Issue Position: Energy

Issue Position

Let's be an ambitious state! It is frustrating when state government pleads with Californians to limit their energy use during heat waves. Instead, we should be building a power system that meets our needs even when they spike, as they do every single summer.

And we can make it affordable, too. Our residential electricity rates have risen dramatically as we've worked to integrate more renewable energy into our power grid. Even if that is a worthy goal, it should not be our only goal. We need to be cost-competitive with other states so our energy-intensive businesses will stay home and provide jobs right here. We need relief to families who are paying more and more of their budgets for this basic good.

I will support reliable, affordable, and abundant energy so we don't suffer blackouts and create energy poverty.

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