-E&E News, May 5, 2010 by Debra Kahn
http://www.eenews.net/eenewspm/2010/05/05/6/
“Proposition 16, itself, is an example of a dominant special interest group opposing public power,” Weissman writes. “It is sponsored and heavily underwritten by a utility that is aggressive in opposing the creation of new munis and CCAs [community choice aggregators], as well as opposing the expansion of existing munis. Voters may want to consider whether it is more likely that future public power initiatives will face dominant proponents or dominant opponents.”
-KPFA-FM, The Pacifica Evening News, May 7, 2010 by Rachel Zurer
http://www.kpfa.org/archive/id/60877
“The question is who’s really going to provide renewable power? If passing Prop. 16 makes it that much less likely that local governments can step in and do it, than we may be dependent on the utilities’ own sense of good will to provide more renewable power than the law requires. And that’s a tough bet.”
-Bloomberg Businessweek, May 12, 2010 by Jason Dearen
http://www.businessweek.com/ap/financialnews/D9FL9HF80.htm
“Just over 100 years ago, our government granted local officials the right to form public utilities as a check on potential price gouging by power monopolies,” said Steven Weissman, co-author of Berkeley’s analysis and associate director of the university’s Center for Law, Energy and the Environment, which conducted the study. “Prop. 16 throws that check out the window.”