leading the fight for Community Choice Aggregation access to Energy Efficiency funds

Community Choice is
Energy Democracy

California's "Community Choice" law, passed in 2002, allows any city, county, or group of cities & counties to choose alternative electricity providers - and run their own energy efficiency programs.

marin clean energy

• MarinEnergyAuthority.org
• MarinCleanEnergy.info
• WEM's TALKING POINTS

marin clean energy

• Video: Barbara George Comments on CPUC's rebuke of PG&E
• Big Week for Energy Efficiency & Community Choice at CPUC
• Video: PG&E tries to buy Novato!
• PG&E letters to Novato & Marin
• PG&E's misuse of Energy Efficiency money to fight Marin Clean Energy
• Birth of local clean energy
• Resolution E4250

about prop 16

• Why WEM Opposes Prop 16
• Download & print the 8-1/2 x 11 window sign

Videos of public meetings

• Barbara George Comments
• Ca Public Utilities Commission Rebukes PG&E 
• Energy Democracy Comes to Marin!!!!
• PG&E tries to buy Novato
• Fairfax Approves Marin Clean Energy
• CA Utilities say NO Video of Public Meeting!
• Energy Efficiency in NYC

The Media: articles & reports

The most current articles from newspapers, TV reports, online coverage of WEM's issues

• PUC waited far too long to tell PG&E to back off
• Plugging in a monopoly: PG&E sole contributor & beneficiary of Prop 16
• 'We Are Appalled, Give It Back' PG&E's Executive Bonus scandal
• PG&E's new rates could help Marin green power
• CPUC: PG&E must stop threats to public power agencies

clean energy now

WEM opposed PG&E's request for 2300 MW of new gas fired power plants:
the Judge approved only 800-1100 MW, telling them to use renewables instead of fossil fuel.

climate change

• Video Reports: Copenhagen 2009
• Why Cap-and-Trade?
• Blog from Copenhagen

programs for energy savings

WEM is a public interest participant , advocating for more effective programs to increase energy savings.

WEM proposed an administrative structure for energy efficiency similar to one in Texas that saved 40% more energy per dollar than California's current system -->

Energy Efficiency & Community Choice -->

Power plants are almost all...

...located in low-income, minority communities, causing serious health damage. WEM members in these communities are pushing for construction of clean energy systems with local jobs & economic benefits.

get the facts

Don't fall for the greenwashing

PG$E is missing the state's targets for renewables and efficiency:

• It had 14% renewables in 2003 when the state set a target of 20% by 2010.
• It had 13% renewables in 2008!
• It met only 73% of efficiency goals in 2006 to 2007! Source: CA Public Utilities Comm.)
• PG&E calls dams & nukes green energy

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Women’s Energy Matters

WEM is a network of women & men who approach energy issues from a woman's point of view. WEM celebrates the ways women have used their energy through the ages to work for the public good.

dealing with the mess

Women have long been dealing with the industrial energy system's mess: cleaning up soot in our houses and clothes, nursing family members sickened by pollution &industrial accidents, & coping with personal & societal change.