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Spreading appointees throughout the state’s existing energy structure, California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger Tuesday named a five-member “energy team,” providing regulatory, high-tech, energy efficiency, political and consulting experience.

Spreading appointees throughout the state’s existing energy structure, California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger Tuesday named a five-member “energy team,” providing regulatory, high-tech, energy efficiency, political and consulting experience.

As part of his larger 2004-05 fiscal year budget, California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger Friday proposed a significant downsizing of the state government bureaucracy overseeing the energy industry and further renegotiation of the state’s long-term power contracts with suppliers.

California’s movie actor-turned-governor, Arnold Schwarzenegger, late Tuesday targeted energy for job creation, market restructuring and government streamlining as part of his state-of-the-state address to the legislature in Sacramento, kicking off a year in which the state faces unprecedented budget deficits. Schwarzenegger emphasized the need to cut and consolidate government, including oversight of the energy sector.

Wasting no time in his first day on the job, California’s just-sworn-in Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger issued an executive order suspending all proposed new regulations and initiating a massive review of all regulations “adopted, amended or repealed in the last five years.”

Wasting no time in his first day on the job, California’s just-sworn-in Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger issued an executive order suspending all proposed new regulations and initiating a massive review of all regulations “adopted, amended or repealed in the last five years.”

An early assessment from western energy observers adds up to a long list of issues for California’s Gov.-elect Arnold Schwarzenegger once the election is officially certified and an official transition date is set. Some of them may test the new governor’s professed preference for market-based and environmentally sensitive solutions.

In an election day promise, Arnold Schwarzenegger, California’s newly elected governor, movie actor and former body-builder, vowed Tuesday to try to use market-based approaches on the state’s ailing wholesale energy markets.