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< 8 LEAN on MCE The Galvin Electricity Initiative launched in 2005. Founder Robert Galvin served for more than 30 years at Motorola, Inc., where he was CEO and chairman when he departed. The idea grew out of the massive blackouts in the northeastern United States and eastern Canada in 2003 that left about 50 million people in the dark. The core is the Perfect Power System, which promotes consumer control over an energy grid rather than ceding control to monolithic utilities. It’s an idea that parallels what could be the ultimate result of community choice aggregation (public power) in California. Marshall released the LEAN white paper in January with the title, “Forming a National Community Choice Aggregation Network: Feasibility, Findings and Recommendations.â€? After submitting the paper to the Galvin Initiative, Marshall and her founding partner in LEAN, Megan Matson, learned that Galvin liked it. That led to an infusion of funds from Galvin to the tune of “a couple of hundred thousand dollars,â€? says Marshall, the executive director of LEAN. “They deďŹ nitely saw the value [of the proposal] because they are very engaged in expanding [community choice] in the Midwest and on the East Coast. It was a great alliance to try and go national.â€? Matson played an important role in getting LEAN out of the starting gate, working with Marshall to accomplish all the tasks needed to form a nonproďŹ t organization.

Matson, LEAN’s strategy and policy director, is a grassroots political consultant who founded another nonproďŹ t organization, Mainstreet Moms Organize or Bust, which grew out of dissatisfaction with the Bush administration. In 2006, Matson and her organization began investigating climate change and looking for solutions. MCE was an obvious candidate, says Matson, and the group started focusing on outreach and advocacy efforts with the goal of spreading the public power model across the Bay Area, the state and the country. That’s also the goal at the Galvin Initiative, which “had been researching best practices that really empower consumers and communities to take charge of their energy future,â€? says Kelly; he, along with Marshall and Daniel Douglass, is on the founding LEAN board of directors. Douglass is a principal in Douglass & Liddell, a ďŹ rm that specializes in energy law issues. (McGlashan’s seat will be ďŹ lled eventually, and the board will expand to seven members.) “We have concluded that there are [some] basic market transformations that need to occur,â€? says Kelly. “One is empowering consumers through pricing, net metering and other policy reforms that value consumer participation in the marketplace. The second area we identiďŹ ed was that cities are really a critical partner for both utilities and for clean-power procurement. We have been working on policies that empower communities. Community choice aggregation start-

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