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DID YOUR BILL INCREASE?

Did your SDG&E Bill Soar? Like so many other SDG&E customers, were you outraged by the price hike in your latest SDG&E bill?  As UCAN profiled in our recent newsletter (insert link), SDG&E gas prices rose by nearly 25% while electricity rates increased...

Time-of-Use Rate to Promote Electrification A.21-09-001

In this application, SDG&E is proposing a time-of-use rate with a fixed charge designed to encourage greenhouse gas (GHG) reduction by promoting electrification of behind-the-meter (BTM) technologies such as electric vehicles, energy storage units and heat pumps....

PG&E Continues to be Bad for California

 A Federal Judge concluded that “PG&E has gone on a crime spree and will emerge from probation as a continuing menace to California.” The Judge has overseen the company’s probation since its conviction of crimes connected to a 2010 natural gas pipeline explosion...

San Diego Battery Storage Project

 A 44 battery storage system project was just announced for San Diego County.  A project location will be built in El Cajon and another location will be rolled out in Chula Vista.  The goal is to add more emissions-free energy to California’s electric grid.  When...

Power Grid and Climate Change

 As SDG&E customers saw in January, various factors play out in influencing the electric power grid – and its costs.  Per a recent study, the electric power grid is heavily influenced by weather patterns, heat waves and dwindling water supplies. Climate change may...

San Diego Community Power Update

Soon, if you live in the City of San Diego, Chula Vista, La Mesa, Encinitas or Imperial Beach, you will get a new electricity provider.  San Diego Community Power (SDCP) a community choice energy program will enroll more than 700,000 residential customers between...