South Bay Clean Power

Welcome!

South Bay Clean Power is proud to have started  in 2014 as a grassroots community effort that brought 14 South Bay and Westside cities together to explore their Community Choice Power options. We then secured funding and support from the great County of Los Angeles to bring Community Choice Power to all its 82 eligible cities unincorporated areas.

As you’ll discover on this website, South Bay Clean Power has designed a next generation Community Choice Power Program that reflects our unique region’s significant electric power load and the rapidly changing landscape of a state headed to 100% renewable power.

Our plan allows our cities to deliver on their ambitious local distributed energy goals, economic and workforce development objectives and risk management imperatives by using the best practices of the public power industry.

At the same time it establishes close collaboration with other regional CCAs like LA County’s and Long Beach to leverage economies of scale on power purchases, data management systems and back office services.

If you’re new to the topic of Community Choice Power (or Community Choice Aggregation, it’s legal name) this video is a good place to start.

You can learn more about South Bay Clean Power’s history and efforts HERE.

We published our first of its kind South Bay Clean Power Business Plan in February of 2017 as an open source document and you can read it HERE.

Here’s what people who have reviewed our plan ARE SAYING ABOUT OUT PLAN.

You’ll find our latest news and thoughts ON OUR NEWS page.

We’re also pretty frequent posters on our Facebook page and Twitter Feed.

There’s so much to love about Community Choice Power:

We love that our community actually gets a choice instead of a lifetime of electricity from the mandated, for-profit, investor-owned monopoly utility.

We love that our Community Choice Power program started with individuals in our community who created a grassroots coalition that went all the way from a single tiny beach town to teaching the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors what Community Choice Power is and then convincing them to fund a Countywide feasibility study.

We love that each of our participating cities will each have one of our democratically elected Councilmembers on the Board of Directors of our nonprofit power authority and that they will answer to us in ways no utility executive ever has.

We love that our Community Choice Power program is a nonprofit operation designed to serve our local people and not a corporation’s shareholders and investors.

We love that our Community Choice Power program’s focus on getting us to 100% renewable power with zero emissions is our community’s most powerful tool to fight climate change.

We love that the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) Local 11 and the Los Angeles National Electrical Contractors Association are partnering with South Bay Clean Power to help create an economic and workforce development powerhouse.

We love that no tax dollars are used to run this program and that any funds used to develop and launch the program are paid back from the revenues of the program once it’s up and running.