Can Community Choice Aggregation Work for Riverside County?

RIVERSIDE COUNTY, CA -- The Board of Supervisors is exploring a plan to offer more affordable electricity.

Known as community choice aggregation, the county "would act as a middle man of sorts and purchase electricity from existing providers such as Southern California Edison. Utilities still would own transmission lines and other infrastructure," according to The Press-Enterprise.

The plan would only apply to unincorporated areas of Riverside County.

If the county moves forward with the plan, ratepayers could save roughly 9 percent on their bills, according to the newspaper.

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