Today the SF Chronicle reported in PG&E initiative on power suppliers on ballot:

"A ballot measure, backed by Pacific Gas and Electric Co., that would limit the ability of California cities to go into the public power business has qualified for the June election, according to the secretary of state.

The measure would force local governments that want to compete with PG&E to win the approval of two-thirds of their voters first. The utility, California's largest, is fighting efforts by San Francisco and Marin County to start buying electricity on behalf of their residents, taking over a role long held by PG&E."

It's game time.  PG&E wants to entrench their monopoly in the California Constitution.  This is the same company that played a key role in derailing the first solar energy revolution back in late 1970s and 1980s when California was the world leader in renewable energy.  Now PG&E is at it again.  They intend to destroy the local clean energy movement that is gaining steam in Marin, San Francisco, and the East Bay.  

PG&E wants to be the Google of the utility industry.  

PG&E seeks to maximize quarterly profits - which means continuing to rely upon large, centralized and mostly dirty power plants - even if means depriving urban centers of the clean energy jobs promised by Obama's renewable energy economy, and failing to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and achieve state mandated renewable energy targets.    

Perhaps, its a divine coincidence  that PG&E sounds out to "Piggy".

Humor aside, this is a moral issue. It is our collective responsibility to mitigate climate change, and we all will need to do something different, including PG&E.  But PG&E does not see it that way.  They want to stifle competition and continue to foist their agenda upon We The People.  Hence the ballot initiative.

To find out how you can plug into the counter campaign, join us for the next meeting of the Local Clean Energy Alliance today (January 14th, 2010) at 6p. The meeting features an organizing session by Eric Wooten, consultant to the Taxpayers to Stop the PG&E Power Grab PAC.

See http://www.localcleanenergy.org/meetings/20100114 for details.