In this article from Lost Coast Outpost’s EcoNews Report, Tom Wheeler, Executive Director of the Environmental Protection Information Center (EPIC), interviews Redwood Coast Energy Authority’s (RCEA) Richard Engel, Director of Power Resources. They discuss RCEA’s renewable energy goals, which include purchasing energy ideally from local sources while keeping the cost competitive with PG&E.
The article highlights the challenges RCEA faces in balancing these goals, state mandates, and competition with other power purchasers across the state. Richard Engel discussed these difficulties and mentioned a new long-term power agreement with a large solar project in Kern County known as Sandrini.
I think if any community choice energy provider in California can set and achieve a goal of generating all of their energy locally in their own service area, I think we’re probably the ones that can do it.
Richard Engel, Director of Power Resources