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Elias: California power invoice could possibly be Legislature’s worst this yr

Editorial Board Published July 18, 2025
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There may be not often a scarcity of self-destructive payments within the California Legislature when lawmakers come again from their summer time recess and prepare to confront the true penalties of proposed legal guidelines which have already handed one legislative home. Maybe this yr’s greatest instance as legislators arrive again on the town this August will likely be a invoice generally known as SB 540 and sponsored by Silicon Valley’s Josh Becker, D-Menlo Park.

This invoice would basically finish California’s means to determine what sort of electrical power it is going to use all the time to return. It throws out Enron-era protections in opposition to worth manipulation and basically provides the Trump administration management over this state’s environmental legal guidelines. Sure, coal could possibly be again, if that’s what President Trump or utility executives in states like Idaho and Utah need to impose on Californians. They usually do.

This summer time has already given ample proof of how poorly Trump and his minions perceive California. First, that they had the Immigration and Customs Enforcement company conduct a wave of raids throughout Southern California, claiming they had been going after prison unlawful immigrants.

They did actually arrest and deport just a few undocumented individuals with critical prison information. However most raids had been carried out at eating places, automotive washes and constructing provide shops the place the undocumented usually search day work. These aroused crowds of hundreds, nearly all of whom protested peacefully, despite the fact that there was some vandalism, largely at night time when crowds had thinned.

There isn’t any cause to consider Trump understands the California electrical grid any higher than he understands how Californians protest and react to what many see as injustice.

That’s what makes the Western grid envisioned in SB 540 so doubtlessly pernicious. This invoice, strongly backed by Google and different Silicon Valley giants, would give a lot of the facility to find out the place and what sort of energy vegetation could be positioned across the West to the Federal Vitality Regulatory Fee (FERC).

After all, huge California firms purveying at present stylish synthetic intelligence are all for this. They’re constructing increasingly more information facilities within the rural west, together with components of California’s Central Valley, they usually want big new energy provides.

Sure, some senators voiced issues about Trump pre-empting California legal guidelines to offer this — and the dearth of legislative oversight within the invoice. Nonetheless, that didn’t preserve the vote within the state Senate from going 33-1 to advance this deregulation legislation.

Because the invoice moved by Senate committees, amendments had been added to require minimizing prices and maximizing provide, in addition to some transparency. All these amendments disappeared earlier than the ultimate vote, although, and would should be reinstated by the state Meeting — until it’s equally intimidated by the high-tech help for this measure.

One evaluation by the Senate Judiciary Committee was particularly on level: “California could see significant harms to its energy goals and its standing in the regional market,” the committee workers stated. “These dangers are even greater now that Trump has … directed the U.S. attorney general to find ways to curtail our state’s climate change efforts.”

Nonetheless, many Democrats with robust environmental information went together with this, even approving the repeal of protections in opposition to worth gouging. It’s all a method for synthetic intelligence companies to manage the electrical marketplace for their profit with little or no transparency for hundreds of thousands of different shoppers. It’s definitely daring however might additionally yield an Enron-like catastrophe in the event that they hoard energy and pressure costs up.

Solely this time, the legislation wouldn’t enable California to resolve the issue by itself however quite would preserve it tethered to different states that don’t care a bit about California shoppers. All this stupidity is barely a part of what makes SB 540 maybe the yr’s dumbest invoice.

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