If SDG&E gets its way, your rates will increase by $1.5 Billion in the next four years. Today, UCAN is fighting the rate hike by demanding that regulators lower your electric and natural gas costs, and we are backing it up with a year's worth of research and evidence. Read the Release.
The hearings are over. Many thanks to all who attended.
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?
San Diego Gas and Electric's culture of secrecy is more apparent than ever with today's refusal to provide data on the September 8 blackout to UCAN. What are they hiding?
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.
Is SDG&E Cooking the books to game the California Public Utilities Commission out of bonus money for meeting green energy goals? Probably.
On the front page of today's San Diego Union-Tribune, Onell Soto reports that thanks to her advisors, Senator Dianne Feinstein has her facts wrong on the Sunrise PowerLink. Is she just ill-informed? Get the facts.
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