Why is California considering an income-based fixed charge on utility bills?
California utility bills may go up even higher
Standing up to utilities and for consumers for 50 years.
California utility bills may go up even higher
As Californians across the state receive their January household gas bills, many are shocked to find these bills have doubled in the last month.
The California Public Utilities Commission’s proposal for a solar tax is unacceptable.
Earlier this week the California Public Utility Committee proposed a rule change that could devestate rooftop solar. The new rule, NEM3.0, would assess a monthly solar penalty fee to all solar and storage customers, slash net metering credit by 80% and reduce the agreed upon billing structure for existing solar customers. Today, participants had one minute to voice their response at the CPUC meeting. Here is my statement:
Sharply reducing net metering payments and imposing high, solar-only fixed charges could slow the growth of rooftop solar installations – and, in the most extreme cases, could cause installations to plummet -- according to a new report released Tuesday by Environment California Research & Policy Center, CALPIRG Education Fund and Frontier Group.