Effective this week, the Clean Energy Alliance added customers in Oceanside and Vista to its roster — an expansion that makes the North County-based community choice energy program the 10th-largest in California. The additions grow the number of customer accounts of the Clean Energy Alliance, known as CEA, to about 220,000.
They still perform every other duty outside of power generation purchases — such as maintaining poles, wires and power lines in their respective transmission and distribution systems, plus handling customer services, such as billing. As per state rules, once a jurisdiction establishes a community energy program, customers are automatically enrolled. But if customers want to remain with their incumbent investor-owned utility, they can opt out for free.