Opinion: Susan Shelley: Flaws of California’s income-based utility bill plan continue to be exposed
On the website of the California Public Utilities Commission is a February 2022 presentation from UC Berkeley and the Energy Institute at Haas titled, “Ensuring Affordability for California’s Electricity Customers.”“California’s residential electricity prices are too high,” the first slide in the presentation states flatly.
In compliance with the rapidly enacted Assembly Bill 205, Pacific Gas & Electric, San Diego Gas & Electric and Southern California Edison submitted a proposal laying out their proposed fixed charges by income tiers, along with a reduction in the electricity rates charged for usage. In urgent italics, the authors wrote, “Reminder: Using state revenue to recover costs avoids all these implementation challenges and can easily create a progressive rate.”
In the view of some, it’s a problem that not everybody is paying their “fair share” of the cost of “infrastructure,” as it is defined. People who have installed solar panels, for example, have been paying a low fixed charge and not using much electricity from the grid.
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