Energy

CALIFORNIA CREATES PLAN TO HELP UTILITIES STAVE OFF BANKRUPTCY

January 15, 2001  ·  Consumer Watchdog

<p class="source">CBS MORNING NEWS</p> <p>California lawmakers could consider as early as tomorrow a plan to end the power crisis that's gripping the state. It would, in effect, make the state an electricity broker, but critics say taxpayers would pay a heavy price. Randall Pinkston reports.</p>

Officials Wrestle on Calif. Power

January 14, 2001  ·  Consumer Watchdog

<p class="source">Associated Press</p> <p>The California legislature hopes to end the state's energy crisis by considering a plan Tuesday to make California a major electricity broker.</p>

GENERATORS ACTED TO KEEP PRICES HIGHER, STUDIES SHOW

January 14, 2001  ·  Consumer Watchdog

<p class="source">Los Angeles Times</p> <p>Gov. Gray Davis calls them pirates, marauders, gougers and greedy profiteers--those out-of-state generators in the eye of California's electricity storm.</p>

Feds, state and utilities meet to broker electricity deal

January 14, 2001  ·  Consumer Watchdog

<h3>Will STAND for AMs</h3><p class="source">The Associated Press</p> <p>State and federal officials met with representatives of power companies during a seven-hour bi-coastal video conference convened Saturday to help solve the state's ongoing electricity crisis.</p>

DAVIS SAYS STATE WILL BUY POWER FOR RESALE TO UTILITIES

January 14, 2001  ·  Consumer Watchdog

<h3>THE GOVERNOR ANNOUNCES THE PLAN FOR PURCHASES AT REDUCED RATES DURING A LONG CONFERENCE OF TOP OFFICIALS. OTHER PARTICIPANTS ARE LESS OPTIMISTIC.</h3><p class="source">Los Angeles Times</p> <p>With California's major utilities teetering near bankruptcy, Gov. Gray Davis announced a plan Saturday under which the state would buy power at reduced rates and resell it to the battered companies to stabilize California's haywire electricity market.</p>

Investor-owned utilities have history of charging higher rates

January 13, 2001  ·  Consumer Watchdog

<p class="source">Associated Press</p> <p>With utility bills on the rise, a radio station in the Sierra foothills produced a song that struck a chord with angry ratepayers.</p>

Energy deal may be on the horizon

January 13, 2001  ·  Consumer Watchdog

<h3>State would buy electricity cheaply, re-sell it to utilities</h3><p class="source">Sacramento Bee</p> <p>State officials Friday revealed details of a plan for the state to buy wholesale electricity and re-sell it to California utilities at cost</p>

Watchdog Wants California Payment of Utility Regulator’s Legal Bills Stopped

January 12, 2001  ·  Consumer Watchdog

<p class="source">San Jose Mercury News</p> <p>The watchdog group that is trying to oust Henry M. Duque from the Public Utilities Commission asked Gov. Gray Davis on Thursday to stop the PUC from paying his legal bills.</p>

THE POWER CRISIS: THE NEGOTIATIONS

January 12, 2001  ·  Consumer Watchdog

<h3>Seeking Harmony to Quiet California Energy Turmoil</h3><p class="source">The New York Times</p> <p>While Californians readied themselves for yet another day of possible power blackouts, negotiators in Washington continued today to try to hammer out a solution to the state's energy problems.</p>

Peace hits ‘myths’ on energy law

January 12, 2001  ·  Consumer Watchdog

<p class="source">Sacramento Bee</p> <p>Steve Peace, the legislator who led efforts to craft a 1996 bill deregulating California's electricity market, has posted a video on his state Senate Web site that argues he was never a fan of deregulation in the first place.</p>

ELECTRICITY CRISIS IN CALIFORNIA NEARLY CAUSES PARTS OF THE STATE TO GO BLACK AS A WINTER STORM HAS CAUSED MORE PROBLEMS WITH THE SHORTAGE

January 12, 2001  ·  Consumer Watchdog

<p class="source">CBS News - THE EARLY SHOW</p> <p>JON FRANKEL, co-host: The electricity crisis in California, as we mentioned, went to the brink overnight, but the state never went dark. Officials had planned a series of controlled blackouts</p>

Progress, warning in state energy fight

January 11, 2001  ·  Consumer Watchdog

<p class="source">Sacramento Bee</p> <p>Gov. Gray Davis and other officials laid out details Wednesday of their efforts to rein in the state's electricity crisis, even as Pacific Gas and Electric Co. said it was confronting a new emergency</p>