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After 111 years, SF is finally moving to oust PG&E and create a public power system

Tim Redmond - March 3, 2024

Cheap, reliable, green energy is only a few steps away—but the private utility is trying its best to delay the process and protect its illegal monopoly

Environment

Public power for all of Northern California? After fires, the framework is in place

Tim Redmond - September 16, 2023

Report to LAFCO cites a little-known state agency that has the authority to seize PG&E's assets and let every community decide its energy future.

City Hall

After more than a century, PG&E is finally on the ropes in San Francisco

Tim Redmond - August 1, 2021

The city's moving to establish a public-power system—but we should also talk about accountability for the politicians and media that enabled an illegal monopoly for so long.

The Agenda

SF has a new tech plan — but it ignores the need for public broadband

Tim Redmond - April 4, 2021

Plus: Confronting attacks on Asian seniors and a modest, but important, police reform ... That's The Agenda for April 4-11

News + Politics

SFPUC could be accepting PG&E’s nuclear energy

Tim Redmond - June 23, 2020

The San Francisco Public Utilities Commission is facing an unusual choice: PG&E wants to give the city’s clean-power agency $1.4 million worth of free...

News + Politics

‘In the name of climate sanity’

Tim Redmond - July 22, 2019

The supes listened for more than two and a half hours to testimony and expert reports on the city’s role in climate change –...

News + Politics

Finally, a city study says public power makes perfect sense

Tim Redmond - May 16, 2019

It’s hard to believe, after I’ve spent more than three decades talking about the advantages of public power in San Francisco, that City Hall...

News + Politics

SF is ready for public power

Tim Redmond - January 28, 2019

The California Public Utilities Commission today gave PG&E access to credit markets in advance of an expected bankruptcy filing tomorrow – but the last-minute...

News + Politics

Building momentum and the Women’s March

Tim Redmond - January 21, 2019

The New York Times spent a lot of time talking about the “controversy” around this weekend’s Women’s March. The march was “smaller;”maybe there’s a “waning...

News + Politics

SF was totally unprepared for the air-quality crisis

Tim Redmond - November 23, 2018

By the end of this week, the rain finally arrived, the Camp Fire was largely contained, and the Bay Area could take a deep...

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After 111 years, SF is finally moving to oust PG&E and create a public power system

Public power for all of Northern California? After fires, the framework is in place

After more than a century, PG&E is finally on the ropes in San Francisco

SF has a new tech plan — but it ignores the need for public broadband

SFPUC could be accepting PG&E’s nuclear energy

‘In the name of climate sanity’

Finally, a city study says public power makes perfect sense

SF is ready for public power

Building momentum and the Women’s March

SF was totally unprepared for the air-quality crisis

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