Traitors. Giving control to Trump is just nuts.
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If I understand correctly, the issue is whether to create a regional energy market with parties from multiple states making rules rather than a California-specific one, as is the case today.
The Pathways Initiative is an effort led by a group of stakeholders from the eleven Western states in the Western Interconnection (Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, New Mexico, Nevada, Oregon, Utah, Washington, and Wyoming)
Sen. Stern and Sen. Becker argue this bill would bring down consumer costs by allowing the state to export excess renewable energy and import cheaper energy from a wider set of western resources.
Given California's present electricity prices relative to every one of those states
the highest in the country after Hawaii, and Hawaii is unusual in that it has to generate a high share of power using oil
I have a hard time seeing how that group could possibly manage to do worse in terms of price than California is today.
EDIT:
https://www.electricchoice.com/electricity-prices-by-state/
EDIT2: I'd also recall a lot of folks criticizing Texas for refusing to connect to the Western Interconnection for a long time, something that Texas had done to avoid being subjected to federal regulation. Texas apparently just agreed to give up their independent grid and connect to the national grid. It sounds like the issue here is California making rules that restrict trade in electricity with other member states, which is going to be at least somewhat analogous to what Texas was doing. I'm kind of inclined to feel that if Texas can manage to tolerate outside parties having influence on their electricity market, so can California.
EDIT3: It also sounds like the legislator is being criticized because he's representing tech companies in California that want cheaper electricity to run datacenters in California. While I think that it'd probably help California to have cheaper electricity for its datacenters, end of the day, it's also not that impractical for companies to have remote datacenters; one could move the datacenter to outside of California and have a California company make use of it, rather than the electricity into California. A much larger concern I'd have is electricity prices for BEVs
there, the high price of electricity in California discourages the transition to BEVs, and we can't just move our BEVs to another state.