As PG&E Filed For Bankruptcy, Swaroop Kept Fighting For Energy Justice

"Shalini Swaroop is general counsel for Marin Clean Energy, the first of a new breed of electricity providers in California known as community choice aggregators, or CCAs. When Marin Clean Energy launched in 2010, it gave San Francisco Bay Area residents a government-run alternative to Pacific Gas & Electric, the monopoly utility that recently filed for bankruptcy protection amid huge wildfire liabilities.

Swaroop is no typical power company executive. Before getting involved in energy, she volunteered for a humanitarian group in Nepal during the final months of a civil war, clerked for the High Court of American Samoa in the South Pacific, and worked for the international criminal tribunal prosecuting war crimes committed in Yugoslavia.

Swaroop grew up in the Denver suburbs, a child of Indian immigrants. She worked four part-time jobs while majoring in women’s studies and psychology and minoring in peace and conflict studies at University of Colorado Boulder."

Sammy Roth reports for the Los Angeles Times April 10, 2019.

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"California’s Biggest Utilities Are Losing Their Monopolies. Is That A Good Thing?" (Los Angeles Times)

"California: Blackout Fears Fuel Move Toward Solar, Storage" (EnergyWire)

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