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This is Not a Theory: Essays from the Trenches on Monopoly, Climate Crisis and California's Local Power Revolt,

by Paul Fenn.

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Paul Fenn is widely regarded as the leader of California's Community Choice movement. The energy giant's proposed constitutional amendment and $35M campaign has put a spotlight on Community Choice as PG&E moves to block Marin County, San Francisco and other communities seeking to switch residents and businesses to greener power suppliers under the Community Chice law, Assembly Bill 117 (2002). Mr. Fenn wrote California's Community Choice law in 2002. After developing similar laws in Massachusetts, Ohio and New Jersey in the late 1990's, and also drafting the nation's first "solar bond" authority for San Francisco in 2001 - now a section of San Francisco's City Charter - Fenn's company, San Francisco-based Local Power Inc., has drafted ten years of documents for San Francisco's pathbreaking Community Choice energy program known as CleanPowerSF, and has been a leading participant in similar efforts throughout Northern California to implement major climate protection and energy independence measures using Community Choice and solar bonds. Fenn's company is now partnered with Los Alamos National Laboratories to refine the San Francisco-based company's Climate Action Plan recently completed for Sonoma County, tailoring a complex mix of green technology choices adapted to local energy use patterns. A comprehensive, unprecedented regional data survey is performing a detailed historical analysis of 250,000 PG&E meters to design an integrated local power infrastructure to deliver a record-breaking regional greenhouse gas reduction while requiring neither an electrical rate increase nor a major public investment.

Fenn's analysis of the real political, corporate challenges to stopping Climate Collapse combines the detailed knowledge of an expert with the broad-brush perspective and theoretical capacity of an historian. The author is particularly concerned with implementing the actual solution to climate crisis - now, as a discreet public works project, improving on the economics and ecology of market-based energy structures. Prior to commencing his 16 year career in energy, Mr. Fenn studied history and philosophy, winning a number of academic awards and earning a Master's degree in intellectual history at the University of Chicago in 1992, and has written and published continuously during this period. With public interest in Community Choice Aggregation now increased in the glow of Proposition 16, Fenn has decided to publish a book to present "a revolutionary view on the implications of climate change that extend beyond technology and into economic and political theory." A more detailed bio is here.