Karin Burns will take the reins of the community choice energy provider April 18.
will take over April 18 after the board of San Diego Community Power, known as SDCP for short, voted 7-0 Thursday evening to hire her. Burns comes from the Bay Area, where she worked as vice president of corporate development at, a company that works with utilities, local governments and businesses on clean energy programs.
SDCP board members earlier considered hiring current chief operating officer Cody Hooven as CEO but, as, a state ethics watchdog determined Hooven ineligible for the top spot because she had a hand in writing the bylaws to create SDCP, which could be interpreted as a potential conflict of interest. Hooven will remain as COO.
Created by state legislation in the wake of the state’s energy crisis in 2000 and 2001, CCAs were formed to offer an alternative to the traditional investor-owned utility business model and encourage the purchase of clean-energy power contracts. SDCP offers customers a default program called PowerOn in which 50 percent of the electricity comes from renewable sources and 5 percent from greenhouse gas-free sources. By comparison, SDG&E’s default program offers about 31 percent from renewables.As per state rules, customers will be automatically enrolled in SDCP but if customers would rather stay with SDG&E, they can opt out for free.
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