PG&E has blackouts to prevent wildfires. It's not clear how switching to a different provider would solve that problem. But even accepting your premise that P

PG&E has blackouts to prevent wildfires. It's not clear how switching to a different provider would solve that problem. But even accepting your premise that Portland's PGE "mogs the fuck out of PG&E", under the scheme I proposed, California voters could vote to assign say 5% of California energy contracts to Portland's PGE and see how it goes. That % could increase every year if the voters think they're doing a good job. The thing I proposed is not the same as traditional utility privatization. Utilities are natural monopolies, so privatizing them doesn't actually create competition. With the proposal above, the voters get to vote on exactly how much competition they want in each industry, including utilities.