cali power crisis
The California Power Problem There are many factors that caused the California power crisis. Factors such as California not building enough power plants, the weather, other states not selling electricity to California, and high natural gas prices all contributed to the California power crisis (SF Gate Staff, par 1). In this research paper, I will concentrate on laws and decisions of the state that caused the California power crisis. ... The state told the utility companies to sell their power generating plants private companies (Deregulating, par 1). They were required to transfer their control of transmission lines and power grids to the private nonprofit companies but they retained control and ownership of the distribution system (Deregulating, par 1). Another reason why the California Assembly decided to deregulate the large $23 billion energy companies such as Pacific Gas & Electric, Southern California Edison and San Diego Electric was because they were planning on setting up a large plan of environment friendly nuclear power plants (SF Gate Staff, par 1). Before the deregulation order by the California Assembly, the prices of the power were decided by power generating plants (Deregulating, par 2). ... After the deregulation, the California Power Exchange, a private nonprofit organization, controlled the price of power (Deregulating, par 2).