Buying Green Power with Community Choice Aggregation. By Peter Asmus, CSM, April 22, 2008. "There are new ways for you to fight climate change in your own backyard. One of the most promising models is called 'Community Choice Aggregation.' CCA is the legal term for an innovative way for cities and counties to purchase electricity by votes of local governments. Previously, the only way for a local government to have a say in where the community's power came from was to establish a municipally owned utility. The CCA process provides an easier way to switch to an earth-friendlier power supply without taking on the burden of managing the power lines, collecting bills, and the divisive politics involved with the expensive process of bringing energy under municipal control. This type of community energy planning is happening in a big way in California's Marin County." Peter Asmus is a board member of the Marin Conservation League.
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