California Raises Rates, Again! and Again! and Again! and Again! and Again

[elektra]

California is raising electric rates, again and again and again. Meaning they will raise rates every year for the next 5 years! On top of that they claim that is not enough to pay for the Green Clean Renewable Energy.

California is a bankrupt power producer that is now pouring money down a hole.
Further, water rates will go up to offset for the increase in the price of electricity. This is just the beginning, the government is just getting rate payers ready for ever larger rate increases in the future.

California approves major electricity rate changes

Edison and other electricity providers have argued that current rates unfairly penalize high-usage customers, and that low-usage customers aren't paying their fair share.Utility companies have also said that all customers, including solar customers, need to pay more to keep the electric grid running — hence the need for higher fixed charges.

LADWP Board to Vote on Electricity Rate Increase

"These reviews are critical as the utility industry is in a moment of transition and innovation," Garcetti said.

He noted the DWP is expected to replace 70 percent of its power sources over the next 15 years "to meet state mandates, fight climate change and fund the energy efficiency programs that enable customers to lower their bills even as rates rise."

 

[bodecea]

California is raising electric rates, again and again and again. Meaning they will raise rates every year for the next 5 years! On top of that they claim that is not enough to pay for the Green Clean Renewable Energy.

California is a bankrupt power producer that is now pouring money down a hole.
Further, water rates will go up to offset for the increase in the price of electricity. This is just the beginning, the government is just getting rate payers ready for ever larger rate increases in the future.

California approves major electricity rate changes

Edison and other electricity providers have argued that current rates unfairly penalize high-usage customers, and that low-usage customers aren't paying their fair share.Utility companies have also said that all customers, including solar customers, need to pay more to keep the electric grid running — hence the need for higher fixed charges.

LADWP Board to Vote on Electricity Rate Increase

"These reviews are critical as the utility industry is in a moment of transition and innovation," Garcetti said.

He noted the DWP is expected to replace 70 percent of its power sources over the next 15 years "to meet state mandates, fight climate change and fund the energy efficiency programs that enable customers to lower their bills even as rates rise."

All of California? You seem to think that all of the state is under the same company.

 

[elektra]

All of California? You seem to think that all of the state is under the same company.

It is not what I seem to think, it is what I know, all of California!

State Officials control the electricity market, it is not free, it is controlled. Hence the Government is raising rates, across the entire state.

California approves major electricity rate changes

State officials voted unanimously to raise electricity rates for millions of Californians on Friday, over the objections of consumer advocates and environmental groups who called the plan a giveaway to the wealthy and said it would discourage people from saving energy and going solar.

 

[Votto]

That's what happens when you live in a shit hole run by shit heads.

 

[depotoo]

Here in Florida rates keep dropping. The rates are lower than 10 years ago. It is wonderful! Thank you natural gas!
California could take a lesson.
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[Eaglewings]

PGE has to pay for the zillion dollar blow up in the Daly City Law Suit...dumb ass corrupt as hell.

We got solar about 5 years ago, thank God I need the air conditioner.

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[DGS49]

This is one case where you get what you deserve. The voters of California have elected people who cater to the desires of those who elected them. As a general proposition, public utility rates are based on actual costs, which are reviewed thoroughly by a state public utility overseer. "Coastal California" is the dominant political force in California politics, and it doesn't really care about the cost of electricity, as long as it can be comforted with the thought that they are being as "green" as is practicable.

If you live in the real world, away from the coast, you have my sympathy. But California is getting what it deserves.

 

[elektra]

PGE has to pay for the zillion dollar blow up in the Daly City Law Suit...dumb ass corrupt as hell.

We got solar about 5 years ago, thank God I need the air conditioner.

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That is just PG&E, in the Bay Area, PG&E has a seperate subsidary for each region, to protect itself from stuff like this, certainly SDG&E is not paying for the Daly City lawsuit!

 

[Old Rocks]

At some point, the monthly bill from the utility will make it economical to buy a solar system for your home, with storage batteries like those produced by Tesla. And then there will be a political fight as the GOP tries to protect the utilities by outlawing such systems.

 

[Stephanie]

Well, they've allowed their government to walk all over them. I mean for crying out loud they elected Moonbeam as their Governor and he put in every radical environmentalist he knows in office. so this is where they are. what they've done to the state and people in it should be a crime

 

[Iceweasel]

Sounds like the regulators have taken a page out of Enron's book and are squeezing every buck out of it they can.

 

[Mr Natural]

California's not raising the rates, the utility companies are.

 

[elektra]

At some point, the monthly bill from the utility will make it economical to buy a solar system for your home, with storage batteries like those produced by Tesla. And then there will be a political fight as the GOP tries to protect the utilities by outlawing such systems.

At some point the Liberals will make electricity so expensive a 20,000 dollar system will seem like a bargain? Tesla is bankrupt company being propped up by tax dollars, subsidies and grants, we are all paying for.

 

[elektra]

California's not raising the rates, the utility companies are.

Did you read the links? Obviously not, the Government controls that rates, the Utilities can not raise the rates without government approval. It is the law. Literally.

Educate yourself so we don't have to.

 

[Iceweasel]

California's not raising the rates, the utility companies are.

The article says the board voted in the increase. Was it wrong.

 

[elektra]

California's not raising the rates, the utility companies are.

The article says the board voted in the increase. Was it wrong.

I gave links to, two articles, one for the state regulators voting to allow rates to rise and the other link was the city of los angeles raising rates.

The quote from the second link shows specifically that rates must rise to pay for solar and wind power as mandated by the states.

 

[Iceweasel]

California's not raising the rates, the utility companies are.

The article says the board voted in the increase. Was it wrong.

I gave links to, two articles, one for the state regulators voting to allow rates to rise and the other link was the city of los angeles raising rates.

The quote from the second link shows specifically that rates must rise to pay for solar and wind power as mandated by the states.

...and?

 

[elektra]

The quote from the second link shows specifically that rates must rise to pay for solar and wind power as mandated by the states.

...and?[/QUOTE]
And as I have stated, California's politicians are raising Electric Rates to pay for Green Energy that failed