PRESS CONFERENCE TODAY, 8:00 AM, DECEMBER 20
UCAN News
If voters don't act now, the highest
electric rates in the nation
are about to get higher!
UCAN and former City Attorney Mike Aguirre will
be holding a joint Press Conference at 444 West C
Street, Suite 210, San Diego, CA 92129 at 8:00 AM
this morning.
Attorneys for SDG&E ratepayers and wild fire victims
will be calling on voters to contact their elected
officials to protest a NEW $1 billion dollar electric
rate hike that is about to be approved by the California
Public Utilities Commission.
Hidden in the fine print of its “WEBA”* rate application, SDG&E has asked CPUC, the California Public Utilities Commission, to retroactively impose a rate hike of nearly half a billion dollars on SDG&E customers to cover the cost of insurance for its power-line caused fires in 2007*, plus the cost of future damages.
WHO: Former City Attorney Michael Aguirre,
UCAN's newly appointed E.D. Donald Kelly,
UCAN’s Lead Wildfire Attorney, David Peffer
WHAT: We are calling on San Diego voters to
contact their elected officials
We will expose how SDG&E lobbyists have manipulated the regulatory
process to impose a $1 billion* rate hike on SDG&E customers.
A Firestorm Fact Checker explaining the rate hike and SDG&E’s
questionable legal arguments will be available.
WHERE: 444 West C Street, Suite 210, San Diego, CA 92129
WHEN: 8:00 AM
WHY: A new study shows San Diego pays the highest electric rates in the U.S.A.
To arrange an interview, or for background information, contact Charles Langley at (619) 690-9006, or cell (858) 752-4600.
*1 WEBA = “Wildfire Expense Balancing Account”
*2 Cal Fire has determined that the Witch, Rice, and Guejito Fires were SDG&E power-line caused.
*3There are an estimated 1.3 million meters in SDG&E’s territory. The proposed rate hike is $463 million, which works out to an average cost per meter of $356.00, plus the cost of future fires going forward.
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