{"id":475759,"date":"2026-09-25T22:00:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-25T22:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/475759\/"},"modified":"2026-09-25T22:00:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-25T22:00:09","slug":"its-official-coronado-is-the-newest-addition-to-san-diego-community-power-san-diego-union-tribune","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/475759\/","title":{"rendered":"It\u2019s official: Coronado is the newest addition to San Diego Community Power \u2013 San Diego Union-Tribune"},"content":{"rendered":"

Coronado has formally become<\/a> the eighth member of San Diego Community Power<\/a>, the community choice aggregation, or CCA, program that offers an alternative to San Diego Gas & Electric for sourcing electricity for customers.<\/p>\n

Community Power\u2019s board on Thursday evening unanimously approved a resolution to add the seaside community to its roster.<\/p>\n

\u201cCoronado\u2019s membership reflects the growing demand for locally governed energy choices that prioritize affordability, accountability and community investment,\u201d board chair Terra Lawson-Remer<\/a> said in a statement. Lawson-Remer is also chair of the San Diego County Board of Supervisors.<\/p>\n

Community Power\u2019s approval comes two months after<\/a> Coronado\u2019s city council in Coronado voted to sign a joint powers agreement to join Community Power\u2019s roster.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are excited to bring the options and benefits available through community choice to Coronado,\u201d said Carrie Downey, Coronado\u2019s Mayor Pro Tem.<\/p>\n

Community Power will now file an implementation plan with the California Public Utilities Commission. Upon commission approval, it\u2019s anticipated that service will start in Coronado around March 2028<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Created by the California Legislature in 2002<\/a> to encourage the growth of renewable energy and provide competition to traditional investor-owned utilities, CCAs like Community Power are designed to offer customers higher percentages of renewable sources at comparable or slightly lower rates.<\/p>\n

When established, CCAs purchase electricity generation for residents and businesses in their respective municipalities.<\/p>\n

\"TheThe San Diego Union-Tribune<\/p>\n

In place since 2021, Community Power currently serves customers in the cities of San Diego, Chula Vista, La Mesa, Encinitas, Imperial Beach, National City and the unincorporated communities of San Diego County.<\/p>\n

Utilities such as SDG&E don\u2019t go away under the CCA model. They still perform all the responsibilities outside of purchasing power \u2014 such as delivering electricity via transmission and distribution lines; maintaining poles and wires; and handling customer services, including billing.<\/p>\n

Some 25 CCAs<\/a> have sprung up across California in recent years and Community Power, boasting more than 972,000 active accounts, is the second-largest CCA in the country. With Coronado joining the fold, there will be an additional 12,000 customer accounts.<\/p>\n

In 2022, Coronado\u00a0adopted a Climate Action Plan<\/a> that seeks, by 2030, to reduce greenhouse gas emissions within the city by 39% below 2016 levels.<\/p>\n

Community Power officials say adding Coronado will increase its total annual energy load by about 1% and will not have an impact on the CCA\u2019s existing accounts.<\/p>\n

As per state rules, potential Coronado customers will automatically be enrolled in Community Power \u2014 residents and businesses won\u2019t have to fill out any forms.<\/p>\n

Customers will not receive a separate bill. Rather, they will still receive a monthly statement from SDG&E that will include a notation saying \u201cCCA Electric Generation\u201d under the summary of current charges on Page 1 of their bills.<\/p>\n

If customers prefer to remain with SDG&E for their power purchases, they will have the ability to opt out of joining Community Power for free.<\/p>\n

Community Power offers customers three different plans:<\/p>\n

PowerOn, a program that has a portfolio of 53% renewables, plus 2% from carbon-free sources such as hydroelectricity. By comparison, SDG&E\u2019s renewable portfolio stands at 41%.
\nPowerBase, a less expensive option with a renewable energy content of 45%.
\nPower100, offering generation that pencils out to 100% renewable sources of energy, but it\u2019s more expensive than PowerOn and PowerBase.<\/p>\n

PowerOn will act as the default program for Coronado.<\/p>\n

According to projections released earlier this year, Community Power residential customers in 2026 enrolled in PowerOn who use an average of 341 kilowatt-hours of electricity pay 1.28% less compared to SDG&E per month (which works out to a savings of $2.10).<\/p>\n

Those on PowerBase pay 3.38% less, for a savings of $5.56. But residential customers enrolled in Community Power\u2019s Power100 program are projected to pay almost 1% more compared to SDG&E on a monthly bill, which works out to $1.30 higher.<\/p>\n

Coronado City Councilmember Kelly Purvis will represent Coronado on Community Power\u2019s Board of Directors, with Mayor Pro Tem Downey serving as the alternate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Coronado has formally become the eighth member of San Diego Community Power, the community choice aggregation, or CCA,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":475760,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[387,6774,643,181,23,100,74,76,75,1696],"class_list":["post-475759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-diego","tag-business","tag-energy","tag-environment","tag-latest-headlines","tag-local-news","tag-news","tag-san-diego","tag-san-diego-headlines","tag-san-diego-news","tag-top-stories-sdut"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475759","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=475759"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475759\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/475760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=475759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=475759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=475759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}