Chase is a founder of San Diego Earth Day and served as a planning commissioner for the city of San Diego. She is currently president of Fiesta Island Dog Owners and lives in San Diego. The purpose of the Power San Diego electric utility is to 'provide its customers in the City of San Diego with reliable, affordable electric service' and to do it 'in the most transparent, effective and affordable manner possible.
Supplying the bulk of San Diego’s electricity with local renewable energy, while at the same time maximizing conservation and efficiency, can avoid thousands of acres of development of large remote projects and the construction of expensive transmission lines and associated wildfire risks. Not-for-profit municipal utilities are exempt from several harmful state policies that pose formidable barriers to local clean energy: 1.