Higher Electricity Rates
If you have any concerns about the increasing cost of your electric bills let me suggest your attending the June 21st CPUC hearing being held in the Ole Hanson Fireside Room of the San Clemente Community Center. The address is 100 N. Calle Seville. Time. 2.p.m. to 7 p.m.
Some of the proposed rate increase is needed to cover “higher administrative expenses” and “bloated executive pay packages.”
Wait until we get hit with rate hikes related to the federal mandate for conversion to clean coal. “Coal accounts for 40% of global electricity supply and the proportion is set to remain steady, even as global generating capacity rises. Coal-fired generating capacity may double by 2030, which would have a severe effect on carbon dioxide emissions unless new, cleaner technologies can be implemented ” And at what cost to you and I, the consumer?
For additional information on The Utility Reform Network, TURN, and these statewide hearings, simply contact Ana Montes or Kori Chen at 1-800-355-8876 or (415) 929-8876.
You can also get information on line at their web site. www.turn.org
Gilbert apology. Sorry I failed to post the June 9th Joint Hearing that was held in Garden Grove.
The last hearing will be held in the Palm Springs City Council Chambers on June 23rd.
This company has a track record of management cooking the books in order to earn bonuses and no incentive to control costs but instead to just seek, via lobbying and political patronage, approval from Sacramento to hike rates. Looks like more of the same. Wonder if some of these so callled increased costs are due to fat retirement benefits having an unfunded liability? I still chafe at the self-serving ads showing their trucks driving down a desert road while the narrator tells us the company has been trusted for 100 years. Wouldn’t it be nice if those who rail against government costs, inefficiencies and retirement plans devoted just a part of that energy to SCE and its sock it to the consumer practices?
Southern California Edison continues to give the rate payers the “finger”.
This is the same Southern California Edison that looted itself by forming Edison International.(Thank you to John Bryson’s (CEO) “deregulation manipulations” .
Edison International then received over $5.0 Billion of rate payer funds from SCE. These funds were then invested in wild schemes (that lost Billions ) like an energy facility in Thailand that was very quickly nationalized. Edison International watched this investment go down the drain. Why should SCE/Edison International care it wasn’t their money, it was the rate payers money.
This is the very same Southern California Edison that has falsified health and safety records at various facilities, including the San Onofre Nuclear Generation Plant. This is the very same Southern California Edison that has consistently been give bad audit marks at the San Onfre Nuclear Generation facility –including a “letter of Concern, from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. This is the very same Southern California Edison that falsified Customer Satisfaction Surveys and was fined $160M by the CPUC. This is the very same Southern California Edison that has dumped Tritium into the ocean–then claimed it was no problem after they were caught.
Now Southern California Edison wants an unjustified rate hike that will scorch the rate payers pockets—NO WAY.
I can not wait for that phony Gil Alexander (SCE spokes hole ) to issue his batch of B.S. on the results of the meeting.
Jackson.
Thank you for airing your views. You sound like an activist from Mission Viejo who has kept their feet to the fire. We need more watchdogs in dealing with a major utility player. Looking in my rear view mirror I seem to recall a year in which Edison Intl spent one million dollars for a Rose Parade float during a severe energy crisis.
*How is it possible that the energy companies always know – at least a year in advance, that the price of gasoline will be going up. Water and Energy is projected to go up 30% by the end of next year.
Ya think someone is controlling the prices of energy? Ya think they can figure out the growth of the market and how much the Saudi’s are going to cut back on production?
Hmmm…..pure coincidence…no doubt!
Ron and Anna. Do utility companies operate on a cost plus formula? This is different than the cost plus programs I recall from military sub contractors. In this case “cost plus” includes backfilling their pensions should the market collapse.
Is it our responsibility to guarantee them a fixed ROI? A huge shout out is called for.
We should all be like Anaheim, with their publicly accountable electrical company. The sort of thing we all defended and kept possible by defeating PG&E’s Prop 16 last year.
http://www.orangejuiceblog.com/2010/06/friends-dont-let-friends-vote-for-props-16-17-pt/
Vern – good point. I have been told (but have not verified myself), that Anaheim’s power charges to customers run 30% to 40% below that of SCE. If true, there is certainly a message there.
Mr. Gilbert:
It sounds like I am not alone if there are people in Mission Viejo that are onto the Southern California Edison band of bandits.
Thank you for keeping people informed about the public utilities and their forms of exploitation.
*Is that another SCE Generator….smoking beside an old condo project? It;s OK…remember when they paid Ken Lay and Enron…..when they doubled down….in the middle of energy crisis?
No biggie….Ken Lay doesn’t get out of jail for another 20 years.
*Sorry, we meant Jeff Skillings….Lay is already out of here, along with his black tennis shoes!