As Alameda County charges forward with a plan to form its own public energy agency to buy and sell greener power to residents and compete with PG&E, environmental advocates are fighting to make sure the state doesn’t block the way.
About 50 activists rallied Thursday outside a Pacific Gas and Electric customer service center in downtown Oakland to protest a bill that the state Senate will take up Monday.
The Assembly has already passed AB 2145, which proponents say protects customers by giving them the choice to stick with their current utility — in most Bay Area cities, that’s PG&E — instead of automatically rolling into a new startup utility formed by Alameda County or other public agencies.