What's New in 2010
Revisiting California's Doomed Experiment in Electricity Deregulation, Ten Years Later.
In this section of The Energy Overseer, I try to exorcise some of the demons of this not-too distant past, by recounting the Western Energy Crisis via summaries of news stories and my Bottom Lines opinion columns from 1998 when the new system began operations through late 2001. Consider this a first-draft history of a grand, failed experiment. Look here.
As part of its review of the past decade, the Sacramento Bee newspaper began the year with my article on the residual costs of the power crisis, follow the link to the Oh Decade.
As Executive Director of the Center for Resource Solutions, I've been blessed to lead a terrifically talented staff of energy professionals who are carving out new markets for renewable energy and clean-tech solutions to the climate change challenge. CRS is the nonprofit agency that created and administers the Green-e certification program for renewable energy and carbon-offset products sold at the retail level. Besides Green-e, we also help advise energy policy here in California, across the U.S., and in China.
Arthur O'Donnell was for over three decades an award-winning reporter specializing in energy, environment and economics. His books include: In the City of Neighborhoods (iUniverse 2004) The Guilty Environmentalist (Trafford 2003) and Soul of the grid (iUniverse 2003). For beginning readers, When Chelsea Came to Stay (Trafford 2004), co-written with Tess Kelly, with illustrations by Sophia Varcados.
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