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From CFACT<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

By Ronald Stein<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n

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Over the years, the so-called forward-thinking policymakers in California have achieved questionable results:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

> California\u2019s high cost of electricity<\/a> is already more than 80 percent higher than the national average for residential and commercial, more than 140 percent for commercial, and is projected to go even higher.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

> California imports more electricity than any other US state <\/a> \u2013 more than twice the amount of Virginia, the second-largest importer of electricity. California typically receives between one-fifth and one-third of its electricity supply from outside the state, mostly from out-of-state coal-fired power plants.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

> California now has the second\u2013highest rate of unemployment<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

> California has lagging job growth<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

> California has roughly half of the nation\u2019s homeless population<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The same policymakers who have achieved the above \u201clow\u201d points for the residents of California are the same ones seeking zero-emission targets for the state, while concurrently attempting to shutter its only zero-emission electricity-generating plant!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

California prides itself on being a good environmental steward. However, since 2014, Warren Buffett\u2019s PacifiCorp has sold almost a billion dollars of electricity at wholesale to California,<\/a> mostly from pollution-laden, coal-fired electricity generation sites outside of California. PacifiCorp\u2019s lobbying has successfully introduced corruption into California energy policies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The independent, nonprofit intervenor Californians for Green Nuclear Power\u2019s (CGNP\u2019s) filings link this large volume of PacifiCorp power with post-2012 sales to Southern California Edison (SCE) of \u201cunspecified power.\u201d (Unspecified power is a California-specific legal euphemism created in 2010 that mostly applies to out-of-state, coal-fired power.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Unspecified power from out-of-state, coal-fired power plants has largely replaced the pollution-free power that SCE previously obtained from San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station (SONGS), which was closed at the end of January 2012 instead of being cost-effectively repaired after a mismanaged routine service operation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Californians for Green Nuclear Power<\/a> (CGNP) believes that PacifiCorp supplies most of the unspecified power imported from out-of-state ,coal-fired power plants that SCE currently sells.<\/p>\n\n\n\n