Regulated monopoly utilities tend to behave better when they face a credible threat of some other model visibly outperforming them. The credible threat from public city-run utilities was the main reason the robber barons who ran electricity monopolies agreed to regulation in the first place.
Kevin J. Kircher
I'll go on record and say that municipalizing San Francisco's electricity system is a good idea, with or without California state acting to do something about all of PG&E. It would dramatically weaken PG&E's political power; it would spur follow-on action; it would move SF forward on decarb.
