I feel it is never too late to respond, so here goes:
The Orange County Power Authority, aka OCPA, is a scam! Since it began, Lake Forest, Huntington Beach, and the Orange County Board of Supervisors (which is all the unincorporated areas in Orange County) pulled out. Irvine now has only two cities remaining; Buena Park & Fullerton.
This organization is managed by city council members who take advantage of all the extra funds they get by overcharging residents and businesses in the 2nd and 3rd tiers, and give it to organizations of their choosing. It’s a slush fund! For example, OCPA Board members Fred Jung, Tammy Kim, & Kathleen Treseder are sponsoring the Mayor of Fountain Valley’s re-election campaign. They have wined and dined this Mayor, as what I consider to be a bribe to join the OCPA. This is how desperate this organization is to sign up a city, the last in Orange County. Their poor residents and businesses have no idea what they are in for.
But it is more than abuse of ratepayer dollars, (see attached OCPA Check Resister Log), although that in itself is enough, but they are NOT providing cleaner energy than Southern California Edison. Edison still delivers the power and does not have a backup system to handle renewables at the percentage that the OCPA claims. It would be impossible!
To understand more about Community Choice Energy programs, google Jim Phelps, specifically on the OCPA.
