San Diego Mayor Dick Murphy also has met with supervisors and supports the idea of a municipal utility district, Horn said. The five Republican supervisors, who have made outsourcing and privatizing their mission, see the irony of the move into the power business. But we have an unregulated monopoly here, the worst of all conditions. The supervisors railed against the power generators, pointing to profit increases of between 31 percent and 342 percent for the 11 power generators selling electricity in California. We've encouraged the cities to look for better power deals, including by building small city-owned power plants or by purchasing as larger groups.
More generation is certainly in everybody's interest.
It took Sacramento Utility District 24 years and a ruling by the state Supreme Court to do that.