The Press-Enterprise, August 31, 2010 by Alicia Robinson
http://www.pe.com/localnews/riverside/stories/PE_News_Local_D_wmeters01.32c4d1c.html

Steven Weissman, associate director of the Center for Law, Energy and the Environment at UC Berkeley School of Law, said customers have expressed concerns about whether their data could be stolen or misused, and whether utilities would exert control over how customers use power—for example, remotely shutting off an air conditioning unit.

-Contra Costa Times, July 6, 2010 by Matt Krupnick
http://www.contracostatimes.com/top-stories/ci_15436613?nclick_check=1

Few public agencies have employees who know enough about solar power to make decisions on their own, said Steve Weissman, a UC Berkeley law professor and former administrative-law judge with the California Public Utilities Commission. The determination not to seek bids “requires a greater amount of trust in the officials reaching the decision,” Weissman said. “But going out to bid doesn’t really overcome a lack of in-house expertise.”

-Contra Costa Times, July 13, 2010 by Matt Krupnick
http://www.insidebayarea.com/top-stories/ci_15507443

“California law exempts energy projects from bidding requirements, allowing cities, counties and schools to sign multimillion-dollar contracts with companies without shopping for the best price. The California Solar Incentive reforms should prompt more agencies to seek bids, Weissman said. “It’s easy to imagine that there are a number of entities that will be disappointed,” he said. “But it will give them a chance to go back to the bargaining table and get a better deal.”

KPFA-FM, Letters to Washington, June 17, 2010 Host Mitch Jesserich
http://www.kpfa.org/archive/id/61914

“There has certainly been a strong desire in many people’s hearts in Washington to create a transformation in the way we think about energy and its relationship to the environmental economy. And of course that effort to transform has continually run into resistance from all the regular places. Now the question is whether this particular disaster in the Gulf is going to create an opportunity that could be transformative.”

San Francisco Chronicle, June 16, 2010 by Joe Garofoli
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/06/15/BAP51DVPH8.DTL

Putting the weight of the governor’s office behind such a goal for localized power would “be a real shift in priorities,” Weissman said. “That, to me, would be a big step forward.”

-The Bay Citizen, June 3, 2010 by Katharine Mieszkowski
http://www.baycitizen.org/politics/story/pges-lonely-proposition-fight/

“It will have enough of a chilling effect to eliminate some public power initiatives going forward. Those that do go on the ballot—it’s likely that many of those might lose,” said Steven Weissman, associate director of the UC Berkeley School of Law’s Center for Law, Energy and the Environment.

-The Bay Citizen, June 9, 2010 by Katharine Mieszkowski
http://www.baycitizen.org/june-8-election/story/proposition-16-fails/

“This is a stunning reversal of the normal expectation that money can buy results in California elections,” said Steven Weissman, associate director of the UC Berkeley School of Law’s Center for Law, Energy and the Environment.

-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.”

California Energy Circuit, October 16, 2009 by Elizabeth McCarthy
http://www.californiaenergycircuit.net (requires registration; go to G:\Law School in the News\News Clips for article)

“Some executive orders are largely ceremonial and without legal clout, and this may be one of them,” said Steven Weismann, University of California, Berkeley, Boalt Hall lecturer and Associate Director for the Center for Law, Energy, and the Environment.

Electric Utility Week, February 9, 2009 by Lisa Weinzimer
http://www.platts.com (requires registration; go to G:\Law School in the News\News Clips for article)

“The PUC is accountable for both the environmental impact of [transmission] projects and the rate impacts of projects. If you separate those two, it increases the risk of a project being approved even if it doesn’t make economic sense,” Weissman said.