Join us for a discussion with Ruth Merino (Chair of San Jose Community Energy Advocates) and Bill Julian (previous Legislative Director of the CPUC) about an ongoing effort at the CAISO (the Pathways Initiative) to revive last year’s AB 538 (Holden). AB 538 abrogates CA’s hard-won post-Energy Crisis consumer protections and undermines CA’s energy policy sovereignty. AB 538 was defeated in the Legislature in 2023
Pathways: The Empire Strikes Back
About The Speakers
Bill Julian
Energy Policy Lawyer
Bill Julian is a lawyer who was staff to the energy policy committees in the CA Assembly and Senate and Legislative Director of the CPUC during President Lynch’s tenure.
Loretta Lynch
→ See additional callsFormer President, California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC)
Loretta Lynch is a lawyer who served as President of the California Public Utilities Commission during the first California Energy Crisis, fighting deregulation and monopoly utility bailouts. She provides crucial legal insights into NEM court cases and fights for community protections.
Ms. Lynch served on the CPUC from 1999 through 2004, including through California's Energy Crisis 2000 through 2002. She fought deregulation and PG&E's first bankruptcy bailout, and has worked since in many venues for community-based renewable energy. Prior to government service, she was a partner at Keker & Van Nest in San Francisco.
Ruth Merino
Chair, San Jose Community Energy Advocates
Ruth Merino is the Chair of San Jose Community Energy Advocates, a volunteer community group that advocated for and continues to support San Jose Clean Energy. Ruth participates as a member of the public on the West-Wide Governance Pathways Initiative Stakeholder Group monthly meetings.
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