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“We were the first city to join and things were not supposed to go this way,” Fullerton Councilmember Ahmad Zahra said. “I find it egregious that I have to find out this information from the press.”

The Huntington Beach City Council voted to alter its contract with the troubled Orange County Power Authority (OCPA) on Jan. 17.

The Irvine City Council has voted 3-2 to remain part of the troubled Orange County Power Authority (OCPA).

OCPA already provides power to the cities of Fullerton, Buena Park, Irvine and Huntington Beach. It wasn’t set to begin servicing the county until next year. It remains to be seen whether the cities that contract with OCPA will nix their contracts too.

San Diego has been named the ‘greenest’ city in America by WalletHub.

“There was apparently some level of confusion between their dispatchers and our dispatchers,” said Elliot Mainzer, chief executive of the ISO. 

The past week of unrelenting heat has given California a sobering glimpse of the future. We’ve gotten a taste of what a warmer planet feels like — and it’s brutal.

Five Bay Area cities have banned new gas stations in response to the growing threat of climate change. Los Angeles could be next.

The City of Pacifica partnered with Stanford University student consultants to develop an actionable plan focusing on electric vehicle implementation within the city.