This article, just published on April 21, 2025 shows PacifiCorp went from number five lobbyist in 2023 to number three lobbyist in 2024, spending more than $13.4 million dollars for California "general lobbying." "Special interests poured more than half a billion into California lobbying last year" by Jeremiah Kimmelman, Cal Matters. https://calmatters.org/data/2025/04/california-lobbying-spending-2024/ In 2024, PacifiCorp spent far more lobbying than the much larger Pacific Gas & Electric.
Perhaps in response to CGNP's Complaint with the state Attorney General filed on April 28, 2025, https://greennuke.substack.com/p/californias-285-million-warren-buffett PacifiCorp finally admitted to lobbying for CAISO grid regionalization via the bill they have been promoting since fall, 2023, which was recently introduced as California SB 540 (Becker, 2025.)
PacifiCorp has promoted CAISO grid regionalization since 2016, when the U.S. Supreme Court in a unanimous decision styled as Hughes v. Talen Energy confirmed that multistate ISOs or ROs cannot favor an in-state generator. CAISO is currently a single state ISO. This decision gives PacifiCorp a pathway to successfully challenge California SB 846 (Dodd, 2022) which favors Diablo Canyon Power Plant (DCPP) near San Luis Obispo, California. CGNP believes that enactment of CAISO grid regionalization would provide many commercial advantages to PacifiCorp including the needless shutdown of DCPP. Since November, 2014, PacifiCorp has already sold at wholesale almost a billion dollars of mostly coal-fired electricity to California entities.
Fruit and nuts of closing down songs nuclear power plant have come to fruitation and many pols are getting rich at the expense of mostly illegal immigrants who really don't pay electricity bills and the dumb Woke lib people that are still left in California. I guess it's about 40% of people that don't pay their utility bills and get a pass? I'm so glad those Pacific Paliside fires where mostly the Lib Californians lived and thought they were immune from DEI and woke choices have gotten burned? It ought to be pretty scenic areas of tour when you go to see the woke Olympics with lots of transgenders Heroes competing in women's sports. Ah what is woman it's always a question when you're in California and in flux just the way it is I need to invest in Warren Buffett he owns everything and he has control of all the railroads that move the coal around the West as long as it stays out of California and they just have those high voltage DC lines deliver in the voltag, well in the woke mind virus Infected == that's fine. Good Read == Book San FranSICKO It's almost so bad that I don't know if the election fraud that usually goes on in California can keep these people in power???
Gene, I started lobbying in California in 2002. I represented an industrial energy efficiency lighting manufacturer. My first conference was in Seal Beach.
During lunch, PUC Chairman Mike Peevey spoke to us. He then took questions. Raising my hand, I asked Mike if CA might make their energy rules and regulations less complicated. Everybody in the room laughed including Mike.
Then, a voice from the back of the room said: “There goes our revenue stream.”
For the next 15 years, I had a chance to watch Califorlornia commit slow-motion suicide. So many smart people, who are incapable of good governance and sound economics. S
I agree with your observations which echo many California energy meetings I've attended. Please cross-post our objection to California's "business as usual in your Substack so a wider audience may read it.
I believe it is true that California is the largest importer of electricity of any state or nation on Earth.
Nuclear France is the largest exporter. United Kingdom is a big importer of electricity & also exporter (to a lesser extent). When wind & solar are high (which is typically over all of Europe), they have to export at a very low market price to Europe. When wind and/or solar are low they have to import largely nuclear from France at a high market price. And France used their vulnerability to force concessions on the UK over fishing rights.
This book details CGNP's pro Diablo-Canyon advocacy. We helped to make history with the first nuclear power plant which had its operations extended because of a group of advocates.
Thank you for this important article. I live in California and am currently part of a group that is battling the local Superintendants in Santa Cruz to stop them putting in 3 new Lithium battery sites after the debacle of the Moss landing fire. It is an uphill battle as the superintendants are brain washed about climate change and Lithium batteries, or simply care more about aligning with the boss's agenda. Unfortunately most of the people in California are brainwashed too so it is an uphill battle:(.
Thanks! Please read and disseminate the article I recently co-wrote with Tuco's Child about the dangers of battery electric storage systems illustrated by the massive conflagration at the Moss Landing battery electric storage system. https://tucoschild.substack.com/p/a-net-zero-chernobyl-california-battery
California voters have the control over who’s in office. Apparently there is another attempt to recall governor goofball, but the last attempt solidified his goofiness and it got worse. The California voters own the pain inflicted on them and soon perhaps there will be a need for battery everything as the grid fails to meet demand. Keep the insanity in California - we shouldn’t let them migrate.
I think you're mixed up with Governor Waltz our loser from Minnesota. I see Newsome as being able to defeat Trump his hair is so perfect it's better than Trump's hair and at this point in the United States and the intelligence of the electorate plus a little help with electron fraud I really see that Newsom has a very good chance of being our president in 2029
Independent nonprofit Californians for Green Nuclear Power (CGNP) helped to convince Governor Newsom to keep Diablo Canyon running via the passage of SB 846 on September 2, 2022.. You may learn more about CGNP's advocacy in Rebecca Tuhus-Dubrow's new book, Atomic Dreams - Atomic Dreams: The New Nuclear Evangelists and the Fight for the Future of Energy https://www.amazon.com/Atomic-Dreams-Nuclear-Evangelists-Future-ebook/dp/B0DFW7H1GQ/ CGNP's educational work is described in chapter 14, The Guy in the Headband and subsequent chapters.
Thankfully, Newsom's family is not as heavily invested in fossil energy as his predecessor Edmund Brown, Jr. See this August 6, 2016 investigative report from Consumer Watchdogs titled, "Brown's Dirty Hands" https://consumerwatchdog.org/resources/BrownsDirtyHands.pdf
Edmund Gerald Brown Jr. is an American lawyer, author, and politician who served as the 34th and 39th governor of California from 1975 to 1983 and 2011 to 2019.
This article, just published on April 21, 2025 shows PacifiCorp went from number five lobbyist in 2023 to number three lobbyist in 2024, spending more than $13.4 million dollars for California "general lobbying." "Special interests poured more than half a billion into California lobbying last year" by Jeremiah Kimmelman, Cal Matters. https://calmatters.org/data/2025/04/california-lobbying-spending-2024/ In 2024, PacifiCorp spent far more lobbying than the much larger Pacific Gas & Electric.
Perhaps in response to CGNP's Complaint with the state Attorney General filed on April 28, 2025, https://greennuke.substack.com/p/californias-285-million-warren-buffett PacifiCorp finally admitted to lobbying for CAISO grid regionalization via the bill they have been promoting since fall, 2023, which was recently introduced as California SB 540 (Becker, 2025.)
PacifiCorp has promoted CAISO grid regionalization since 2016, when the U.S. Supreme Court in a unanimous decision styled as Hughes v. Talen Energy confirmed that multistate ISOs or ROs cannot favor an in-state generator. CAISO is currently a single state ISO. This decision gives PacifiCorp a pathway to successfully challenge California SB 846 (Dodd, 2022) which favors Diablo Canyon Power Plant (DCPP) near San Luis Obispo, California. CGNP believes that enactment of CAISO grid regionalization would provide many commercial advantages to PacifiCorp including the needless shutdown of DCPP. Since November, 2014, PacifiCorp has already sold at wholesale almost a billion dollars of mostly coal-fired electricity to California entities.
Fruit and nuts of closing down songs nuclear power plant have come to fruitation and many pols are getting rich at the expense of mostly illegal immigrants who really don't pay electricity bills and the dumb Woke lib people that are still left in California. I guess it's about 40% of people that don't pay their utility bills and get a pass? I'm so glad those Pacific Paliside fires where mostly the Lib Californians lived and thought they were immune from DEI and woke choices have gotten burned? It ought to be pretty scenic areas of tour when you go to see the woke Olympics with lots of transgenders Heroes competing in women's sports. Ah what is woman it's always a question when you're in California and in flux just the way it is I need to invest in Warren Buffett he owns everything and he has control of all the railroads that move the coal around the West as long as it stays out of California and they just have those high voltage DC lines deliver in the voltag, well in the woke mind virus Infected == that's fine. Good Read == Book San FranSICKO It's almost so bad that I don't know if the election fraud that usually goes on in California can keep these people in power???
CA: land of fruit and nuts
The schadenfreude is becoming more and more schöne.
Gene, I started lobbying in California in 2002. I represented an industrial energy efficiency lighting manufacturer. My first conference was in Seal Beach.
During lunch, PUC Chairman Mike Peevey spoke to us. He then took questions. Raising my hand, I asked Mike if CA might make their energy rules and regulations less complicated. Everybody in the room laughed including Mike.
Then, a voice from the back of the room said: “There goes our revenue stream.”
For the next 15 years, I had a chance to watch Califorlornia commit slow-motion suicide. So many smart people, who are incapable of good governance and sound economics. S
I agree with your observations which echo many California energy meetings I've attended. Please cross-post our objection to California's "business as usual in your Substack so a wider audience may read it.
Of course. Can you send me your Substack address?
CGNP's Substack is called GreenNUKE at https://greennuke.substack.com/
I believe it is true that California is the largest importer of electricity of any state or nation on Earth.
Nuclear France is the largest exporter. United Kingdom is a big importer of electricity & also exporter (to a lesser extent). When wind & solar are high (which is typically over all of Europe), they have to export at a very low market price to Europe. When wind and/or solar are low they have to import largely nuclear from France at a high market price. And France used their vulnerability to force concessions on the UK over fishing rights.
Yes. Nuclear power is safe, 24-7 reliable, abundant, cost-effective and pollution-free. See the new book by Rebecca Tuhus-Dubrow Atomic Dreams: The New Nuclear Evangelists and the Fight for the Future of Energy https://www.amazon.com/Atomic-Dreams-Nuclear-Evangelists-Future-ebook/dp/B0DFW7H1GQ/
This book details CGNP's pro Diablo-Canyon advocacy. We helped to make history with the first nuclear power plant which had its operations extended because of a group of advocates.
Thank you for this important article. I live in California and am currently part of a group that is battling the local Superintendants in Santa Cruz to stop them putting in 3 new Lithium battery sites after the debacle of the Moss landing fire. It is an uphill battle as the superintendants are brain washed about climate change and Lithium batteries, or simply care more about aligning with the boss's agenda. Unfortunately most of the people in California are brainwashed too so it is an uphill battle:(.
Thanks! Please read and disseminate the article I recently co-wrote with Tuco's Child about the dangers of battery electric storage systems illustrated by the massive conflagration at the Moss Landing battery electric storage system. https://tucoschild.substack.com/p/a-net-zero-chernobyl-california-battery
California voters have the control over who’s in office. Apparently there is another attempt to recall governor goofball, but the last attempt solidified his goofiness and it got worse. The California voters own the pain inflicted on them and soon perhaps there will be a need for battery everything as the grid fails to meet demand. Keep the insanity in California - we shouldn’t let them migrate.
I think you're mixed up with Governor Waltz our loser from Minnesota. I see Newsome as being able to defeat Trump his hair is so perfect it's better than Trump's hair and at this point in the United States and the intelligence of the electorate plus a little help with electron fraud I really see that Newsom has a very good chance of being our president in 2029
Independent nonprofit Californians for Green Nuclear Power (CGNP) helped to convince Governor Newsom to keep Diablo Canyon running via the passage of SB 846 on September 2, 2022.. You may learn more about CGNP's advocacy in Rebecca Tuhus-Dubrow's new book, Atomic Dreams - Atomic Dreams: The New Nuclear Evangelists and the Fight for the Future of Energy https://www.amazon.com/Atomic-Dreams-Nuclear-Evangelists-Future-ebook/dp/B0DFW7H1GQ/ CGNP's educational work is described in chapter 14, The Guy in the Headband and subsequent chapters.
thanks for working with whatever "goofball" is in office!
Thankfully, Newsom's family is not as heavily invested in fossil energy as his predecessor Edmund Brown, Jr. See this August 6, 2016 investigative report from Consumer Watchdogs titled, "Brown's Dirty Hands" https://consumerwatchdog.org/resources/BrownsDirtyHands.pdf
Edmund Gerald Brown Jr. is an American lawyer, author, and politician who served as the 34th and 39th governor of California from 1975 to 1983 and 2011 to 2019.
Even after reality becomes real, these bitter clingers hold on to failed ideologies.
Insane on every level, driven by ignorance, lobbying and CA climate policies.
Thank you for spotlighting this very important issue that is not well known by the public.
Buffett and PacifiCorp are apparently "dumping" cheap electricity at artificially low prices combined with lobbying, to stymie nuclear.
Many thanks to Gene for his tireless work in this David vs. Goliath struggle.
TC, I appreciate your endorsement!