One reason your power bill is high: Baked-in profits that critics call excessive
Public utilities can collect hundreds of millions of dollars in profits directly through fees on electric bills. Critics say ...
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SDG&E to pay $2.6M for mistakenly booting customers from discounted bill programs
SDG&E mistakenly disenrolled more than 20,000 customers ... relief to residential customers struggling to pay their utility bills. The $2.625 million in fines will be paid by shareholders of ...
CPUC approves plan requiring frequent inspections of PG&E safety practices
The California Public Utilities Commission moved forward Thursday with a plan to implement frequent safety evaluations for ...
Chico Enterprise-Record2d
Wildfire fund may fall short if utilities found at fault | California Focus
When Gov. Gavin Newsom and his political donor cronies at Pacific Gas & Electric Co. cooked up the $13 billion California Wildfire Fund in 2019, they never conceived of wildfire damages on the ...
Los Angeles Daily News18d
Susan Shelley: California regulations only make wildfires worse
In 2020, Senate Bill 1099 ... history. SDG&E went to court to fight the CPUC’s decision, and when their last appeal failed, public safety power shutoffs were introduced. Utilities don’t ...
PG&E says rates will stabilize next year after a record 2024 of California rate increases
Customers of PG&E saw record increases on their monthly bills in 2024, about $400 more annually than the year prior, according to PG&E estimates. That’s after state regulators approved an increase in ...
Federal funding freeze prompts chaos, confusion, lawsuits
A wide-ranging but vague order prompted California and nearly two dozen other states to sue President Donald Trump’s ...
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Wildfire fund may fall short if utilities found at fault
OPINION- When Gov. Gavin Newsom and his political donor cronies at Pacific Gas & Electric Co. cooked up the $13 billion California Wildfire Fund in 2019, they never conceived of wildfire ...
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LA fires reveal limits of California’s $21 billion utility fund
Financial losses from the devastating Los Angeles wildfires are mounting after the blazes incinerated entire neighborhoods and destroyed thousands of homes. And now, investors are growing increasingly ...