Bay Area communities gearing up to create their own power systems

From Silicon Valley to the East Bay to the Central Coast, a "people’s power" movement is sweeping through California that will give local residents a choice to ditch PG&E and buy cleaner — and possibly cheaper — energy from the cities and counties where they live.

By Tracy Seipel

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