County Pulls the Plug on OCPA After Audit Reveals Gross Mismanagement and a Continued Lack of Transparency
Just in time for the holidays, the Orange County Power Authority (OCPA) got a lump of coal in the form of another highly critical review of the agency’s operations.
The new audit revealed that a whopping 20.4% of OCPA customers have opted-out, choosing to remain with Southern California Edison (SCE). That is triple the average opt-out rate statewide among similar agencies. The loss of electricity sales, or “load loss,” was 16.5%, nearly double the 8.5% that OCPA estimated in its pre-launch planning.
The auditors for the County blasted the OCPA for offering rates that are significantly higher than SCE rates, and making rate information difficult for ratepayers to find.
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