LAKE COUNTY, Calif. — The Clearlake City Council is planning a special meeting to consider a resolution in support of a plan for public power generation. 

The special meeting will take place at 6:30 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 2, in the council chambers at Clearlake City Hall, 14050 Olympic Drive, following the regular meeting at 6 p.m.

The meeting will be broadcast live on the city's YouTube channel or the Lake County PEGTV YouTube Channel. 

Community members also can participate via Zoom. The webinar passcode is 330437. 

The single item of business for the special meeting is the introduction and first reading of an ordinance authorizing the implementation of a community choice aggregation program by participating with the Sonoma Clean Power Authority, or SCPA.

If approved, the council will set a second reading for its next meeting.

During its regular meeting ahead of the special meeting on Tuesday, the council will discuss and consider joining SCPA.

The council met with the Lakeport City Council and the Board of Supervisors in a special meeting on Tuesday evening to discuss the SCPA proposal.

City Attorney Scott Drexel’s report to the council explains that community choice aggregation, authorized by Assembly Bill 117 in 2002, “allows cities and counties to aggregate the electricity load of residents and businesses to procure power from alternative suppliers while maintaining the existing utility's role in delivering that power.”

Drexel said that SCPA has operated a community choice aggregation program since 2014. 

SCPA now serves customers in Sonoma and Mendocino counties.

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