) to pursue its creditor claim in WCE's chapter 9 case, and in February 2022 hired Municipal Resource Group to review the bankruptcy process. | $25,000 | source |
| Western Community Energy | 2022-01-06 | The court approved WCE paying Barclays Bank PLC (lender under a March 12 2020 Revolving Credit Agreement) $7,500,000 in full satisfaction of its secured claim, filed at $11,031,644.00 (the motion says about $11,600,000); Barclays then dropped its lawsuit and claim objection. | $7.5 million | source |
| Western Community Energy | 2022-02-15 | Under the court-approved SCE settlement, WCE paid SCE $6,000,000 in cash, half allocated to SCE's re-entry-fee claim and half to resource adequacy and servicing claims; WCE also assigned its NEM contracts and all remaining customer receivables (including about $2,362,993 eligible for state CAPP relief) to SCE. | $6.0 million | source |
| Western Community Energy | 2022-03-17 | WCE's amended list of creditors raised WRCOG's 'Management Services' claim; this list is attached to the disclosure statement on which creditors voted. | $5.0 million | source |
| Western Community Energy | 2022-05-05 | In the confirmed plan, SCE's secured claim was reduced to $0 after WCE paid $7,875,509.68 including NEM agreement cure amounts, and SCE kept an allowed general unsecured claim of $16,138,192.04 (stated as $16,190,322.00 elsewhere in the disclosure statement). | $7.9 million | source |
| Western Community Energy | 2022-05-05 | Pilot Power Group (listed by WCE as consultant, hedged-energy and RPS supplier) had claimed $1,848,988.70 as administrative plus $1,456,690.47 unsecured; by stipulation its claim was allowed only as an $800,000 general unsecured claim. | $800,000 | source |
| Western Community Energy | 2022-05-05 | Plan treatment of general unsecured creditors (Class 2, estimated at $25,050,681.44): a lump sum of $9,374,526.65 on the effective date, about 39.86% of each claim, plus later pro rata release of a $609,748.15 reserve held for the disputed CPUC penalty claim and of a $200,000 implementation reserve. | $9.4 million | source |
| Western Community Energy | 2022-08-12 | WCE's court-required disclosure of compensation shows WCE paid WRCOG for services and expenses during the chapter 9 case (May 24 2021 to Aug 12 2022). | $474,578 | source |
| Western Community Energy | 2022-08-12 | WCE disclosed $2,145,212.83 paid for services and expenses in the chapter 9 case, including Golden Goodrich LLP $484,970.66, WRCOG $474,577.73, Calpine Energy Solutions $459,867.14, Best Best & Krieger $455,746.38 and Boutin Jones $161,807.00. | $2.1 million | source |
| Western Community Energy | 2022-08-16 | The court confirmed the plan with no objections; Class 2 voted unanimously to accept. The plan permanently bars creditors from suing or collecting against the member cities ('Partners': Canyon Lake, Eastvale, Hemet, Jurupa Valley, Norco, Perris, Wildomar) or their property, and exculpates them. | source | |
| Western Community Energy | 2022-09 | WRCOG's FY2021-22 ACFR says that about 42% of what WCE owed WRCOG (about $5 million at the time of the bankruptcy) was paid to WRCOG in September 2022 as an unsecured creditor. | source | |
| Western Community Energy | 2022-10 | SCE began billing former WCE customers for the unrecovered ('residual') re-entry fee under Advice Letter 4813-E. | source | |
| Western Community Energy | 2022-10-03 | At the WRCOG Executive Committee, Supervisor Kevin Jeffries asked how 'transfers, not authorized by this Committee, to Western Community Energy' were being managed; the CFO said write-offs were reflected in the FY2022/23 budget and the Executive Director said WCE losses became final only on adoption of the plan of adjustment. | source | |
| Western Community Energy | 2023-04-03 | WRCOG's Executive Director reported to the Executive Committee that 'WCE is officially dissolved.' | source | |
| Western Community Energy | 2024-01 | SCE determined it had collected $6,232,698 in residual re-entry fees from former WCE customer accounts against a final residual re-entry fee of $5,220,043, so it over-collected $1,012,655. | $5.2 million | source |
| Western Community Energy | 2024-03 | Starting March 2024 SCE issued bill credits of $1,012,655 plus interest to the former WCE accounts that had paid residual re-entry fees; SCE anticipates no further WCE-related cost recovery. | $1.0 million | source |
| Western Community Energy | FY2020-21 | WRCOG's FY2020-21 ACFR (Note 14) says WRCOG provided WCE start-up costs plus additional amounts to support operations, WCE owed WRCOG approximately $5 million, and only 20 to 30 percent was expected to be recovered as an unsecured creditor. | $5.0 million | source |
| Western Community Energy | FY2021-22 | WRCOG's proposed FY2022/23 budget showed a 'WCE Write-off' of (3,000,000) in the General Fund's FY21/22 budget column. | $3.0 million | source |
| Western Community Energy | FY2021-22 | WRCOG recorded the unrecovered remainder of the WCE receivable as bad debt in Energy expenditures; Energy-function expenses rose from $3,110,304 (FY2020-21) to $6,086,935 (FY2021-22), which the MD&A attributes mostly to this bad debt. | $2.1 million | source |
Studies and projections councils were shown
| Date | City | CCA | Study | Projected for customers | What the council did | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-08-04 | Laguna Beach | Orange County Power Authority | Environmental Sustainability Committee energy subcommittee (July 20, 2026), from OCPA audited statements paid by city | joining OCPA will increase electricity bills | average monthly residential bills would increase ~15% if we chose 100% renewable energy as a default | defer further evaluation of potential Orange County Power Authority membership at this time | document |
| 2026-04-07 | Oroville | NewGen Strategy Solutions (municipal utility and City-operated CCA vs PG&E or Pioneer) paid by city · NOT-TO-EXCEED $40,000.00 | — | Later: the CCA analysis concluded that market conditions do not currently provide sufficient opportunity to achieve meaningful savings beyond those already realized through Pioneer Community Energy | document · later | |
| 2026-03-25 | Bakersfield | Calchoice | California Choice Energy Authority (CalChoice) — Community Choice Aggregation Technical Study: Summary of Results, November 2025 paid by unknown | Rates are expected to be competitive and fall within the high and low ranges of future PG&E rates. | PG&E Monthly Bill ($) $262.06 / $279.67 / $245.42 | Motion by Councilmember Smith to move forward, provide direction to staff to proceed with Utility Scale Distributed Energy Resources Implementation Planning | document |
| 2026-02-17 | Coronado | San Diego Community Power | Council CCA Subcommittee (Downey, Purvis) with staff paid by city | Average Monthly Bill ($) $162.86 $159.95 $161.03 $164.86 | Receive the report from the Community Choice Aggregation (CCA) Subcommittee and consider the recommendation to direct staff to initiate the City of Coronado joining San Diego Community Power. Yes (5) Later: SDCP staff has advised that no membership fee is anticipated for the City of Coronado | Customer enrollment is currently anticipated to begin March 2028 | document · later |
| 2026-02-10 | Laguna Beach | Orange County Power Authority | OCPA (prospective-city deck) paid by CCA | Across all plans, OCPA has saved customers $17.4M Across California, CCAs have saved customers $760M+ | Later: joining OCPA will increase electricity bills | document · later |
| 2025-11-04 | Colusa | Pioneer Community Energy | Pioneer Impact Assessment Study (listed attachment; its text is not in the record) paid by unknown | — | requesting membership in Pioneer Community Energy … Motion passed 5-0 | document |
| 2025-10-07 | Cudahy | Clean Power Alliance | City staff summary (no CPA study or rate table in the record) paid by unknown | While there are no rate guarantees, CPA's monthly rates, inclusive of Southern California Edison ('SCE') delivery charges, averaged +/- 5% of SCE's rates over the last three years, depending on the tier rate. | On October 21, 2025, the City Council adopted Ordinance No. 761 | document |
| 2025-09-02 | Costa Mesa | Orange County Power Authority | Pacific Energy Advisors (PEA), engaged by OCPA paid by CCA | OCPA currently offers a 3% discount compared to SCE's equivalent generation rate on the Basic Choice plan, which customers have enjoyed approximately $2.6 million in on-bill savings since its inception. | Direct staff to draft an ordinance for the October 7th meeting to join the Orange County Power Authority Later: Costa Mesa deciding in December 2025 not to participate at this time. | document · later |
| 2025-07-17 | Clearlake | Sonoma Clean Power | Sonoma Clean Power staff (same May 2025 Lake County study) paid by CCA | 1.46 cents per kWh to 4.69 cents per kWh of savings relative to PG&E service, which represents 9.8% to 28.7% savings on generation or 4.2% to 12.9% savings on a total bill basis | Voting Yea: Mayor Cremer, Vice Mayor Slooten Voting Nay: Councilmember Downey, Councilmember Hooten, Councilmember Wilson | document |
| 2025-07-15 | Lakeport | Sonoma Clean Power | Sonoma Clean Power staff (Feasibility Study, May 2025, Version 1.1) paid by CCA | 1.46 cents per kWh to 4.69 cents per kWh of savings relative to PG&E service, which represents 9.8% to 28.7% savings on generation or 4.2% to 12.9% savings on a total bill basis | The Council did not consider the resolution and ordinance regarding joining Sonoma Clean Power. | document |
| 2025-06-03 | Coronado | University of San Diego Energy Policy Initiative Center (EPIC) — Community Choice Aggregation Comparison Report, May 2025 paid by unknown | Average CCA rates for both default and opt-down service are lower than SDG&E service for all customer classes. | Establish a subcommittee specifically identifying: the costs of leaving a CCA | document | |
| 2025-02-04 | Lynwood | Clean Power Alliance | Clean Power Alliance bill-comparison tables reproduced by City staff paid by CCA | Projected Average Total Monthly Bill (Based on projected SCE and PCIA rates as of October 2025) … Residential $191 $193 $202 | approve the item and Clean Power Default Rate. Motion carried by the following 5/0 vote | document |
| 2025-01-28 | Buena Park | Orange County Power Authority | Buena Park staff with OCPA update paid by city | total bill savings of 1.1% for a typical residential customer using 425 kWh per month and 1.2% for a typical small commercial customer using 900 kWh | RESOLUTION NO.14945 | document |
| 2025-01-21 | Yuba City | Pioneer Community Energy | Pioneer / Pacific Energy Advisors Impact Assessment Study paid by city · Fiscal Impact: $5,000 - Account No. 1305-62701 | Current rates average 7% discount | per their report, has saved ratepayers $85 million in the last five years | Adopt Resolution 25-012 requesting membership in Pioneer Community Energy | document |
| 2025-01-14 | Hercules | MCE | MCE (pre-launch enrollment presentation) paid by CCA | Average Total Monthly Cost $199.49 $203.94 $205.93 | Later: Average Total Monthly Cost $196.86 $202.33 $179.26 | A 14% reduction in MCE's generation rate | document · later |
| 2025-01-14 | Paradise | Pioneer Community Energy | Pioneer / Pacific Energy Advisors Impact Assessment Study (Sept 2024) paid by city · authorized the Town Manager to jointly commission an Impact Assessment Study … with a not-to-exceed amount of $3750 | $85 million, with an additional $21 million in anticipated savings in 2024 | Waived the first reading of Town Ordinance No. 641 Later: From 2018 – 2025, customers have saved $145 million compared to PG&E. | document · later |
| 2024-12-16 | Sonora | Pioneer Community Energy | Pioneer / Pacific Energy Advisors Impact Assessment Study paid by city · The total cost of the IAS was $30,000. Pioneer paid 50%, which is $15,000 of the cost … Applying this percentage of use, Tuolumne County will pay $12,992 and City of Sonora $2,008. | Current rates average 7% discount | Adopt Ordinance No. 902 and Resolution 02-18-2025-A | document |
| 2024-10-02 | Live Oak | Pioneer Community Energy | Pacific Energy Advisors Impact Assessment Study for Pioneer (Sept 2024) paid by city · The total cost of the IAS was $30,000. Pioneer paid 50% --$15,000 of the cost. Sutter County, Yuba City, and Live Oak are sharing the remaining $15,000 equally, for a total cost of $5,000 to each jurisdiction. | Current rates average 7% discount | From 2018 through 2023, Pioneer customers have saved $85 million, with an additional $21 million in anticipated savings in 2024 | Ordinance No. 587 adopted; and 3) Resolution No. 01-2025 adopted | document |
| 2024-10-01 | Fountain Valley | Orange County Power Authority | Pacific Energy Advisors (PEA), engaged by OCPA (report body not in the record) paid by CCA | 90% of the enrolled customer accounts will opt for the OCPA Basic Choice rate plan, which offers 44% renewable energy content at a 3% discount compared to the equivalent SCE generation rates | Move to proceed with joining the Orange County Power Authority Later: approximately $6.0 million in incremental revenue and a positive operating margin of approximately $0.6 million in FY 2026/27 | document · later |
| 2024-10-01 | Oroville | Pioneer Community Energy | Pacific Energy Advisors (PEA), commissioned by Pioneer (Impact Assessment Study, Sept 2024) paid by city · The total cost of the IAS was $30,000. Pioneer paid 50%-$15,000 of the cost. Oroville, Butte County, Chico, and Paradise are sharing the remaining $15,000 equally, for a total cost of $3,750 to each jurisdiction. | Current rates average 7% discount | Direction given to staff to proceed with Pioneer Energy. | document |
| 2024-09-24 | Fontana | GDS Associates / EES Consulting team (Tenaska, Calpine Energy Solutions, Best Best & Krieger …) paid by unknown · There is no cost to the city for performing the feasibility study. | — | Later: no other cities have expressed interest in partnering | document · later | |
| 2024-07-01 | Sonora | Tuolumne County staff (CCA decision matrix comparing Ava, Pioneer, VCE, PCE) paid by unknown | In 2024, rates ranged from 10% to 19%, depending on the vintage year of the jurisdiction. Historically, Pioneer has offered the lowest rates among CCAs served by PG&E. | Rates have historically ranged from a 1.5% to a 5% discount as of last June | document | ||
| 2024-03-28 | Oakland | Ava Community Energy | City of Oakland informational report on a Renewable 100 default paid by city | approximately $2.98 per month greater per account than the current default Bright Choice plan, and $0.67 per month greater than the comparable PG&E rate... an added cost of $35-$41 per year | document | |
| 2024-01-30 | Fountain Valley | Orange County Power Authority | OCPA and SCE presentations at a council study session paid by CCA | 2% less than SCE's equivalent generation rate | ($1.89) | $2.36 (1.9%) | $4.49 (3.6%) | document | |
| 2023-12-14 | Fresno | Western Community Energy | WRCOG Technical Advisory Committee report (Feb 2019), reproduced in a Fresno EIR attachment paid by unknown | Current WCE member jurisdictions are expected to save its residents and businesses over $6 million per year | Later: At the time of its bankruptcy, WCE served 113,000 customers in six cities within Riverside County and had accumulated debt of $100 million with less than $50 million in available assets | document · later |
| 2023-06-13 | Vacaville | MCE | Marin Clean Energy (presentation and staff report listed as attachments; their text is not in the record) paid by unknown | — | Deny request and require a majority vote of the Council to bring any future requests for Community Choice Aggregation | document |
| 2023-06-08 | Avenal | EES Consulting, A GDS Associates Company — Gary Saleba … Howard Choy paid by unknown | so far CCAs have generally been around 5% lower than PG&E prices | table item until further notice | document | |
| 2023-06-07 | Santa Paula | Clean Power Alliance | Clean Power Alliance (City-account estimates provided by CPA from 2022 SCE data supplied by staff) paid by CCA | 100% Green Power rates will be at a 3% premium to SCE rates, Clean Power will be at a 1% discount to SCE, and Lean Power will be at a 2% discount to SCE | Approve 100% Green Clean Power Alliance … Motion carried 4-1 Later: As of March 24, 2024, 6.01% of Santa Paula customers have opted out of CPA service | avoiding $102,456 in additional annual utility charges which have not been budgeted for | document · later |
| 2023-06-06 | Coronado | ICF (the City's CAP consultant) — Community Choice Aggregation Evaluation Memo, draft May 22, 2023 paid by unknown | Avg. Residential Bill: + $1/month; Avg. Commercial Bill: +$7/month | slight cost savings or a slight cost increase | direct staff to provide options on conducting a feasibility study | document | |
| 2023-05-16 | Fullerton | Orange County Power Authority | ACES (proposal to benchmark Fullerton's OCPA withdrawal costs; not hired) paid by unknown · Fees for these services will be $12,675 | — | directed staff to ask OCPA for information regarding withdrawal | document |
| 2023-05-16 | Lynwood | Clean Power Alliance | Clean Power Alliance (required feasibility study; findings not in any packet) paid by city · BUDGETARY TRANSFER FROM UNAPPROPRIATED GENERAL FUND … IN THE AMOUNT OF $10,000 | — | Motion carried by 3/2 vote | document |
| 2023-03-14 | Hercules | MCE | MCE staff (joint PG&E–MCE rate comparison, rates as of June 1, 2022) paid by CCA | Average Monthly Bill ($) $168.53 $156.87 $161.74 | 1% less expensive than PG&E on average | direction to staff to pursue joining MCE in 2023 with the Light Green option as the default option Later: Average Total Monthly Cost $196.86 $202.33 $179.26 | MCE Participation Rate 93% | document · later |
| 2023-03-13 | Lathrop | Ava Community Energy | EBCE staff (presentation; no city-commissioned study) paid by CCA | BRIGHT CHOICE 50% renewable energy at rates 3% below PG&E | EBCE customers will save $19 Million throughout the 22-23 FY | adopted Ordinance 23-447 Later: 5% savings on your bill compared to PG&E standard rates | document · later |
| 2023-01-17 | Huntington Beach | Orange County Power Authority | Huntington Beach staff (Feb 1, 2022 report, re-attached Jan 2023) paid by city | — | document | |
| 2023-01-17 | Huntington Beach | Orange County Power Authority | Huntington Beach staff (slide on default selection for municipal accounts) paid by city | OCPA Basic Choice -2% standard SCE rate | Later: resulted in a 2 - 3 percent increase in energy costs to the City, or approximately $200,000 annually | document · later |
| 2022-10-26 | Nevada City | Pioneer Community Energy | Pioneer Community Energy (Expansion Analysis Overview, October 3, 2022) paid by city · The cost to initiate the Implementation Study is $15,000 representing 50% of the cost with Pioneer Community Energy responsible for the remaining $15,000 cost. | Customer Class Annual Savings Estimate* Savings %* Residential $65,036 6% Non-Residential $118,432 6% Total $183,469 6% | Approved 5-0 Later: Selection of the Green100 product is anticipated in resulting in an approximate savings of $5000 over current fiscal year rates with PG&E | document · later |
| 2022-10-26 | Colfax | Pioneer Community Energy | Pioneer Community Energy Staff (expansion assessment; Colfax is a founding member) paid by CCA | The results of that assessment determined the proposed expansion to be beneficial to both the existing customers in the current Pioneer service area, as well as potential customers in Grass Valley and Nevada City | AYES: Lomen, Ackerman, Fatula, Mendoza … ABSTAIN: Burruss Later: a statistic of having a 16% lower rate than PG&E | document · later |
| 2022-10-11 | Grass Valley | Pioneer Community Energy | Impact Assessment Study commissioned by Pioneer (study not attached) paid by city · The City bore a fiscal impact capped at $15,000 to fund half the cost of an impact assessment study with Pioneer funding the other half. | The Impact Assessment Study indicates that the City residents and businesses should expect to see annual savings of more than $650,000, based on 2022 electric rates. | approve Pioneer Community Energy to procure the necessary energy to serve the City of Grass Valley starting in January 2024 Later: TOTAL ACROSS ALL ELIGIBLE ACCOUNTS PG&E Pioneer Standard Pioneer Green100 … $ 58,980.72 $ 54,115.44 $ 58,528.35 … SAVINGS $ 4,865.28 $ 452.38 | document · later |
| 2022-10-04 | Lake Forest | Staff public-engagement presentation; King City Community Power; Mark Fulmer of MRW and Associates on Western Community Energy paid by unknown | — | postpone discussions surrounding CCA's for a couple years Later: The City is no longer actively considering CCA. | document · later | |
| 2022-09-13 | Stockton | MRW & Associates, LLC (with Tierra Resource Consultants, ch. 7, and EBP-US, ch. 8) — stand-alone CCA feasibility study paid by grant · grant funds available from Sonoma Clean Power Authority (SCPA) | from roughly $10 million per year in 2023 to over $26 million per year by 2030 … average … $25.2 million per year | Motion carried 7-0 | document | |
| 2022-09-13 | Stockton | Ava Community Energy | EBCE staff (membership letter, 5/12/2022) paid by CCA · this process will carry no direct cost to the City of Stockton, through either this assessment phase or upon joining the EBCE JPA | would have collectively saved nearly $1.5 million on their utility bills | Motion carried 7-0 Later: Ava's rates are 5% lower than that [PG&E's generation credit], and the customer pockets the difference | Service begins April 1, 2025 | document · later |
| 2022-09-06 | Buena Park | Orange County Power Authority | Buena Park staff (Feb 22, 2022 study session, as quoted by the OC Grand Jury) paid by city | — | Later: annual saving of approximately $55,000 for all City accounts | document · later |
| 2022-08-03 | Santa Paula | Clean Power Alliance | Clean Power Alliance (Applicant Impact Study; findings not in any packet) paid by city · Applicant Impact Study … at a fixed fee cost of $10,000, payable by the City of Santa Paula | — | Motion carried 5-0 | document |
| 2022-06-01 | Santa Paula | Clean Power Alliance | Clean Power Alliance (Ted Bardacke letter, May 24, 2022) and City staff options report paid by CCA | From 2018 through 2020, Clean Power Alliance's rates were 1-2 percent less expensive than SCE's for Lean Power, at parity with SCE for Clean Power, and 7-9 percent more expensive for 100 percent Green Power | document | |
| 2022-03-22 | Grass Valley | Pioneer Community Energy | Pioneer Community Energy (Don Eckert, Executive Director) paid by CCA · The initial fiscal impact for the City is $15,000 to conduct an Implementation Study … (Pioneer funds the other $15,000) | Electricity rates as of March 2022 average 6 to 10% below PG&E's rates (depending on power charge indifference adjustment vintage) | Average Annual Savings $70.59 - $116.53 | document | |
| 2022-03-16 | Baldwin Park | Baldwin Park Resident Owned Utility District (BPROUD) | Baldwin Park staff (Decertification and Reversion Process – Summary Report) paid by city | — | Later: $274,229 … Net revenue to the General Fund | document · later |
| 2022-02-01 | Huntington Beach | Orange County Power Authority | Huntington Beach staff (request for council action, Feb 1, 2021, attached 2022) paid by city | — | Later: began repayment to the City of Irvine for their initial investment of $7 million dollars to OCPA | document · later |
| 2022-02-01 | Fullerton | Orange County Power Authority | Fullerton staff (default-tier report) paid by city | 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 Later: at current rates the city is enjoying a 2% savings vs the comparable SCE generation rates which will result in an approximate 2023 savings of $38,000 | document · later |
Costs of studying, joining or starting a CCA
| Date | City | CCA | Kind | Figure | What it is | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-21 | Baldwin Park | Baldwin Park Resident Owned Utility District (BPROUD) | Study / start-up | $ 3,437.00 city pays | General Fund pays Best Best & Krieger 3,437.00 for August 2026 'energy advice-BPROUD'. | passage · city original |
| 2026-10-21 | Baldwin Park | Baldwin Park Resident Owned Utility District (BPROUD) | Study / start-up | $ 73.20 city pays | General Fund pays Best Best & Krieger 73.20 for July 2026 'energy advice-BPROUD'. | passage · city original |
| 2026-09-02 | Baldwin Park | Baldwin Park Resident Owned Utility District (BPROUD) | Study / start-up | 141.20 city pays | General Fund pays Best Best & Krieger 141.20 for June 2026 'energy advice-BPROUD'. | passage · city original |
| 2026-08-25 | South Lake Tahoe | Study / start-up | $15,000 a year · city pays · approved / budgeted | South Lake Tahoe's budget includes $15,000 to support the potential for the City to join a CCA. | passage · city original | |
| 2026-06-23 | San Jose | San José Clean Energy | Joining | $650,000 a year · city pays · estimate / proposal | Council is asked to authorize the Energy Department to pay San José's share of California Community Power JPA operating costs, up to $650,000, for FY 2026-2027. | passage · city original |
| 2026-04-21 | Oroville | Pioneer Community Energy | Study / start-up | not to exceed $15,000 city pays | Strategic Energy Experts advisory contract up to $15,000 ($130–$285 an hour); scope includes withdrawing from Pioneer and its costs. | passage · city original |
| 2026-04-14 | Laguna Beach | Orange County Power Authority | Study / start-up | $50,000 city pays · estimate / proposal | Laguna Beach estimates outside legal counsel to evaluate joining Orange County Power Authority would cost up to $50,000, not yet budgeted, to be considered in the FY 2026-27 budget. | passage · city original |
| 2026-04-14 | Laguna Beach | Orange County Power Authority | Study / start-up | $40,000 city pays · estimate / proposal | Laguna Beach estimates paying $40,000 to $50,000 for outside legal review of joining Orange County Power Authority; not yet budgeted, to be considered in FY 2026-27 budget. | passage · city original |
| 2026-04-14 | Laguna Beach | Orange County Power Authority | Study / start-up | approximately $40-50,000 | Outside counsel for an OCPA review estimated at $40–50,000; the council removed any work requiring spending. | passage · city original |
| 2026-04-07 | Oroville | Pioneer Community Energy | Study / start-up | NOT-TO-EXCEED $40,000.00 city pays | Oroville, already in Pioneer, hires NewGen (up to $40,000) to compare a municipal utility or city-run CCA with PG&E or Pioneer. | passage · city original |
| 2026-03-31 | Costa Mesa | Orange County Power Authority | Study / start-up | $ 150,000 | Costa Mesa's own $150,000 Citywide Community Choice Energy Study, budgeted then deferred, is 'not considered at this time' in the 2026 capital plan. | passage · city original |
| 2026-03-25 | Bakersfield | Calchoice | Study / start-up | $6,780,000 over several years · city pays · estimate / proposal | Estimated total CCA implementation costs of $6.78 million for Bakersfield (staffing, technical services, marketing, working cash flow), Oct 2026 to Feb 2028, part of a $16 million financing requirement. | passage · city original |
| 2026-03-25 | Bakersfield | Study / start-up | $1,200 over several years · city pays · estimate / proposal | Estimated $1.2 million for staffing and overhead from Oct 2026 to Feb 2028, part of $6.78 million implementation costs to start a Bakersfield CCA. | passage · city original | |
| 2026-03-25 | Bakersfield | Study / start-up | $100,000 city pays · estimate / proposal | Bakersfield estimates its CCA Implementation Plan will cost $50,000 to $100,000, paid from existing General Fund appropriations in the non-departmental fund. | passage · city original | |
| 2026-03-25 | Bakersfield | Calchoice | Study / start-up | $50,000 city pays · estimate / proposal | Bakersfield estimates its CCA Implementation Plan will cost $50,000 to $100,000 (low end marked), paid from existing General Fund appropriations. | passage · city original |
| 2026-03-25 | Bakersfield | Calchoice | Study / start-up | between $50,000 and $100,000 city pays | Next step after CalChoice's technical study: a CCA Implementation Plan estimated at $50,000–$100,000 from General Fund appropriations. | passage · city original |
| 2026-02-17 | Coronado | Clean Energy Alliance | Study / start-up | $50,000 city pays · estimate / proposal | Clean Energy Alliance estimates Coronado's one-time cost to join (technical study, amended implementation plan, expansion activities) at under $50,000, possibly reimbursable within three years of service. | passage · city original |
| 2026-02-17 | Coronado | Clean Energy Alliance | Joining | less than $50,000 city pays | The Clean Energy Alliance alternative: joining costs estimated under $50,000, possibly reimbursable within three years of service. | passage · city original |
| 2025-10-21 | Lakeport | Sonoma Clean Power | Joining | no fiscal impact | Lakeport staff recommend joining SCP with no General Fund impact; start-up and operations funded by program revenues. | passage · city original |
| 2025-06-03 | San Jose | San José Clean Energy | Joining | $410,000 a year · city pays · estimate / proposal | San José estimates it will pay about $410,000 as its share of California Community Power's budgeted costs for FY 2025-26, capped at $600,000, subject to appropriation. | passage · city original |
| 2025-06-03 | Stockton | Ava Community Energy | Study / start-up | $100,000 city pays · approved / budgeted | Stockton council appropriated $100,000 from Air Quality Mitigation Public Facility Fee funds for a Community Choice Aggregation feasibility study, approved August 20, 2019. | passage · city original |
| 2025-06-03 | Coronado | Joining | no fiscal impact | Coronado receives USD EPIC's comparison of SDCP and CEA; item fiscal impact none; EPIC's fee is not stated. | passage · city original | |
| 2025-06-02 | Oakdale | Study / start-up | $75,000 city pays · estimate / proposal | Oakdale would pay Bell Burnett & Associates a fixed $75,000 from the General Fund for an electric utility feasibility study, which includes Community Choice Aggregation among options, budgeted FY 2025/2026. | passage · city original | |
| 2025-05-27 | Fillmore | Clean Power Alliance | Study / start-up | $10k city pays · estimate / proposal | Fillmore would pay a $10K fee for the Clean Power Alliance feasibility study; council voted 3-1 to participate, in May 2025. | passage · city original |
| 2025-02-18 | Cudahy | Clean Power Alliance | Study / start-up | 10,000.00 city pays | Cudahy warrant register: $10,000 paid to Clean Power Alliance on Jan 30, 2025; the register does not state the purpose. | passage · city original |
| 2025-01-21 | Yuba City | Pioneer Community Energy | Joining | no fiscal impact | Yuba City staff: no cost to join Pioneer; new members' costs are funded through Pioneer rates. | passage · city original |
| 2025-01-15 | Live Oak | Pioneer Community Energy | Joining | no fiscal impact | Live Oak introduces its Pioneer ordinance; staff: no risk to the General Fund. | passage · city original |
| 2025-01-14 | Paradise | Pioneer Community Energy | Study / start-up | $15,000 city pays · approved / budgeted | Jurisdictions joining Pioneer, including Paradise, split a cap of $15,000 to fund half the Impact Assessment Study cost; Pioneer paid the other half. | passage · city original |
| 2024-12-16 | Sonora | Pioneer Community Energy | Study / start-up | $2,008 city pays | Sonora's usage-based share of Pioneer's $30,000 impact study: $2,008 (Tuolumne County pays $12,992). | passage · city original |
| 2024-12-10 | Willows | Pioneer Community Energy | Study / start-up | $5,000 city pays · estimate / proposal | Willows would pay $5,000 as its share of a $30,000 Pioneer Community Energy Impact Assessment Study, with Pioneer funding half and Glenn County and Orland also paying $5,000 each. | passage · city original |
| 2024-10-22 | Oakland | Ava Community Energy | Joining | no fiscal impact | 25-year Ava solar-and-storage power purchase agreement for eleven critical facilities, presented as lowering electricity cost with no fiscal risk; no dollar amount. | passage · city original |
| 2024-10-02 | Live Oak | Pioneer Community Energy | Study / start-up | $30,000 city pays · actual / audited | Total Impact Assessment Study cost $30,000; Pioneer paid half and Sutter County, Yuba City and Live Oak split the rest, $5,000 each. Marked figure is the total, not Live Oak's share. | passage · city original |
| 2024-10-02 | Live Oak | Pioneer Community Energy | Study / start-up | $15,000 city pays · actual / audited | Remaining $15,000 of the $30,000 Impact Assessment Study for Pioneer expansion is split among Sutter County, Yuba City and Live Oak, $5,000 each; Pioneer paid the other half. | passage · city original |
| 2024-10-02 | Live Oak | Pioneer Community Energy | Study / start-up | $5,000 city pays | Live Oak's share of Pioneer's $30,000 Impact Assessment Study: $5,000; Pioneer paid half. | passage · city original |
| 2024-10-01 | Oroville | Pioneer Community Energy | Study / start-up | $30,000 city pays · actual / audited | Total Impact Assessment Study cost was $30,000; Pioneer paid half and Oroville, Butte County, Chico and Paradise each paid $3,750 of the rest. | passage · city original |
| 2024-10-01 | Oroville | Pioneer Community Energy | Study / start-up | $3,750 city pays | Pioneer's Impact Assessment Study cost $30,000; Pioneer paid half and Oroville paid a $3,750 share. 'No additional General Funds are required.' | passage · city original |
| 2024-10-01 | Chico | Pioneer Community Energy | Study / start-up | $3,750 city pays | Chico's $3,750 share of Pioneer's $30,000 Impact Assessment Study, as stated in Oroville's packet. | passage · city original |
| 2024-10-01 | Fountain Valley | Orange County Power Authority | Joining | no fiscal impact | FV introduces its OCPA ordinance and adopts the membership resolution; the feasibility study was OCPA's (Pacific Energy Advisors). | passage · city original |
| 2024-09-24 | Fontana | Study / start-up | $450,000 | The other bidder, Ascend Analytics, proposed a $450,000 study (not selected). | passage · city original | |
| 2024-09-24 | Fontana | Study / start-up | $120,000 a year · city pays · estimate / proposal | Estimated legal/regulatory consulting cost of $120,000 in the start-up phase (2026 column) for a proposed Fontana CCA, from GDS Associates' conceptual non-power operating cost table. | passage · city original | |
| 2024-09-24 | Fontana | Study / start-up | $40,000 a year · city pays · estimate / proposal | GDS Associates estimates $40,000 for legal/regulatory consulting in 2025, the post-feasibility phase, as part of non-power costs to form a Fontana CCA. | passage · city original | |
| 2024-09-24 | Fontana | Study / start-up | $5.47 a year · city pays · estimate / proposal | Estimated 2031 non-power operating cost of a proposed Fontana CCA, about $5.47 per MWh of retail sales, from a consultant proposal; a per-unit estimate, not a city payment. | passage · city original | |
| 2024-09-24 | Fontana | Study / start-up | $1.50 a month · city pays · estimate / proposal | Estimated 2026 start-up non-power operating cost for a proposed Fontana CCA, about $1.50 per customer per month, to be financed; a rough estimate from a consultant proposal. | passage · city original | |
| 2024-09-24 | Fontana | Study / start-up | $0.00 | Fontana engages GDS Associates for a no-cost feasibility study of a city-run CCA. | passage · city original | |
| 2024-09-17 | Cudahy | Clean Power Alliance | Joining | no fiscal impact | Cudahy asks staff to bring back joining Clean Power Alliance; no current General Fund impact. | passage · city original |
| 2024-08-19 | Piedmont | Ava Community Energy | Study / start-up | $75,000 city pays · approved / budgeted | Piedmont's council appropriated up to $75,000 from its General Fund in October 2021 to cover EV charger project costs beyond Ava's allotment; included in FY 2024-25 budget. | passage · city original |
| 2024-08-07 | West Sacramento | Pioneer Community Energy | Study / start-up | $15,000 city pays · estimate / proposal | Mayor proposes West Sacramento spend $15,000 on a Pioneer Community Energy feasibility assessment for citywide CCA implementation, pending Council consideration. | passage · city original |
| 2024-07-16 | Oroville | Pioneer Community Energy | Joining | no fiscal impact | Oroville sends Pioneer a letter of interest after Butte Choice's board decided not to launch; staff say a new CCA is still not financially feasible. | passage · city original |
| 2024-07-16 | Costa Mesa | Orange County Power Authority | Joining | no fiscal impact | Costa Mesa authorizes an NDA so OCPA can study its load data; no fiscal impact. OCPA paid Pacific Energy Advisors for the study. | passage · city original |
| 2024-07-09 | Paradise | Pioneer Community Energy | Study / start-up | $3750 city pays | Paradise authorizes up to $3,750 as its share of Pioneer's impact study; a resident objected to the Town paying. | passage · city original |
| 2024-06-18 | Yuba City | Pioneer Community Energy | Study / start-up | $15,000 city pays · estimate / proposal | Yuba City's estimated share of a jointly commissioned Pioneer impact assessment study is about one-third of the $15,000 half-cost not covered by Pioneer; allocation to be finalized later. | passage · city original |
| 2024-06-18 | Yuba City | Pioneer Community Energy | Study / start-up | $5,000 city pays | Yuba City's share of Pioneer's impact assessment study: $5,000 (about one-third of $15,000). | passage · city original |
| 2023-11-21 | Lynwood | Clean Power Alliance | Joining | no fiscal impact | Staff report on CPA's JPA: no direct costs to join; the $10,000 one-time feasibility study was the required cost. | passage · city original |
| 2023-08-23 | Solana Beach | Solana Energy Alliance | Study / start-up | $180.00 city pays · actual / audited | Solana Beach paid The Energy Authority $180 for June 2023 CCA fees for Solana Energy Alliance, per check register dated 07/13/2023. | passage · city original |
| 2023-07-10 | Lathrop | Ava Community Energy | Joining | no fiscal impact | Lathrop approves the EBCE JPA (Resolution 23-5338) and introduces its CCA ordinance; staff: no direct fiscal impact. | passage · city original |
| 2023-06-13 | Mountain View | Silicon Valley Clean Energy | Study / start-up | $40.0 million city pays · estimate / proposal | City estimates more than $40 million in its own costs to increase electrical grid capacity, explored in partnership with SVCE and PG&E; not a payment to or from the CCA. | passage · city original |
| 2023-06-06 | Coronado | Clean Energy Alliance | Study / start-up | approximately $20K city pays | ICF memo: a CEA-run feasibility assessment would cost Coronado about $20K, reimbursed after 3 years; council asks for study options. | passage · city original |
| 2023-06-06 | Coronado | San Diego Community Power | Study / start-up | $0.00 | ICF memo: SDCP would assess Coronado at no cost to the City because of its population. | passage · city original |
| 2023-06-05 | Port Hueneme | Clean Power Alliance | Study / start-up | $10,000 city pays · approved / budgeted | Port Hueneme council approved, 4-1, paying Clean Power Alliance a one-time $10,000 fee for a feasibility study on the city joining CPA. | passage · city original |
| 2023-05-16 | Fullerton | 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 |
| 2023-05-16 | Lynwood | Clean Power Alliance | Study / start-up | $10,000 city pays | Lynwood moves $10,000 from unappropriated General Fund for CPA's required feasibility study (Resolution 2023.049). | passage · city original |
| 2023-04-11 | San Jose | San José Clean Energy | Study / start-up | $23,306.00 city pays · approved / budgeted | City pays its auditor up to $23,306 in one-time start-up costs for FY ending June 2020 audits of Measure T Bond Fund and San José Clean Energy Fund; most goes to Clean Energy audits. | passage · city original |
| 2023-04-11 | San Jose | San José Clean Energy | Study / start-up | $13,492.00 city pays · estimate / proposal | City would pay its auditor a one-time start-up cost of $13,492 for the San José Clean Energy Fund audit for fiscal year ending June 30, 2020. | passage · city original |
| 2023-04-11 | San Jose | San José Clean Energy | Study / start-up | $9,074.44 city pays · estimate / proposal | City would pay its auditor an extra $9,074.44 in FY2023 for expanded San Jose Clean Energy Agreed Upon Procedures work, under a draft audit agreement amendment. | passage · city original |
| 2023-04-04 | Fullerton | 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 |
| 2023-03-14 | Hercules | MCE | Joining | There is no cost to join MCE in 2023 | MCE slide: no cost for Hercules to join in 2023. | passage · city original |
| 2023-03-14 | Hercules | MCE | Joining | no fiscal impact | Hercules directs staff to pursue joining MCE with Light Green as default; staff report states no fiscal impact. | passage · city original |
| 2023-02-15 | Norco | Western Community Energy | Joining | no fiscal impact | Norco approves the WCE termination agreement on consent. | passage · city original |
| 2023-01-25 | Eastvale | Western Community Energy | Joining | no fiscal impact | Eastvale approves the WCE termination agreement; staff state no fiscal impact. | passage · city original |
| 2023-01-24 | Pico Rivera | Pico Rivera Innovative Municipal Energy (PRIME) | Study / start-up | $678,776 a year · city pays · actual / audited | Pico Rivera's PRIME program paid California Choice Energy Authority $678,776 for administration and energy procurement services in the fiscal year ended June 30, 2022. | passage · city original |
| 2023-01-24 | Hemet | Western Community Energy | Joining | no fiscal impact | Hemet adopts Resolution 2023-019 terminating the WCE JPA; the agreement says no member agency must provide additional funding. | passage · city original |
| 2023-01-18 | Wildomar | Western Community Energy | Joining | no fiscal impact | Wildomar approves the WCE JPA Termination Agreement; staff report says executing it costs the General Fund nothing. | passage · city original |
| 2022-11-09 | Solana Beach | Solana Energy Alliance | Study / start-up | $1,668.50 city pays · actual / audited | Solana Beach paid Tosdal APC $1,668.50 for July 2022 professional services charged to the Solana Energy Alliance fund, by check dated 10/13/2022. | passage · city original |
| 2022-11-09 | Solana Beach | Solana Energy Alliance | Study / start-up | $1,090.00 city pays · actual / audited | City paid Tosdal APC $1,090 for February 2022 professional services charged to the Solana Energy Alliance fund, by check dated 10/13/2022. | passage · city original |
| 2022-11-09 | Solana Beach | Solana Energy Alliance | Study / start-up | $335.70 city pays · actual / audited | City check register shows a $335.70 payment to Lance, Soll & Lunghard for the Solana Energy Alliance's share of the FY22 audit, paid October 2022. | passage · city original |
| 2022-11-02 | Monrovia | Clean Power Alliance | Study / start-up | $10,000 city pays | CPA Resolution 22-09-039 (in Santa Paula's packet): Hermosa Beach, Monrovia and Santa Paula each paid a $10,000 study fee, counted as their share of CPA planning costs. | passage · city original |
| 2022-11-02 | Hermosa Beach | Clean Power Alliance | Study / start-up | $10,000 city pays | CPA Resolution 22-09-039 (in Santa Paula's packet): Hermosa Beach, Monrovia and Santa Paula each paid a $10,000 study fee, counted as their share of CPA planning costs. | passage · city original |
| 2022-10-26 | Colfax | Pioneer Community Energy | Joining | no fiscal impact | Colfax, a Pioneer founding member, considers admitting Grass Valley and Nevada City; no direct fiscal impact. | passage · city original |
| 2022-10-26 | Nevada City | Pioneer Community Energy | Joining | no fiscal impact | Nevada City approves joining Pioneer (Resolution 2022-64, ordinance first reading); no risk to the general fund. | passage · city original |
| 2022-10-11 | Grass Valley | Pioneer Community Energy | Joining | no fiscal impact | Grass Valley joins Pioneer (Resolution 2022-77, Ordinance 819 first reading); staff: study cost capped at $15,000 and no risk to the general fund. | passage · city original |
| 2022-09-27 | Novato | MCE | Study / start-up | $2,400 city pays · approved / budgeted | Council set a not-to-exceed $2,400 legal fee for the City Attorney to research deed restrictions on Ammo Hill before exploring a solar farm with MCE; one-time, approved September 2022. | passage · city original |
| 2022-09-13 | Stockton | Ava Community Energy | Study / start-up | $1.35 million city pays · estimate / proposal | Estimated basic startup costs for a proposed Stockton CCA, from the January 2021 feasibility analysis, incurred before operations begin; the city would typically pay them directly. | passage · city original |
| 2022-09-13 | Stockton | Ava Community Energy | Joining | no fiscal impact | Stockton joins EBCE (now Ava Community Energy); staff: no joining fee and no fiscal impact on the general fund. | passage · city original |
| 2022-08-24 | Solana Beach | Solana Energy Alliance | Study / start-up | $4,255.50 city pays · actual / audited | City check register shows a payment of $4,255.50 to Tosdal APC for May professional services for Solana Energy Alliance, paid 07/29/2022. | passage · city original |
| 2022-08-24 | Solana Beach | Solana Energy Alliance | Study / start-up | $709.50 city pays · actual / audited | City check register shows a $709.50 payment to Tosdal APC for June professional services for Solana Energy Alliance, paid 07/21/2022. | passage · city original |
| 2022-08-10 | Nevada City | Pioneer Community Energy | Study / start-up | $15,000 city pays | Nevada City pays $15,000, half of Pioneer's implementation study; Pioneer pays the rest. | passage · city original |
| 2022-08-03 | Santa Paula | Clean Power Alliance | Study / start-up | $10,000 city pays | Santa Paula pays CPA's $10,000 Applicant Impact Study fee from ARPA funds (Resolution 7416); staff: no other direct General Fund impact. | passage · city original |
| 2022-07-05 | Fullerton | 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 |
| 2022-06-28 | Vista | Clean Energy Alliance | Study / start-up | $50,000 city pays · estimate / proposal | If only Vista joins this year, its estimated cost to join Clean Energy Alliance would not exceed $50,000 for updating the Implementation Plan; CEA would reimburse start-up costs after three years. | passage · city original |
| 2022-06-28 | Vista | Clean Energy Alliance | Joining | $17,000 city pays · estimate / proposal | Vista's estimated cost to join Clean Energy Alliance in August 2022 is about $17,000 if Oceanside and San Clemente also join; otherwise up to $50,000. | passage · city original |
| 2022-06-21 | Cupertino | Silicon Valley Clean Energy | Study / start-up | $450,000 city pays · approved / budgeted | Council authorized the City Manager to remit up to $450,000, previously budgeted, to the Silicon Valley Clean Energy Authority for its initial startup costs, in December 2015. | passage · city original |
| 2022-06-21 | Cupertino | Silicon Valley Clean Energy | Study / start-up | $100,000 city pays · estimate / proposal | Recommended increase of $100,000 to Cupertino's FY 2015-16 Sustainability special project budget for contingency tied to joining the Silicon Valley Clean Energy Authority JPA. | passage · city original |
| 2022-06-21 | San Clemente | Clean Energy Alliance | Study / start-up | $45,000 city pays · estimate / proposal | Option to raise San Clemente's MRW & Associates contract to $45,000 (a $40,000 increase from the General Fund) for Phases II and III of the CCE feasibility study. | passage · city original |
| 2022-06-21 | San Clemente | Clean Energy Alliance | Study / start-up | $40,000 city pays · estimate / proposal | Option to increase the MRW & Associates contract by $40,000 for Phases II and III of the Community Choice Energy feasibility study, paid from San Clemente's General Fund. | passage · city original |
| 2022-06-21 | San Clemente | Clean Energy Alliance | Study / start-up | $15,000 city pays · estimate / proposal | Proposed amendment raises San Clemente's MRW & Associates feasibility study contract from $5,000 to $15,000 to fund Phase II CCE review, paid from the General Fund. | passage · city original |
| 2022-06-21 | San Clemente | Clean Energy Alliance | Study / start-up | $10,000 city pays · estimate / proposal | San Clemente would pay consultant MRW & Associates an extra $10,000 for Phase II of the CCE feasibility study, funded from General Fund unassigned fund balance; staff-recommended option awaiting Council approval. | passage · city original |
| 2022-06-21 | San Clemente | Clean Energy Alliance | Study / start-up | $6,000 city pays · approved / budgeted | San Clemente has $6,000 already budgeted in its general fund account to pay its one-third share of updating the Clean Energy Alliance Implementation Plan. | passage · city original |
| 2022-06-21 | San Clemente | Clean Energy Alliance | Study / start-up | $5,000 city pays · approved / budgeted | San Clemente's existing consultant contract with MRW & Associates for Phase I of the Community Choice Energy feasibility study is $5,000, paid from the General Fund; amendments would add more. | passage · city original |
| 2022-06-08 | Escondido | Clean Energy Alliance | Study / start-up | $550,000 city saves · estimate / proposal | Escondido's Planning budget cut by $550,000 for FY2022/23, of which $50,000 is a clean energy study no longer needed after joining Clean Energy Alliance; $500,000 is reclassified consultant costs. | passage · city original |
| 2022-06-08 | Escondido | Clean Energy Alliance | Study / start-up | $50,000 city saves · estimate / proposal | Escondido removed a $50,000 clean energy study from the FY2022/23 Planning budget because the city joined the Clean Energy Alliance, saving that amount. | passage · city original |
| 2022-06-07 | San Jose | San José Clean Energy | Joining | $600,000 a year · city pays · approved / budgeted | Council authorized San José's Community Energy Department to continue annual California Community Choice Association membership for FY 2022-2023, costing up to $600,000. | passage · city original |
| 2022-05-03 | Vista | San Diego Community Power | Study / start-up | $18 million city pays · estimate / proposal | Feasibility study estimates $18 million in working capital and collateral to start a VSME Partner JPA CCA, alongside $600,000 pre-launch costs; a projection, not an approved payment. | passage · city original |
| 2022-05-03 | Vista | San Diego Community Power | Study / start-up | $600,000 city saves · estimate / proposal | Feasibility study estimates Vista and partner cities could cut pre-launch costs by up to $600,000 by joining San Diego Community Power instead of forming their own JPA. | passage · city original |
| 2022-05-03 | Vista | San Diego Community Power | Study / start-up | $147,000 city pays · estimate / proposal | Estimated CPUC bond commitment of $147,000 that Escondido, San Marcos and Vista would avoid by joining San Diego Community Power instead of forming their own JPA. | passage · city original |
| 2022-05-03 | Vista | Clean Energy Alliance | Joining | $50,000 city pays · estimate / proposal | Vista's estimated one-time cost to join Clean Energy Alliance, covering its Implementation Plan update, would not exceed $50,000; about $17,000 if Oceanside and San Clemente also join. CEA would reimburse after three years. | passage · city original |
| 2022-05-03 | Vista | Clean Energy Alliance | Study / start-up | $17,000 city pays · estimate / proposal | Vista's estimated cost to join Clean Energy Alliance (updating the Implementation Plan) would be about $17,000 if Oceanside and San Clemente also join; CEA would reimburse after three years. | passage · city original |
| 2022-04-19 | Orinda | Study / start-up | $15,000 city pays · estimate / proposal | Contra Costa County proposed that participating jurisdictions share a CCA technical study costing $75,000-$150,000; each of ten jurisdictions would pay an estimated $7,500 to $15,000. | passage · city original | |
| 2022-04-19 | Orinda | Study / start-up | $10,000 city pays · estimate / proposal | Contra Costa County asked Orinda in 2016 to authorize up to $10,000 to participate in a technical study of Community Choice Energy; request was under consideration. | passage · city original | |
| 2022-04-19 | Orinda | Study / start-up | $7,500 city pays · estimate / proposal | Estimated low-end share the city would pay for a county-led CCA technical study if the County and nine cities split the cost. | passage · city original | |
| 2022-03-23 | Solana Beach | Solana Energy Alliance | Study / start-up | $1,599.80 a month · city pays · actual / audited | Warrant register total of payments charged to the Solana Energy Alliance fund (audit share, CCA consulting, legal services for January), paid by the city around February-March 2022. | passage · city original |
| 2022-03-23 | Solana Beach | Solana Energy Alliance | Study / start-up | $300.00 city pays · actual / audited | City paid Bayshore Consulting Group $300 for January CCA professional services, charged to the Solana Energy Alliance fund, per the February 2022 check register. | passage · city original |
| 2022-03-22 | Grass Valley | Pioneer Community Energy | Study / start-up | $15,000 city pays | Grass Valley's share of Pioneer's implementation study: $15,000; Pioneer pays the other $15,000. | passage · city original |
| 2022-02-01 | Huntington Beach | 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 |
| 2022-01-25 | Hermosa Beach | Clean Power Alliance | Study / start-up | $136,147 to date · city pays more · estimate / proposal | Estimated total additional procurement cost to the city's municipal accounts from switching to community choice aggregation electricity, summed across the 2014 to 2044 climate plan timeline. | passage · city original |
| 2022-01-25 | Hermosa Beach | Clean Power Alliance | Study / start-up | $90,024 over several years · city pays more · estimate / proposal | Estimated additional procurement cost of CCA electricity for Hermosa Beach municipal accounts, $90,024 over 2021 to 2044 within a $136,147 total, in a climate action plan cost table. | passage · city original |
| 2022-01-25 | Hermosa Beach | Lancaster Energy | Study / start-up | $77,000 city pays · estimate / proposal | Staff recommends Hermosa Beach transfer $77,000 to a new account to pay Lancaster to prepare a CCA implementation plan and feasibility study, proposed November 2015. | passage · city original |
| 2022-01-25 | Hermosa Beach | Clean Power Alliance | Study / start-up | $18,309 a year · city pays more · estimate / proposal | Estimated additional electricity procurement cost for the city's municipal carbon neutral plan via Community Choice Aggregation, about $18,309 in the second year column (2015), in a table covering 2014 onward. | passage · city original |
| 2022-01-12 | Solana Beach | Solana Energy Alliance | Study / start-up | $4,636.47 city pays · actual / audited | Warrant register total of payments charged to the Solana Energy Alliance fund, including SDG&E, audit, consulting and legal fees, paid in the period covered by the register. | passage · city original |
| 2022-01-12 | Solana Beach | Solana Energy Alliance | Study / start-up | $921.00 city pays · actual / audited | City paid Tosdal APC $921 for October professional services for Solana Energy Alliance, listed in the city's warrant register. | passage · city original |
| 2022-01-12 | Solana Beach | Solana Energy Alliance | Study / start-up | $658.20 city pays · actual / audited | Solana Beach's check register shows a $658.20 payment to Lance, Soll & Lunghard for FY21 audit services charged to the Solana Energy Alliance fund. | passage · city original |
| 2022-01-10 | Pomona | Pomona Choice Energy | Study / start-up | $47,250 city pays · approved / budgeted | Pomona City Council approved $47,250 from the General Fund in October 2018 to complete an implementation plan for the city's CCA. | passage · city original |
Costs of leaving or a failed CCA
| Date | City | CCA | Kind | Figure | What it is | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-02-17 | Huntington Beach | Orange County Power Authority | Exit / failure | $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 | Huntington Beach | Orange County Power Authority | Exit / failure | $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 |
| 2026-01-28 | Solana Beach | Solana Energy Alliance | Exit / failure | $579 city pays · actual / audited | Solana Energy Alliance, the city's CCA fund, had $579 in costs and no revenue in FY 2025 before being closed out, reducing the city's net position by $579. | passage · city original |
| 2025-07-08 | Lakeport | Sonoma Clean Power | Exit / failure | will generally exceed $40 million for a region the size of Lake County | SCP study: liability for later withdrawing would generally exceed $40 million for a region the size of Lake County. | passage · city original |
| 2025-01-27 | Pacifica | WestLight Energy | Exit / failure | $493,261 city pays · estimate / proposal | Under the Peninsula Clean Energy solar PPA for the Pacifica Civic Center, the city's termination payment would be $493,261 if terminated in contract year 4. | passage · city original |
| 2025-01-27 | Pacifica | WestLight Energy | Exit / failure | $468,918 city pays · estimate / proposal | Termination payment Pacifica would owe under the Civic Center solar PPA with Peninsula Clean Energy if it ended the agreement in contract year 5. | passage · city original |
| 2025-01-27 | Pacifica | WestLight Energy | Exit / failure | $444,621 city pays · estimate / proposal | Under the proposed Peninsula Clean Energy solar PPA for Pacifica's Civic Center, the termination payment the city would owe if it ended the agreement in Contract Year 6 is $444,621. | passage · city original |
| 2025-01-27 | Pacifica | WestLight Energy | Exit / failure | $420,374 city pays · estimate / proposal | Under the proposed Peninsula Clean Energy solar PPA for the Pacifica Civic Center, the termination payment the city would owe if it ended the agreement in contract year 7 is $420,374. | passage · city original |
| 2025-01-27 | Pacifica | WestLight Energy | Exit / failure | $372,031 city pays · estimate / proposal | Termination payment the City would owe under the Peninsula Clean Energy solar PPA for the Civic Center if it terminated in Contract Year 9. | passage · city original |
| 2025-01-27 | Pacifica | WestLight Energy | Exit / failure | $323,901 city pays · estimate / proposal | Termination payment the city would owe under the Peninsula Clean Energy solar PPA for the Civic Center if it terminates in Contract Year 11. | passage · city original |
| 2025-01-27 | Pacifica | WestLight Energy | Exit / failure | $299,920 city pays · estimate / proposal | Termination payment the city would owe under the Peninsula Clean Energy solar PPA for the Civic Center if it ends the agreement in Contract Year 12. | passage · city original |
| 2025-01-27 | Pacifica | WestLight Energy | Exit / failure | $275,997 city pays · estimate / proposal | Termination payment Pacifica would owe if it ended the Peninsula Clean Energy solar PPA for the Civic Center in contract year 13. | passage · city original |
| 2025-01-27 | Pacifica | WestLight Energy | Exit / failure | $180,924 city pays · estimate / proposal | Termination payment the city would owe if it ended the Peninsula Clean Energy solar PPA for the Civic Center in contract year 17, per the schedule. | passage · city original |
| 2024-09-17 | Huntington Beach | Orange County Power Authority | Exit / failure | 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 | Huntington Beach | Orange County Power Authority | Exit / failure | $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 |
| 2023-05-16 | Fullerton | Orange County Power Authority | Exit / failure | $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 | Fullerton | Orange County Power Authority | Exit / failure | $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 | Fullerton | Orange County Power Authority | Exit / failure | $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 |
| 2023-01-18 | Wildomar | Western Community Energy | Exit / failure | 19.25 city pays | Final Marshack Hays invoice 14319, WCE work ending Aug 31, 2022; Hemet and Wildomar each paid 19.25. | passage · city original |
| 2022-11-08 | Hemet | Western Community Energy | Exit / failure | 19.25 city pays | Final Marshack Hays invoice 14319, WCE work ending Aug 31, 2022; Hemet and Wildomar each paid 19.25. | passage · city original |
| 2022-09-14 | Wildomar | Western Community Energy | Exit / failure | Total : 823.44 city pays | Wildomar voucher (Aug 4, 2022) to Marshack Hays, invoices 13988 and 14105 (466.03 + 357.41), WCE work through Apr 30 and May 31, 2022. | passage · city original |
| 2022-09-14 | Wildomar | Western Community Energy | Exit / failure | 164.75 city pays | Wildomar voucher (Aug 2022) to Marshack Hays, invoice 14242, WCE work through July 31, 2022. | passage · city original |
| 2022-09-14 | Wildomar | Western Community Energy | Exit / failure | 77.00 city pays | Wildomar voucher (Aug 2022) to Marshack Hays, invoice 14174, WCE work through June 30, 2022. | passage · city original |
| 2022-09-13 | Hemet | Western Community Energy | Exit / failure | Total : 1,065.19 city pays | Hemet voucher (Aug 25, 2022) to Marshack Hays, invoices 13988, 14105, 14174 and 14242, WCE work Apr 30 to Jul 31, 2022. | passage · city original |
| 2022-08-17 | Baldwin Park | Baldwin Park Resident Owned Utility District (BPROUD) | Exit / failure | $ (289,419) city pays | Status report: Baldwin Park's own wind-down professional services (BBK, Cordoba, plus taxes and printing) now $289,419. | passage · city original |
| 2022-07-27 | Eastvale | Western Community Energy | Exit / failure | 1,280.42 city pays | Payment to Marshack Hays, invoice 13890, WCE bankruptcy work for March 2022; Wildomar, Eastvale and Hemet each paid 1,280.42. | passage · city original |
| 2022-06-14 | Hemet | Western Community Energy | Exit / failure | 1,280.42 city pays | Payment to Marshack Hays, invoice 13890, WCE bankruptcy work for March 2022; Wildomar, Eastvale and Hemet each paid 1,280.42. | passage · city original |
| 2022-06-08 | Wildomar | Western Community Energy | Exit / failure | 1,280.42 city pays | Payment to Marshack Hays, invoice 13890, WCE bankruptcy work for March 2022; Wildomar, Eastvale and Hemet each paid 1,280.42. | passage · city original |
| 2022-04-27 | Eastvale | Western Community Energy | Exit / failure | 250.41 city pays | Eastvale warrant (Mar 9, 2022) to Marshack Hays, invoice 13798, WCE work for February 2022. | passage · city original |
| 2022-04-12 | Hemet | Western Community Energy | Exit / failure | Total : 605.80 city pays | Hemet voucher (Feb 24, 2022) to Marshack Hays, invoices 13633 and 13717 (287.00 + 318.80). | passage · city original |
| 2022-03-29 | San Jose | San José Clean Energy | Exit / failure | $6.8 million city pays · actual / audited | The City paid a $6.8 million CPUC citation for San José Clean Energy's failure to procure enough Resource Adequacy capacity for 2019. | passage · city original |
| 2022-03-29 | San Jose | San José Clean Energy | Exit / failure | $1.1 million city pays · actual / audited | The City paid a $1.1 million CPUC citation for San José Clean Energy's failure to procure enough resource adequacy for the 2020 year-ahead requirement. | passage · city original |
| 2022-03-29 | San Jose | San José Clean Energy | Exit / failure | $758,000 city pays · actual / audited | The City of San José paid a CPUC citation of $758,000 for San José Clean Energy's failure to procure enough month-ahead resource adequacy for 2021. | passage · city original |
| 2022-03-23 | Eastvale | Western Community Energy | Exit / failure | 605.80 city pays | Eastvale warrants (Feb 9 and 23, 2022) to Marshack Hays: reissued invoice 13633 (287.00) and invoice 13717 (318.80), vendor total 605.80. | passage · city original |
| 2022-03-16 | Baldwin Park | Baldwin Park Resident Owned Utility District (BPROUD) | Exit / failure | $2.9M city saves · actual / audited | While winding down BPROUD and returning customers to SCE, CalChoice's liquidation or assignment of energy supply contracts produced a net $2.9M benefit, higher than expected, offsetting exit losses. | passage · city original |
| 2022-03-16 | Baldwin Park | Baldwin Park Resident Owned Utility District (BPROUD) | Exit / failure | $1.9M to date · city pays · estimate / proposal | Upper end of the forecast range of losses to Baldwin Park if it de-certified its BPROUD CCA by February 2022, estimated before the final results. | passage · city original |
| 2022-03-16 | Baldwin Park | Baldwin Park Resident Owned Utility District (BPROUD) | Exit / failure | $1.1M city pays · estimate / proposal | Earlier forecast of the City's losses, $1.1M at the low end of a $1.1M-$1.9M range, if it decertified BPROUD by February 2022. | passage · city original |
| 2022-03-16 | Baldwin Park | Baldwin Park Resident Owned Utility District (BPROUD) | Exit / failure | $344,697 city pays | Estimated professional and legal services for the BPROUD wind-down: $344,697. | passage · city original |
| 2022-03-16 | Baldwin Park | Baldwin Park Resident Owned Utility District (BPROUD) | Exit / failure | $(200,000) city pays | Baldwin Park's own professional services for the wind-down budgeted at $200,000 in March 2022 (raised to $289,419 in August). | passage · city original |
| 2022-03-16 | Baldwin Park | Baldwin Park Resident Owned Utility District (BPROUD) | Exit / failure | $145K city pays | CalChoice wind-down services budgeted at $145K, down from $217K (original estimate $302,083 through August). | passage · city original |
| 2022-03-16 | Baldwin Park | Baldwin Park Resident Owned Utility District (BPROUD) | Exit / failure | $107K city pays | BPROUD's resource-adequacy obligations were assumed by the City of Lancaster for a cost of $107K. | passage · city original |
| 2022-03-16 | Baldwin Park | Baldwin Park Resident Owned Utility District (BPROUD) | Exit / failure | Total $62,962 city pays | Amended CalChoice agreement: Calpine data and billing services February–May 2022 total $62,962, then a $10,000 monthly minimum. | passage · city original |
| 2022-03-16 | Baldwin Park | Baldwin Park Resident Owned Utility District (BPROUD) | Exit / failure | $55,000 a month · city pays · estimate / proposal | City's monthly administrative services fee to CalChoice for BPROUD was about $55,000, to be reduced to $36,000 monthly through June 2022 during decertification. | passage · city original |
| 2022-03-16 | Baldwin Park | Baldwin Park Resident Owned Utility District (BPROUD) | Exit / failure | roughly from $55,000 monthly to $36,000 monthly city pays | Decertification report: CalChoice's monthly administrative fee cut from about $55,000 to $36,000, ending June 2022. | passage · city original |
| 2022-03-16 | Baldwin Park | Baldwin Park Resident Owned Utility District (BPROUD) | Exit / failure | $ 10,000 not to exceed city pays | Amended CalChoice agreement: legal costs not to exceed $10,000. | passage · city original |
| 2022-03-16 | Baldwin Park | Baldwin Park Resident Owned Utility District (BPROUD) | Exit / failure | $8,375 city pays | SCE re-entry fees for returning BPROUD's customers to SCE: $8,375 (the summary report rounds it to $8K). | passage · city original |
| 2022-03-16 | Baldwin Park | Baldwin Park Resident Owned Utility District (BPROUD) | Exit / failure | $8K city pays · actual / audited | SCE charged an $8K re-entry fee for returning BPROUD customers to SCE after Baldwin Park discontinued its CCA in 2022, far lower than expected. | passage · city original |
| 2022-03-16 | Baldwin Park | Baldwin Park Resident Owned Utility District (BPROUD) | Exit / failure | $ 2,592.50 city pays | Amended CalChoice agreement: Bayshore line in the wind-down budget. | passage · city original |
| 2022-03-16 | Baldwin Park | Baldwin Park Resident Owned Utility District (BPROUD) | Exit / failure | $ 2,500.00 city pays | Amended CalChoice agreement: Maher line in the wind-down budget. | passage · city original |
| 2022-03-16 | Baldwin Park | Western Community Energy | Exit / failure | in the millions | Baldwin Park staff on SCE fees for returning customers: the only previous example, Western Community Energy, ran 'in the millions' (no figure). | passage · city original |
| 2022-03-16 | Baldwin Park | Baldwin Park Resident Owned Utility District (BPROUD) | Exit / failure | March 2022 - $ 13,562.00 April 2022 - $ 8,950.00 May 2022 - $ 4,610.00 June 2022 - $ 4,610.00 city pays | Amended CalChoice agreement: CalChoice fixed fee for March–June 2022. | passage · city original |
| 2022-03-09 | Wildomar | Western Community Energy | Exit / failure | 318.00 city pays | Wildomar voucher (Feb 10, 2022) to Marshack Hays, invoice 13717, WCE work through Jan 31, 2022. | passage · city original |
| 2022-03-08 | Hemet | Western Community Energy | Exit / failure | 3,588.50 city pays | Hemet voucher (Feb 10, 2022): a second payment to Marshack Hays on invoice 13176. | passage · city original |
| 2022-02-23 | Eastvale | Western Community Energy | Exit / failure | 1,722.00 city pays | Eastvale warrant (Jan 26, 2022) to Marshack Hays, invoice 13633, WCE bankruptcy work through Dec 31, 2021. | passage · city original |
| 2022-02-09 | Wildomar | Western Community Energy | Exit / failure | Total : 3,375.00 city pays | Wildomar voucher (Jan 20, 2022) to Marshack Hays, invoices 13176 and 13633 (3,088.00 + 287.00), for Western Community Energy work. | passage · city original |
| 2022-02-08 | Hemet | Western Community Energy | Exit / failure | 19,028.50 city pays | Hemet voucher (Dec 30, 2021) to Marshack Hays, invoice 13176, charged to Hemet's Legal Services internal service fund 691. | passage · city original |
| 2022-01-26 | Eastvale | Western Community Energy | Exit / failure | 3,088.00 city pays | Eastvale warrant (Dec 8, 2021) to bankruptcy counsel Marshack Hays, invoice 13176, for Western Community Energy work through Oct 31, 2021. | passage · city original |