Enron Part 2: “Get Shorty!” | California Alliance for Community Energy

**Per SacBee —** “A view of the control room from an overlook room shows the power grid at the California Independent System Operator, or ISO, in Folsom in December 2018. Utility ratepayers have lost more than $866 million to energy firms trading in obscure ISO financial contracts. (emphasis added by CACE)” Renée C. Byer rbyer@sacbee.com

What’s really behind the blackouts that rolled across California this past August? The Alliance has been pleased to work with attorney and former CPUC President Loretta Lynch as she applies insights from California’s Great Energy Crisis of 2001 to her analysis of the rolling blackouts of 2020. Has CAISO really learned anything about protecting Californians from predatory “deregulated markets”?

A preliminary reference list is below. Watch this space for further developments.

“Preliminary Root Cause Analysis: Mid-August 2020 Heat Storm” — October 6, 2020
Slides from Loretta’s Alliance Statewide calls September 24 and October 22;
Alliance handouts (pending) — to help members explain key points to their elected officials and particularly to the boards of their Community Choice agencies.
Background references from others: a) What is the California ISO and why were there no outages in Sacramento?” b) The Energy Gang August 20, 2020 – podcast “What Really Caused California‘s Blackouts?”