Lege Trend. Grid Regionalization Bill. What you need to know.

State: California 

The grid regionalization bill: Assembly Bill 813 (CA | 2018) 

What Californias’s grid regionalization bill does: 

  • broader electricity system for trading renewable energy
  • source renewable energy from a wider geographical swath
  • smoothing out the intermittency
  •  potentially saving hundreds of millions of dollars

Opponents say:

  • California loses control over the cleanliness of the energy mix
  • Bolster out of state energy plant growth
  • Moves energy jobs out of California to the new energy plants

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