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If you charged the highest rates in the nation, you wouldn't want to talk about it on TV, either.
In this KPBS Evening Edition interview on the details of the latest SDG&E rate hike, it is revealed that SDG&E refused to be interviewed alongside UCAN's Michael Shames. Can you blame them?
The Potential for Lower SDG&E Gas and Electric Rates in 2012
SDG&E claims that increasing costs of doing business necessitates $1.5 billion more of its customers’ money. For 2012, the increase would start at $168 million and grow over the following three years. UCAN and its team of experts poured through SDG&E’s books and reached an entirely different conclusion. Not only does SDG&E not need more money, in fact, it could actually use less money than it currently collects.
State regulators have the authority to decide whether SDG&E rates will increase or decrease. UCAN believes this boils down to an issue of fairness. While customers are in the midst of the worst recession in many of our lifetimes, should ratepayers be funding SDG&E’s wish list of expenditures or should state regulators actually reel in SDG&E’s spending to meet its actual need and spare its customers significantly increased costs?
UCAN TESTIMONY SDG&E GRC 2012
Date of Filing/Decision
Testimony on behalf of the Utility Consumers' Action Network submitted on September 22, 2011 in the San Diego Gas & Electric General Rate Case before the California Public Utilities Commission A.10-12-005 and A.10-12-006.
SDG&E's Proposed Smart Meter Rates Aren't Very Smart
Just because the smart meters are smarter doesn't mean the way SDG&E plans to use them will be particularly brilliant. Based upon UCAN's analysis of SDG&E's Dynamic Pricing application, it turns out SDG&E's planned use of the meters is downright dumb. And UCAN's four teams of experts have a field day exposing SDG&E's not-so-smart meter pricing scheme.
SDG&E Smart Meters: Helpful or a huge headache?
This 10NEWS story by Bob Lawrence marks the installation of the one-millionth smart electric meter with footage of a masked SDG&E employee swapping out an analog electric meter. SDG&E claims that they've only had a "few" complaints, but UCAN has received quite a few. Are you concerned? Find out what you can do to monitor the new Smart Meters.
Discover Card Lowered Interest Rate for Customer
A UCAN member wants you to know that his call to Discover Card resulted in lowering his credit card interest rate. Has Discover Card become humane and will others follow? Read on.
SDG&E's PV Project: The Promise and the Peril
It took two years, but the PUC finally adopted a utility-based solar power project in San Diego. It borders upon insanity that the one city in the United States that is so blessed with sun is not leading the solar PV revolution. We've been out hustled by San Francisco, Santa Monica, Germany, Japan and countless other countries who can only dream to have San Diego's solar bounty.
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