Power Choice (6/17/13)

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🗓️ 24 June 2013

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Rising interest in clean power is presenting electric monopolies with competition for the first time. Community choice aggregation (CCA) gives towns and cities the opportunity to get in on the energy market and decide where their energy will come from. More than a thousand communities across the country are taking electric power into their own hands. Supporters say that is a great way for communities to get greener electricity. San Francisco’s proposed community power option has a goal of 100% renewables and may be provided by a unit of Shell Oil. That juice could cost up to 40 percent more than the local monopoly, PG&E. Skeptics are wary of such cost premiums and say local power may not be as green as people think. A conversation with four experts on local and clean power nationally and in the San Francisco Bay Area. Kim Malcolm, Director, CleanPowerSF Shawn Marshall, Mill Valley Council Member; Executive Director, Local Energy Aggregation Network Marcie Milner, Senior Regulatory Manager, Shell Energy North America Hunter Stern, Business Manager, Brotherhood of Electrical Workers This program was recorded in front of a live audience at The Commonwealth Club of California on June 17, 2013 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	There once was a woman who lived in a shoe. A size too snug, but what could she do?
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0:11.0	she got her score into much better shape and relocated to a box fresh new place, with room to grow and a mortgage to suit.
0:18.0	Now, she lives in a spacious four-bedroom cowboy boots. Better your
0:23.7	Experian credit score to help get mortgage ready. Experian. Better your score. Better your story.
0:30.1	How will we power our future? Can we create a healthy and clean economy? Climate One at the
0:36.1	Commonwealth Club is at the forefront of the global debate about energy,
0:39.4	economy, and the environment.
0:41.5	Bringing together the brightest and most provocative leaders of our time, Climate One is
0:46.0	the place where big ideas get heard.
0:48.3	With thoughtful and insightful discussions on policy, business, science, and culture,
0:52.7	Climate One founder Greg Dalton gets to the heart of the matter.
0:56.3	It's our future. It's time to come together.
0:59.4	Welcome to Climate One at the Commonwealth Club,
1:01.9	a conversation about America's energy, economy, and environment.
1:05.3	To understand any of them, you have to understand them all.
1:07.5	I'm Greg Dalton.
1:08.7	Californians have many choices as consumers, but they don't
1:11.5	have a choice of where they buy their electricity. Electric monopolies owned by investors or in some
1:16.4	cases local government deliver the juice to our homes and offices. Most people don't think about it
1:21.9	except when they get their bill or when the power goes out. Climate disruption is changing that.
1:27.0	Concern about carbon pollution is causing people to pay a lot more attention to what powers
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