What's the Matter with California's Electricity System? with Loretta Lynch

What's the Matter with California's Electricity System? with Loretta Lynch

Author: KSQD 90.7 FM in Santa Cruz & KSQD.org June 8, 2025 Duration: 54:55

Everyone is angry with California’s private utilities.  Rates keep rising, the utilities lack accountability and they are running roughshod over small-scale renewable energy.  Why make your customers so mad? Is that anger justified? And what are the utilities planning for the future?  Join SN! host Ronnie Lipschutz for a conversation with Loretta Lynch. Lynch was President of the California Public Utilities Commission from 2000 through 2002 and continued as a CPUC Commissioner until January 2005.  Since then, she has been a strident advocate for the protection of ratepayers and against corruption in the utility industry, a role in which she continues today.


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