Paul Fenn in Boulder Colorado

Paul Fenn addresses Clean Energy Action group in Boulder, Colorado bringing his insights on whether Boulder should create a municipal utility. Fenn wrote the nation's first Community Choice Aggregation (CCA) bill, in 1994. CCA allows a community or region to secede from an investor-owned monopoly utility, to join with other towns and cities and purchase wholesale power on the open market. The utility retains control over poles and wires. The city doesn't buy generation plants, so it's not wedded to a particular source of juice or means of distribution. And with the purchasing power of an entire population and the stability of a long-term contract, the city can move toward renewables more affordably.

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