The five-member appointed California Utilities Commission will vote Thursday on a plan that would require most residents to pay an additional $24 per month.
While the proponents of the plan say it would restructure how fixed rates are paid, opponents say it would be a rate hike for people who do not use much electricity.In a radical departure from how Californian’s have paid for electricity in the past, a state commission is considering charging rate payers not just for the electricity they use, but based on their income, their privilege to use it.
But while backers of the plan insist what is being proposed is not a rate hike, environmental and tenants’ rights groups say it willPeople in apartments, people who live in smaller units, people in urban areas where the footprint of the house is smaller, are going to pay more, period” said Loretta Lynch, an environmental attorney and former President of the PUC.
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