Report on the Development and Organization of the California Electric Users211 Cooperative. Consultant Report

摘要

The California Electric Users Cooperative (CEUC) is an electric cooperative211u001ewithout wires, the first organized under the new regime of California's electric 211u001eindustry restructuring. It aggregates the electric loads of small farmers and 211u001eprocessors who are organized into agricultural cooperatives under the provisions 211u001eof the California Food and Agricultural Code. The product of over a year of grass-211u001eroots organizing and an extensive collaboration among private organizations and 211u001epublic agencies, it provides a model for consumer-initiated and consumer-owned 211u001eand -controlled entities attempting to function in California's new electric 211u001emarketplace. The CEUC is a cooperative whose members are agricultural 211u001ecooperatives. Such cooperatives must agree to purchase their electric energy 211u001ethrough the CEUC. Individual farmers and processing entities who are members of 211u001ethe CEUC-member cooperatives are also entitled to purchase energy through the 211u001eCEUC. CEUC has negotiated a master agreement for power supply that guarantees 211u001eCEUC members and their farmer members a reduction in their annual electric bill.