California Community Choice: An Interactive Map

Please feel free to browse the map. Click in any county for a drop-down menu of cities. Click here for detailed instructions

A listing of all operational and emerging CCAs with hyperlinks is below the map.

Map updated: 11/17/20

Notes:

  • We try to update the map whenever we have new information and regularly check in and update every Friday. If you have an update or correction, please let us know: info@cleanpowerexchange.org
  • This is not a map of Community Choice Agencies, per se, it is a map of all 58 counties and all 482 cities in California with information about their status relative to Community Choice Energy

Operational Community Choice agencies:

  1. MCE Clean Energy, launched 2010, Marin, Napa, and cities in Solano and Contra Costa counties
  2. Sonoma Clean Power, launched May 2014, Sonoma and Mendocino Counties
  3. Lancaster Choice Energy, launched May 2015, City of Lancaster in L.A. County
  4. CleanPowerSF, launched May 2016, City and County of San Francisco
  5. Peninsula Clean Energy, launched October 2016, San Mateo County
  6. Silicon Valley Clean Energy, launched April 2017, Santa Clara County
  7. Apple Valley Choice Energy, launched April 2017, City of Apple Valley
  8. Redwood Coast Energy Authority, launched May 2017, Humboldt County
  9. Pico Rivera Innovative Municipal Energy (PRIME), launched September 2017
  10. Pioneer Community Energy, launched February 2018, Placer County
  11. Clean Power Alliance of Southern California, launched February 2018, Los Angeles and Ventura Counties
  12. Central Coast Community Energy (Formerly Monterey Bay Community Power), launched March 2018, Monterey, Santa Cruz, San Benito counties, and cities in San Luis Obispo County.  It now also includes unincorporated Santa Barbara County and most of its cities (but not the City of Santa Barbara which is setting up its own Santa Barbara Clean Energy, and not Lompoc which has public utility
  13. San Jacinto Power, launched April 2018, City of San Jacinto
  14. Rancho Mirage Energy Authority Launched May 2018
  15. Clean Energy Alliance, launched June 2018 by the city of Solana Beach, now a JPA
  16. Valley Clean Energy, launched June 2018, Yolo County
  17. East Bay Community Energy, launched June 2018, Alameda County
  18. San Jose Clean Energy (Launched Sept. 2018)
  19. King City Community Power Launched July 2018, Monterey County
  20. Desert Community Energy Launched April 2020, Central and Eastern Riverside County
  21. Pomona Choice Energy, Launched October 2020
  22. California Choice Energy Authority – Several CCAs are operational or in the works through this hybrid joint powers authority
  23. Orange County Power Authority – Orange County and several OC cities
  24. Butte Choice Energy  – Butte County and the City of Chico
  25. San Diego Community Power  – Cities of San Diego. Chula Vista, Encinitas, Imperial Beach, and La Mesa
  26. Clean Energy Alliance – North San Diego cities of Solana Beach, Carlsbad, and Del Mar

Emerging Community Choice agencies (CCAs):

Who’s Next?

How to use this map:

This map, updated weekly, shows the evolving development of Community Choice in California. The unique aspect of this map is that it includes information for all 58 counties and all 482 incorporated cities in the state. Each color represents one of eight levels, 0 through 7, of program development, in addition to those that are ineligible because they are served by a municipal public utility or Irrigation District. A full legend with the numbering and corresponding number and lever description is HERE.

To learn about the progress of Community Choice, click on any county and its respective cities. Please note that most counties have a mixed composition of program development among their cities. We assign each county the color that represents the level corresponding to most of the county. Click on the cities for more detail.

The county and city information boxes may contain website links. Some of these links will need to be pasted into your browser’s address bar.

Information for this map comes from a variety of sources. We strive to keep the map as current and accurate as possible, though the process involves some subjectivity and there may be delays in updating the data. We welcome your feedback.

Click here to return to the map.

Data Sources:

Population: United States Census Data
Info about utility service areas: California Energy Commission 
Info about electrical load: California Energy Commission Energy Almanac
Info about status of CCA efforts: City and County websites

If you have questions, comments, or updates, please contact Woody Hastings, woody@theclimatecenter.org