Potter Valley Project

April 5, 2025 — On a brisk Friday evening in Northern California, more than 400 constituents packed into Mendocino College’s auditorium. What unfolded over the next ninety minutes was part policy briefing, part civic reckoning—and a full-throated reminder that the American town hall remains one of the last sacred venues where democracy breathes face-to-face.

October 18, 2021 — Efforts to take over the license for the Potter Valley Project have had some significant setbacks lately. One is an expensive equipment failure that could take up to a year and a half to repair. The other is that the Two Basin Partnership, a coalition of entities seeking to take over the license from PG&E, has not been able to secure the funding it needs for studies that are necessary for a final license application. The Partnership asked the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) for some extra time to come up with the money, but FERC refused. Now the Partnership is worried that the Commission could ask PG&E to surrender the project

September 16, 2021 — The coalition of entities that wants to take over the license for the Potter Valley Project is asking the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to give it until May of next year to refine its plans.