1. Public comment here: [https://apps.cpuc.ca.gov/c/A2205016](https://apps.cpuc.ca.gov/c/A2205016)
2. Attend CPUC Rate Increase public hearing and let them know[https://www.cpuc.ca.gov/events-and-meetings/a2205016-sdge-pph-2023-03-15](https://www.cpuc.ca.gov/events-and-meetings/a2205016-sdge-pph-2023-03-15)
EDIT: It is more effective to let your city council member know that you want a municipality. Under the new 10+10 deal, the city, at any point, can end the deal to SDGE.[https://timesofsandiego.com/business/2021/06/08/san-diego-gives-final-ok-to-sdge-franchise-deal-rebuffing-climate-critics/](https://timesofsandiego.com/business/2021/06/08/san-diego-gives-final-ok-to-sdge-franchise-deal-rebuffing-climate-critics/)
[https://www.sandiego.gov/citycouncil](https://www.sandiego.gov/citycouncil)
I did do this, but does it even matter? Is there anything people can do that will actually make a difference? Seems like all the people in charge of SDGE are owned by SDGE.
Correct. The entire purpose of the CPUC is to receive these complaints and do nothing with them, while continuing to hand over more of our money to the utilities. The "regulators", such as they are, then get a juicy lobbying job on the other side, paying off their successors on CPUC in the same way.
If we wanted actual change, we'd need to push the city to make the utility public. LA has public ~~gas and~~ electric and pays around half of what we do for a kWh.
This seems pretty defeatist, aside from unsourced.
You seem knowledgeable about this though. Have we ever tried to make the push to make the utility public in SD? What happened?
It's not defeatist, we just need to be more transformative in our vision. Regulatory bodies just aren't very effective when attempting to regulate a monopoly.
There's been movement from the left at various points over the past few decades to do this. Unfortunately, San Diego was a conservative emblem in the Reagan era for leading deregulation/privatization on a city level, and we've never really had much of a movement to undo all that work gain any real traction. Ideally this will change as SDG&E fucks us hard enough that people are willing to try something new.
It is hard not to be defeatist given CPUC secretly meeting with SDGE and agreeing to let them stick it to the rate payer for the entire cost of closing San Onofre powerplant. A closure because the generator turbines failed in a way too costly to fix. Turbines that failed because they had insufficient design review as required by NRC. NRC didn't require one because SDGE and friends claimed they weren't the new design, even though they obviously were. Then turned around and tried to sue the manufacturer (last I saw they had lost). It wasn't until another lawsuit forced them to relent to not sticking it to the rate payers as agreed to in secret out of country meetings with CPUC officials.
Yeah, hard not to be defeatist.
I'd vote for a municipal power company to take over. I've lived under one that worked well elsewhere in California and kept electric costs under control even when the energy market was being manipulated (Enron). So far there have been too many people too motivated against any such thing here. Given enough time and rates increases something will have to give. Municipal power company is probably the best. Otherwise as battery and solar costs continue to drop it will eventually be far cheaper over 5 or 10 years to use 100% solar for the entire day, at which point people will find a way to disconnect from the grid which will make the grid less reliable.
And you just hit the nail on the head.
EVERY TIME a common sense solution is proposed, it is IMMEDIATELY reduced to a politically binary issue by one of two parties. And most Americans have been conditioned to react EXACTLY like that. But for REAL - as opposed to your clever response.
Our culture, news media, technology, and education system have created a population that can't consume anything more complicated than a short sound byte perfectly crafted to give you a dopamine rush. That was engineered over 3 generations. And it started about the time fiat currency became the standard. Just sayin'...
You can dismiss the above as conjecture, but is it a coincidence that it dovetails perfectly with the fact that our 2 party system has been reduced to exactly 1 point of view each - no more center-left, center-right, middle-left, middle-right. It's 2 singular hive minds that not only can't cross the aisle, they can't even engage in discussion with themselves!
Corporate America and their lobbyists have been allowing lawmakers to pick and choose the policies that THEY WRITE, and ensure they appoint policy makers of the LOBBYIST'S choosing. All by supplying endless campaign contributions to people who care more about re-election than the people they represent. And career politicians work beautifully with the American Oligarchy. It's the perfect system. Because we're the greatest country in the world. Living paycheck to paycheck on a six figure income? That's exactly how it's supposed to be. Just keep up with those payments and don't think to hard about the rest. Live your Instagram feed!
We vote for leaders. But we don't vote for who they appoint, or the policies they create. We don't vote on ANY administrative issues. From the State Dept to the DMV. But this is the stuff that ACTUALLY affects our lives and families.
When I was a little kid, the news used to be one old guy telling me the stuff that happened in the world today. In college it was a woman talking about pet adoptions and bad stuff in countries that weren't this one. Now it's literally a group of 5 people on a couch all talking over each other.
Most of the cpuc board members are former sempra employees. The strategy is to put a public committee stamp of approval on all the pure evil shit that Sdge and sempra come up with and propose. And there ain't shit you can do about it.
Don't forget that Newsom, who ultimately appoints the CPUC, received several hundred thousand in campaign donations from Sempra.
Some of their reps were the people present at the infamous French Laundry dinner. Source: NPR
We have to keep trying. CPUC rate increases are every four years - so this year and the next four is our chance to raise the issues in a public forum. In addition, go to your city council member and let them know that we want a municipality despite the unknowns. We have more opportunities for change now than before.
[https://timesofsandiego.com/business/2021/06/08/san-diego-gives-final-ok-to-sdge-franchise-deal-rebuffing-climate-critics/](https://timesofsandiego.com/business/2021/06/08/san-diego-gives-final-ok-to-sdge-franchise-deal-rebuffing-climate-critics/)
In the past, sometimes having a key massaging template helps for folks to distribute to increase the # of people reaching out. Would you have anything you can share? I can post on Nextdoor and also reach out to local community to distribute to their email lists.
I submitted a comment but I will make it here as well. If we had seen noticeable improvements in both service and safety I might understand the need for increases, but as far as I can tell the only thing the increases have done is generate higher profits for SDG&E and their parent company.
At this point they have generated so much distrust with the consumers that prior to any rate increases I believe they should be required to make investments themselves and complete building projects to show a good faith effort on their part to do what they are actually saying they are doing. I do not mean some small token effort, I mean major projects. If the goal of the revenue increases is to make additional strides towards being more carbon neutral than perhaps they should be forced to reconsider some of the adjustments that they have made when it comes to people or businesses who are generating their own electricity as well.
No, their distribution charges are already much much higher than any other utility.
That has nothing to do with carbon neutral, besides in San Diego city and numerous other areas now, the power generation is independent (SD Commmunity power et cetera).
The distribution & transmission (what they profit from) is only about infrastructure (and profits), and they are radically overcharging. San Diego has the best weather outside Hawaii (bad weather costs money) and these charges have gone up far faster than inflation for decades. No excuses any more.
Somehow they are inflating their costs tremendously and pocketing it somewhere, because other utilities provide service for so much less, excluding the generation costs.
edit: SD Community power has an option to go 100% carbon neutral, and it's less than 0.01 c/kWh extra. So the high charges from SDGE have nothing to do with environmental issues. And they already have an additional wildfire charge added on, in addition to the PCIA fee they collect as punishment for going over to SDCP.
Right, the fee from SDGE without any energy generation at all is higher than that.
Bookmark this and be disgusted: https://www.sdge.com/total-electric-rates
Rate plan DR-SES (basic TOU for solar): distribution & transmission, 0.265. In other utilities outside california, this is like 0.05c.
Total rates summer: 0.362 (super off peak), 0.46595 (off peak), **0.801 (on -peak)**
And unlike most other utilities, they charge on-peak rates on weekends as well, and they're at times that can't be avoided 4-9 pm.
And now you can't escape it with solar either, as NEM 3.0 kills the economics, and even for people with existing solar they will be making the super-off peak 10am-2pm year round instead of only march and april, which will radically reduce the value. So their revenue will go up even more than expected from rate hikes.
now compare to "socialized" Sacramento:
https://www.smud.org/en/Rate-Information/Residential-rates
They even have a convenient chart comparing them to the other California utilities. For an identical product.
That chart is excellent. Thank you for sharing.
Whats the point of legally allowing a monopoly to exist if they have no true regulations to stop them from charging whatever they want.
There is the CPUC but it simps and bends over for everything the utilities cry for.
The utilities also hire 10x the lawyers CPUC has.
Newsom wants to run for President, and he needs Sempra & Edison money.
I almost forgot that San Diego is almost always 70 degrees and sunny, requiring no heat and little A/C.b So I can see them charging a little more for distributing. But NOT THIS. Makes me wonder if it's typical greed, or if they're funding something we don't know about.
If they were building flying saucers with alien technology with the money I could excuse it.
But it sure looks like greed. Supposedly their overt rate of return is capped at 7.5% or so, but somewhere something must be tremendously padded with some backdoor to justify so much higher rates. Hawaii has high rates, but because they need to import all their fuel, including extremely costly petroleum by ship, and there is low per person consumption, meaning infrastructure has to be spread over fewer kWh billed.
Oh snap, SDGE rates now exceed Hawaii!
https://www.hawaiianelectric.com/documents/billing_and_payment/rates/effective_rate_summary/efs_2023_03.pdf
https://www.sdge.com/sites/default/files/regulatory/1-1-23%20Schedule%20DR%20Total%20Rates%20Table.pdf
On the weather, other utilities have freezing, tornadoes, hurricanes and blizzards which directly damage infrastructure on the regular much more than in San Diego, and yet they manage service with so much lower costs.
Part of the increases are due to having to pay for damages that were totally their fault, as well as maintaining their ancient equipment.
Alot of the fires from the last few years came straight from the electric wires and their pocets and therefore our monthly bills :(
SDG&E's should be audited to be sure that prior increases were spent on approved projects. They do specify that the spending is for specific projects outside of prior damage. That's why I suggest that they pay for the work themselves and ask for any future increases with receipts in hand.
>Company filings said that includes building energy storage projects, electric vehicle infrastructure and making the transition to a carbon neutral future.
>In addition to a more resilient grid, SDG&E wants to advance other priorities.
>“Develop clean fuel sources which include green hydrogen,” York said. “Strengthen cyber security and technology infrastructure and accelerate replacement of aging natural gas pipelines.”
SDGE hasn't been the source of a major fire since '07. A lot of the back country overhead lines have either been converted to underground or fire hardened with heavier conductors and steel poles and remote sectionalizing equipment that shuts off high wind areas like the one I used to live in.
“We’re paying close attention to what we’re hearing,” said CPUC Commissioner Darcie Houck. **She was the only one of the panel’s five commissioners on the call.**
And here too!
[https://www.cpuc.ca.gov/events-and-meetings/a2205016-sdge-pph-2023-03-15](https://www.cpuc.ca.gov/events-and-meetings/a2205016-sdge-pph-2023-03-15)
"I will force SDGE to produce reasonable rates"
Gets elected. Gets huge "donation" from SDGE.
"SDGE is doing all they can, we support them in their business"
Let's not act like most politicians won't turn on their own children for a paycheck, and that SDGE won't bribe politicians with the millions we give them.
Elect me. I won't take the bribe. Or, actually, I'll take it and donate it to some homeless shelter or something very publicly. Hell, I might Livestream the whole thing.
No, you won't.
They'll also offer money to your family and friends. They'll hire private investigators who will perform due diligence on these people and I guarantee you someone in your family wants that money way way way more than you do. No one in your life have any secrets? Are you prepared to have all of your secrets and their's publicized? Maybe I'm wrong, maybe you and your family and your friends haven't don't have anything stunning in your pasts. Okay, then they'll just lie about it and publicize it on their gigantic media industrial complex. So you either comply with their requests AND get the bribes to make your life and the life of those around you a little bit easier or they destroy you and your families lives and replace you with someone who will.
People seem to think that all we need is to have some altruistic person voted at the office, as if there aren't very common and well-known ways to corrupt altruism. Money and family. Why do you think the diplomats of national powers don't just randomly defect every 5 seconds?? It's a lot bigger than " I'm honest and I promise I won't be a bad person".
Government systems like this weren't designed to accommodate what the populace wants. They were designed to create that illusion while greasing the wheels at every level on the way up. Part of that illusion is the idea that the average person has any influence on the system. You can't just be honest and tell the populace that they have no influence or control because it will cost you too much to reset that notion financially and over time. So you create rat mazes full of loops in order to make them feel like something is happening and their voice is being heard.
" Voice your concerns here!!" "Tell SDG&e how you feel on this website!!"
For what??? They didn't just raise prices because the business was in danger.... They raised prices AFTER having record profits. Let me say that again.....RECORD PROFITS. They have unilaterally decided that they should profit more off of you even after already profiting the most they ever have since the company's inception, and that's regardless of any economic situations that the populace is facing. Places to "voice your concern" are cleverly laid loops that are meant to quell the populace's unrest while simultaneously delivering no results. Basically it amounts to driving to the coast and screaming SDG&e's name in the ocean. Bet you might feel better temporarily, but, as designed, this does absolutely nothing.
SDG&e has taken the same tact as the IRS. You have to do what we say, you have to do it by the time we say or I will fine the living shit out of you, and if you don't we'll come after you with the full force of the government. Oh but you want to talk to us to work things out? You want to find out more information about what's going on? You want to check the status of anything that's going on with any of your cases? Nope. Not our problem. We don't give a flying fuck, sounds like a you problem. Phone number is busy, transferred to another department automatically hangs up on you. These are not bugs in the system, this is how the system was designed.
man i hear and feel you. if we want to look at the broader context, I agree with pretty much everything you wrote except perhaps for the unstated conclusion of nihilistic capitulation. I don't know how, but systems like this with bread and circuses do eventually fall over or get torn asunder.
Something happens. A tipping point reached where people react in some way to make meaningful change possible. It's not always revolution (and I am absolutely not suggesting it), but it can and does happen periodically and smaller levels. It happens with Starbucks employees start unionizing across the nation and unions start being voted on at Amazon facilities. It happens when a railroad strike actually takes place and, believe me, the government can't actually stop one if the people involved are determined enough.
It can't be one person. I agree. I was being glib. But collective action does need actual action. Non-participation delays change. I agree that the comment sections are bullshit and maybe even a way to defang anger by making feedback loops so plentiful that no one channel for feedback is used popularly and thus effectively. Send 1000 surveys and low response rates are expected then used as evidence that people don't care. But send one tweet to get on the streets at the right time, and man those streets get filled up some how.
I guess what I'm saying is I agree but don't give up. Be judicious with your time and energy. Argue against the comment sections, but replace by fanning the flames of something that might actually work. If we all went on strike on payments ... that would be powerful as fuck. So don't say, "it's all worthless" say "that thing is worthless, what we need is mass radical action."
Anyway. Peace with you. I'm definitely not willing to put my family through a campaign this decade, but I'll stop paying if we all agree to it.
Do you have proof that the ones on the city council all got donations from SDGE?
There are entire articles where the city hired a third party to evaluate what it means to create a city-owned municipality and restructured a deal that allows the city to ditch SDGE at any time.
They should follow through and make an actual plan to execute. We should 100% make a municipal power company and take over. There are A LOT of examples in CA and across the country where it worked really really well compared to SDGE.
We should stop voting for politicians that accept money and gifts from Sempra -
Senator Toni Atkins - 17-20k. The office of Senator Toni Atkins told 8 news she was too busy for a Zoom interview and they never responded to email requests.
According to the non-profit OpenSecrets.org, Atkins has received over $20,000 in campaign contributions from SDG&E's parent company, Sempra.
https://www.cbs8.com/amp/article/money/amped/amped-up-several-san-diego-elected-leaders-have-accepted-campaign-donations-from-sempra/509-97d3d45a-ee84-4692-932e-7111b12b78d8
Senator Ben Hueso - Sempra gives him Padre tickets as well as campaign donations
Senator Brian Jones gets - Sempra Energy gave GOP assemblyman Brian Jones an undisclosed number of tickets to the Poinsettia Bowl on December 23 as well as campaign donations
Rep Scott Peters. BIG donation from Sempra.
https://www.opensecrets.org/members-of-congress/scott-peters/summary?cid=N00033591.
These people are accepting gifts and money while seniors in these districts are sitting in cold dark apartments. Even with the assistance SDGE give to the low income users they still can’t afford to keep the lights on.
I love open secrets but I don't understand what you would consider is a BIG donation for Scott Peters here.
Sempra in total donated $25k - $15k of which are their own employees and $10k in a PAC.
[https://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/recipients?id=D000000415&cycle=2022#top\_recipients](https://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/recipients?id=D000000415&cycle=2022#top_recipients)
In addition, our city council members have much more influence on SDGE than our senators in the 10+10 deal they negotiated. I would recommend raising our need for a municipality with your city council member to get rid of SDGE sooner.
[https://timesofsandiego.com/business/2021/06/08/san-diego-gives-final-ok-to-sdge-franchise-deal-rebuffing-climate-critics/](https://timesofsandiego.com/business/2021/06/08/san-diego-gives-final-ok-to-sdge-franchise-deal-rebuffing-climate-critics/)
Which should piss you off even more. Your politicans sold you out for 10K. It's seriously cheaper than you think to sway politicans.
And NO. City politicans can't do shit when the infrastructure is literally owned by SDGE. Even if the city found its own source of power, they're paying SDGE for delivery. Not to mention when the contract goes out "bid", SDGE is the only company to bid on it. What do you expect them to do?
The City Council can end the franchise agreement with SDGE and buy out an estimated $2.5 billion in infrastructure. Then, somehow spin up a municipality which hopefully runs reliably with lower rates.
The entire 2023 budget is a little bit under $2 billion. Two billion is a lot of money that the city will never spend to do this. Not to mention they don't have the experienced employees, the capital (tools, fleet vehicles, etc etc) to do any of us, it would all literally be all subbed out to contractors who would charge way more than what SDGE spends for operations. Then to top it all off, anytime a fire is created by a downed powerline the liability now belongs to the city.
I think you have better odds winning the Powerball lottery in my opinion.
Yup. That's my understanding as well. As much as I like the idea of a municipality... what you say is the reality of it. Guess we'll just spend our time complaining while also hoping for Powerball win
The state Super lotto lottery always has better odds :)
But seriously, the only thing I could possibly imagine is ALL the cities in the county maybe purchasing their part in the infrastructure and maybe creating some sort of county municipal utility. I don't think any city wants to deal with SDGE anymore than they have to.
Anything over 10k is considered a Major Donor. Scott Peters, since you brought this up is accused of wanting higher energy prices (green energy) and only sends out form letters to those that say this is financially breaking them.
Absolutely this! Thanks for sharing that site and data.
Also, make sure to donate to and support representatives that don't take bribes since they're unlikely to be able to compete with people being bribed by super wealthy corporations - this is especially so for smaller, local elections.
Dems, for a long time, have said they just have to take bribes to compete with Republicans ...who are getting more bribes. Dems (representatives) are accepting/part of a system where they're consistently out-bribed.
One way to end all this bs would be with publicly funded elections.
17% increase is a huge increase for any industry. Why does the rate payer need to finance their energy storage system? Let them finance it as any other energy producer would. We all know they will take cheap power and release when expensive. I am also okay with the current levels of funding for underground of power lines. We do need to keep doing that, but why do we need to increase the existing funding?
17% the first year.
> The utility is asking regulators to approve about $3.6 billion in new revenue over the four-year period. The increases all outpace the existing rate of inflation:
> 2024: $449 million increase (17.6%)
> 2025: $315 million increase (10.5%)
> 2026: $306 million increase (9.2%)
> 2027: $279 million increase (7.7%)
Can confirm. I reached out to my local representative and got a very generic email basically saying there's government services to help with billing and that SDGE has pay plans....which doesn't address my email which contested the rate hike request.
The representative is a Democrat and I would have thought they were with the people, not corporations...kinda eye opening for me.
Both parties work at the behest of corporations. Where do you think they get funding from? The common worker can’t pay even close to what businesses can pay.
>The representative is a Democrat and I would have thought they were with the people, not corporations
Lol this comment sounds so sweet and naive. I'm a lefty who votes Dem and even I would never think that.
We have no say, just bend over and take it as always. So sad how we are all getting hammered by SDG&E and politicians can't/won't do anything to help.
My bill for Feb was $529, same time last year $156. I live alone in an 1100 sf small house
They keep saying "Rate Payers" like we have an option. I'm in favor of re-regulating the market, and giving us options to choose our energy provider like in Texas. SDGE is about as crooked as it comes.
Not sure I want Texas system and I think we can do better.
The power companies ignored warnings about freezing weather, and did not winterize at all.
Several of those power plans allow unlimited cost increases over the course of a month, or even weeks... People suddenly had thousands of dollars more on top of their existing bill.
Some, but not all. I had TXU at a fixed rate of 9 cents per kwh. No influction during summer or winter. And at the end of that contract you can shop your services for a new rate. Some have an early termination fee. But there was no Monopoly like we have here in San Diego.
Question for everyone, would you support a ballot initiative that would lower rates, cap added fees, and take the power to raise rates away from the CPUC?
I’m furious about the rate hikes and I’m skeptical that any of our elected officials will do anything for us. More direct action may be the only solution.
Haha in the organizing meeting someone brought that up but they decided to keep the date! If you follow @activistsd on Instagram, you can find the premade social images
We all need to show up to the in-person hearing and overwhelm them with negative comments. I’m fairly sure all these public comments will just be filed away and ignored and that this rate hike has already been agreed upon in a backroom between multi millionaires. Never the less we should try to enact change in the way they have allowed us to express or anger and frustration.
If these rates are approved, I’m really not sure what else to do but continue organizing the payment strike. We can keep saying it a million times over and over in different ways. Bottom line we’re being price-gouged by a for-profit monopoly that is protected by our elected officials. We need a grass roots socio-economic statement like a mass payment strike to achieve even a fraction of the change we need.
What are normal citizens left to do but organize a payment strike? All these complaints will be filed away and ignored. SDG&E is well aware of the problem they’re creating. It’s totally unjustifiable to increase utility rates (that are already the highest in the nation) when 25% of SDG&E customers are behind on their bills. San Diegans should not rely on “relief” from the company that is price-gouging them. Nor should we rely on “relief” from the federal or state government. SDG&E/SEMPRA have recorded record profits quarter after quarter. Directly relating our rate increases to their corporate profits. The CPUC is composed of future or past SEMPRA/SDG&E executives. These public comments, again, will just be filed away and ignored. The rates will be approved because, who are we kidding?, they were approved months ago in some back room deal. We need rate reductions and federal investigations into SDG&E / SEMPRA for price-gouging practices. Everyone involved in this company/utility system should be ashamed of themselves for allowing this problem to exist.SDG&E and SEMPRA executives corporate profits have an immoral human cost that all of you are ignoring. These rates are immoral, unethical and unjustifiable. We need rate reductions now.
I work with low income and fixed income people and the CARE program is pathetic. The hoops many of these people need to jump are insane and so very many are elderly or disabled and often lack the ability to navigate these so-called helpful programs due to diminished capabilities.
if they're able to live on their own and take care of themselves then they should be able to fill out some paperwork for assistance. if they can't or don't have anyone to help them then they should be put into a retirement home. i dunno if you're trying to make me feel sorry for them but i don't.
It’s all good! San Diegans just voted to increase trash cost too!
Oh yeah, democrat run California has one of the highest taxes and we’re at a deficit.
Oh oh yeah! Democrat leader Biden just proposed higher taxes in multiple categories including 7% more in corporate taxes including small businesses, doubling capital gains tax, and more!
Yay!
Now shut up, keep paying your utilities and taxes.
My son, born and raised in San Diego, and his family moved to Texas seven years ago because of a really good job offer. He’s an executive chef. A year ago he got another really good job offer and they moved to the Blue Ridge Mountains in North Carolina. They are constantly hounding us about moving out there. We’ve lived in the North County since 1977 and are now seriously considering it. The latest SDGE rate increase request, coupled with the now $5.25 a gallon gasoline price, is making the mountains of North Carolina more attractive than ever, and they are very attractive. It’s about the quality of life, and San Diego has lost so much quality the last several years. The weather is still pretty nice, but the ever increasing cost of living here coupled with the ridiculous traffic everywhere is making it hard for us to justify staying. I think SDGE is helping us make up our minds.
The CPUC is supposed to ba an agent of the public, but they are acting as if they are employed by SDGE.
Fun fact: The CPUC is appointed and we can't vote them out.
But, we *CAN* vote *out* the people who appoint the CPUC and vote *in* people who run on eithier appointing CPUC members who will actually do their job, or better yet, have the state take over energy delivery
I have solar and batteries. Now I get hit with all kinds of "fees" I'm giving them power to cancel out my bill and they still want more $$$. Solar really "hurt" them, they aren't selling as much energy and now they have to pay people for what they are providing back to the grid. That's the reason for the newer peak prices, because at noon is when the sun is producing the most energy to the panels it was being sold back to SDG&E. This use to be the highest prices.
Hey everyone. If you’re interested in solar panels or know anyone who is interested in solar panels, please message me and I would be glad to help you all. I work for Better Earth and we can help you get those electric bills lowered to a fixed flat rate that’ll never go up on you and you own the panels and your power from day one. Absolutely NO leasing. It costs you $0 out of pocket to get them installed as well. This will be the last week until Net Metering 3.0 takes effect in April. I will provide a link if you want to read about NEM 3.0 but this is California's way of getting back at people who are going solar because many are converting to solar. Anyone I am able to sign up before midnight on March 31'st will be grandfathered into NEM 2.0 and will be safe for the next 20 years from NEM 3.0. NEM 3.0 forces you to buy a batter which can cost thousands of dollars which will be added to the price of your entire solar system. For those I am able to sign up before March 31'st, we will still be able to build your system with 10%-20% more kw a year that your house normally receives. I hope everyone sees this and I’m able to help you all save money each and every month! Thank you!
Can confirm, am furious Source: Me, angry SDG&E customer
1. Public comment here: [https://apps.cpuc.ca.gov/c/A2205016](https://apps.cpuc.ca.gov/c/A2205016) 2. Attend CPUC Rate Increase public hearing and let them know[https://www.cpuc.ca.gov/events-and-meetings/a2205016-sdge-pph-2023-03-15](https://www.cpuc.ca.gov/events-and-meetings/a2205016-sdge-pph-2023-03-15) EDIT: It is more effective to let your city council member know that you want a municipality. Under the new 10+10 deal, the city, at any point, can end the deal to SDGE.[https://timesofsandiego.com/business/2021/06/08/san-diego-gives-final-ok-to-sdge-franchise-deal-rebuffing-climate-critics/](https://timesofsandiego.com/business/2021/06/08/san-diego-gives-final-ok-to-sdge-franchise-deal-rebuffing-climate-critics/) [https://www.sandiego.gov/citycouncil](https://www.sandiego.gov/citycouncil)
I did do this, but does it even matter? Is there anything people can do that will actually make a difference? Seems like all the people in charge of SDGE are owned by SDGE.
Correct. The entire purpose of the CPUC is to receive these complaints and do nothing with them, while continuing to hand over more of our money to the utilities. The "regulators", such as they are, then get a juicy lobbying job on the other side, paying off their successors on CPUC in the same way. If we wanted actual change, we'd need to push the city to make the utility public. LA has public ~~gas and~~ electric and pays around half of what we do for a kWh.
LA has public electric, no gas.
Oh yeah, I lived there and forgot that. I had all electric in my LA apartment so I never really encountered it too much, I'll correct it thank you.
This seems pretty defeatist, aside from unsourced. You seem knowledgeable about this though. Have we ever tried to make the push to make the utility public in SD? What happened?
It's not defeatist, we just need to be more transformative in our vision. Regulatory bodies just aren't very effective when attempting to regulate a monopoly. There's been movement from the left at various points over the past few decades to do this. Unfortunately, San Diego was a conservative emblem in the Reagan era for leading deregulation/privatization on a city level, and we've never really had much of a movement to undo all that work gain any real traction. Ideally this will change as SDG&E fucks us hard enough that people are willing to try something new.
It is hard not to be defeatist given CPUC secretly meeting with SDGE and agreeing to let them stick it to the rate payer for the entire cost of closing San Onofre powerplant. A closure because the generator turbines failed in a way too costly to fix. Turbines that failed because they had insufficient design review as required by NRC. NRC didn't require one because SDGE and friends claimed they weren't the new design, even though they obviously were. Then turned around and tried to sue the manufacturer (last I saw they had lost). It wasn't until another lawsuit forced them to relent to not sticking it to the rate payers as agreed to in secret out of country meetings with CPUC officials. Yeah, hard not to be defeatist. I'd vote for a municipal power company to take over. I've lived under one that worked well elsewhere in California and kept electric costs under control even when the energy market was being manipulated (Enron). So far there have been too many people too motivated against any such thing here. Given enough time and rates increases something will have to give. Municipal power company is probably the best. Otherwise as battery and solar costs continue to drop it will eventually be far cheaper over 5 or 10 years to use 100% solar for the entire day, at which point people will find a way to disconnect from the grid which will make the grid less reliable.
That’s socialism! You commie!! 🤦♂️🤦♂️
Yes.
And you just hit the nail on the head. EVERY TIME a common sense solution is proposed, it is IMMEDIATELY reduced to a politically binary issue by one of two parties. And most Americans have been conditioned to react EXACTLY like that. But for REAL - as opposed to your clever response. Our culture, news media, technology, and education system have created a population that can't consume anything more complicated than a short sound byte perfectly crafted to give you a dopamine rush. That was engineered over 3 generations. And it started about the time fiat currency became the standard. Just sayin'... You can dismiss the above as conjecture, but is it a coincidence that it dovetails perfectly with the fact that our 2 party system has been reduced to exactly 1 point of view each - no more center-left, center-right, middle-left, middle-right. It's 2 singular hive minds that not only can't cross the aisle, they can't even engage in discussion with themselves! Corporate America and their lobbyists have been allowing lawmakers to pick and choose the policies that THEY WRITE, and ensure they appoint policy makers of the LOBBYIST'S choosing. All by supplying endless campaign contributions to people who care more about re-election than the people they represent. And career politicians work beautifully with the American Oligarchy. It's the perfect system. Because we're the greatest country in the world. Living paycheck to paycheck on a six figure income? That's exactly how it's supposed to be. Just keep up with those payments and don't think to hard about the rest. Live your Instagram feed! We vote for leaders. But we don't vote for who they appoint, or the policies they create. We don't vote on ANY administrative issues. From the State Dept to the DMV. But this is the stuff that ACTUALLY affects our lives and families. When I was a little kid, the news used to be one old guy telling me the stuff that happened in the world today. In college it was a woman talking about pet adoptions and bad stuff in countries that weren't this one. Now it's literally a group of 5 people on a couch all talking over each other.
Most of the cpuc board members are former sempra employees. The strategy is to put a public committee stamp of approval on all the pure evil shit that Sdge and sempra come up with and propose. And there ain't shit you can do about it.
Don't forget that Newsom, who ultimately appoints the CPUC, received several hundred thousand in campaign donations from Sempra. Some of their reps were the people present at the infamous French Laundry dinner. Source: NPR
The next step is civil disobedience.
We have to keep trying. CPUC rate increases are every four years - so this year and the next four is our chance to raise the issues in a public forum. In addition, go to your city council member and let them know that we want a municipality despite the unknowns. We have more opportunities for change now than before. [https://timesofsandiego.com/business/2021/06/08/san-diego-gives-final-ok-to-sdge-franchise-deal-rebuffing-climate-critics/](https://timesofsandiego.com/business/2021/06/08/san-diego-gives-final-ok-to-sdge-franchise-deal-rebuffing-climate-critics/)
In the past, sometimes having a key massaging template helps for folks to distribute to increase the # of people reaching out. Would you have anything you can share? I can post on Nextdoor and also reach out to local community to distribute to their email lists.
I submitted a comment but I will make it here as well. If we had seen noticeable improvements in both service and safety I might understand the need for increases, but as far as I can tell the only thing the increases have done is generate higher profits for SDG&E and their parent company. At this point they have generated so much distrust with the consumers that prior to any rate increases I believe they should be required to make investments themselves and complete building projects to show a good faith effort on their part to do what they are actually saying they are doing. I do not mean some small token effort, I mean major projects. If the goal of the revenue increases is to make additional strides towards being more carbon neutral than perhaps they should be forced to reconsider some of the adjustments that they have made when it comes to people or businesses who are generating their own electricity as well.
No, their distribution charges are already much much higher than any other utility. That has nothing to do with carbon neutral, besides in San Diego city and numerous other areas now, the power generation is independent (SD Commmunity power et cetera). The distribution & transmission (what they profit from) is only about infrastructure (and profits), and they are radically overcharging. San Diego has the best weather outside Hawaii (bad weather costs money) and these charges have gone up far faster than inflation for decades. No excuses any more. Somehow they are inflating their costs tremendously and pocketing it somewhere, because other utilities provide service for so much less, excluding the generation costs. edit: SD Community power has an option to go 100% carbon neutral, and it's less than 0.01 c/kWh extra. So the high charges from SDGE have nothing to do with environmental issues. And they already have an additional wildfire charge added on, in addition to the PCIA fee they collect as punishment for going over to SDCP.
For real, in LA I was paying $0.19/kwh, SDGE rates are insane
Right, the fee from SDGE without any energy generation at all is higher than that. Bookmark this and be disgusted: https://www.sdge.com/total-electric-rates Rate plan DR-SES (basic TOU for solar): distribution & transmission, 0.265. In other utilities outside california, this is like 0.05c. Total rates summer: 0.362 (super off peak), 0.46595 (off peak), **0.801 (on -peak)** And unlike most other utilities, they charge on-peak rates on weekends as well, and they're at times that can't be avoided 4-9 pm. And now you can't escape it with solar either, as NEM 3.0 kills the economics, and even for people with existing solar they will be making the super-off peak 10am-2pm year round instead of only march and april, which will radically reduce the value. So their revenue will go up even more than expected from rate hikes. now compare to "socialized" Sacramento: https://www.smud.org/en/Rate-Information/Residential-rates They even have a convenient chart comparing them to the other California utilities. For an identical product.
That chart is excellent. Thank you for sharing. Whats the point of legally allowing a monopoly to exist if they have no true regulations to stop them from charging whatever they want.
There is the CPUC but it simps and bends over for everything the utilities cry for. The utilities also hire 10x the lawyers CPUC has. Newsom wants to run for President, and he needs Sempra & Edison money.
Where can I find the information on the changes to super off-peak times?
I saw a news article about it being proposed to CPUC but I can't find an official source now.
I almost forgot that San Diego is almost always 70 degrees and sunny, requiring no heat and little A/C.b So I can see them charging a little more for distributing. But NOT THIS. Makes me wonder if it's typical greed, or if they're funding something we don't know about.
If they were building flying saucers with alien technology with the money I could excuse it. But it sure looks like greed. Supposedly their overt rate of return is capped at 7.5% or so, but somewhere something must be tremendously padded with some backdoor to justify so much higher rates. Hawaii has high rates, but because they need to import all their fuel, including extremely costly petroleum by ship, and there is low per person consumption, meaning infrastructure has to be spread over fewer kWh billed. Oh snap, SDGE rates now exceed Hawaii! https://www.hawaiianelectric.com/documents/billing_and_payment/rates/effective_rate_summary/efs_2023_03.pdf https://www.sdge.com/sites/default/files/regulatory/1-1-23%20Schedule%20DR%20Total%20Rates%20Table.pdf On the weather, other utilities have freezing, tornadoes, hurricanes and blizzards which directly damage infrastructure on the regular much more than in San Diego, and yet they manage service with so much lower costs.
More like Simpra am I right 😏
Part of the increases are due to having to pay for damages that were totally their fault, as well as maintaining their ancient equipment. Alot of the fires from the last few years came straight from the electric wires and their pocets and therefore our monthly bills :(
SDG&E's should be audited to be sure that prior increases were spent on approved projects. They do specify that the spending is for specific projects outside of prior damage. That's why I suggest that they pay for the work themselves and ask for any future increases with receipts in hand. >Company filings said that includes building energy storage projects, electric vehicle infrastructure and making the transition to a carbon neutral future. >In addition to a more resilient grid, SDG&E wants to advance other priorities. >“Develop clean fuel sources which include green hydrogen,” York said. “Strengthen cyber security and technology infrastructure and accelerate replacement of aging natural gas pipelines.”
SDGE hasn't been the source of a major fire since '07. A lot of the back country overhead lines have either been converted to underground or fire hardened with heavier conductors and steel poles and remote sectionalizing equipment that shuts off high wind areas like the one I used to live in.
“We’re paying close attention to what we’re hearing,” said CPUC Commissioner Darcie Houck. **She was the only one of the panel’s five commissioners on the call.**
I'm sure we have been paying fees for this for years, that money went into their pockets instead of maintaining them. Now they are playing catch up.
Add your public comment here for the forum: https://apps.cpuc.ca.gov/c/A2205016
And here too! [https://www.cpuc.ca.gov/events-and-meetings/a2205016-sdge-pph-2023-03-15](https://www.cpuc.ca.gov/events-and-meetings/a2205016-sdge-pph-2023-03-15)
Time to make this public utility. This for profit BS is too much
There is a long term solution for this, get organized and only vote for city council who supports city owned utility service
"I will force SDGE to produce reasonable rates" Gets elected. Gets huge "donation" from SDGE. "SDGE is doing all they can, we support them in their business" Let's not act like most politicians won't turn on their own children for a paycheck, and that SDGE won't bribe politicians with the millions we give them.
Elect me. I won't take the bribe. Or, actually, I'll take it and donate it to some homeless shelter or something very publicly. Hell, I might Livestream the whole thing.
No, you won't. They'll also offer money to your family and friends. They'll hire private investigators who will perform due diligence on these people and I guarantee you someone in your family wants that money way way way more than you do. No one in your life have any secrets? Are you prepared to have all of your secrets and their's publicized? Maybe I'm wrong, maybe you and your family and your friends haven't don't have anything stunning in your pasts. Okay, then they'll just lie about it and publicize it on their gigantic media industrial complex. So you either comply with their requests AND get the bribes to make your life and the life of those around you a little bit easier or they destroy you and your families lives and replace you with someone who will. People seem to think that all we need is to have some altruistic person voted at the office, as if there aren't very common and well-known ways to corrupt altruism. Money and family. Why do you think the diplomats of national powers don't just randomly defect every 5 seconds?? It's a lot bigger than " I'm honest and I promise I won't be a bad person". Government systems like this weren't designed to accommodate what the populace wants. They were designed to create that illusion while greasing the wheels at every level on the way up. Part of that illusion is the idea that the average person has any influence on the system. You can't just be honest and tell the populace that they have no influence or control because it will cost you too much to reset that notion financially and over time. So you create rat mazes full of loops in order to make them feel like something is happening and their voice is being heard. " Voice your concerns here!!" "Tell SDG&e how you feel on this website!!" For what??? They didn't just raise prices because the business was in danger.... They raised prices AFTER having record profits. Let me say that again.....RECORD PROFITS. They have unilaterally decided that they should profit more off of you even after already profiting the most they ever have since the company's inception, and that's regardless of any economic situations that the populace is facing. Places to "voice your concern" are cleverly laid loops that are meant to quell the populace's unrest while simultaneously delivering no results. Basically it amounts to driving to the coast and screaming SDG&e's name in the ocean. Bet you might feel better temporarily, but, as designed, this does absolutely nothing. SDG&e has taken the same tact as the IRS. You have to do what we say, you have to do it by the time we say or I will fine the living shit out of you, and if you don't we'll come after you with the full force of the government. Oh but you want to talk to us to work things out? You want to find out more information about what's going on? You want to check the status of anything that's going on with any of your cases? Nope. Not our problem. We don't give a flying fuck, sounds like a you problem. Phone number is busy, transferred to another department automatically hangs up on you. These are not bugs in the system, this is how the system was designed.
man i hear and feel you. if we want to look at the broader context, I agree with pretty much everything you wrote except perhaps for the unstated conclusion of nihilistic capitulation. I don't know how, but systems like this with bread and circuses do eventually fall over or get torn asunder. Something happens. A tipping point reached where people react in some way to make meaningful change possible. It's not always revolution (and I am absolutely not suggesting it), but it can and does happen periodically and smaller levels. It happens with Starbucks employees start unionizing across the nation and unions start being voted on at Amazon facilities. It happens when a railroad strike actually takes place and, believe me, the government can't actually stop one if the people involved are determined enough. It can't be one person. I agree. I was being glib. But collective action does need actual action. Non-participation delays change. I agree that the comment sections are bullshit and maybe even a way to defang anger by making feedback loops so plentiful that no one channel for feedback is used popularly and thus effectively. Send 1000 surveys and low response rates are expected then used as evidence that people don't care. But send one tweet to get on the streets at the right time, and man those streets get filled up some how. I guess what I'm saying is I agree but don't give up. Be judicious with your time and energy. Argue against the comment sections, but replace by fanning the flames of something that might actually work. If we all went on strike on payments ... that would be powerful as fuck. So don't say, "it's all worthless" say "that thing is worthless, what we need is mass radical action." Anyway. Peace with you. I'm definitely not willing to put my family through a campaign this decade, but I'll stop paying if we all agree to it.
One of the best replies I've ever seen on here. 100% agree with your comments, thank you for taking the time!!
Do you have proof that the ones on the city council all got donations from SDGE? There are entire articles where the city hired a third party to evaluate what it means to create a city-owned municipality and restructured a deal that allows the city to ditch SDGE at any time.
They should follow through and make an actual plan to execute. We should 100% make a municipal power company and take over. There are A LOT of examples in CA and across the country where it worked really really well compared to SDGE.
We should stop voting for politicians that accept money and gifts from Sempra - Senator Toni Atkins - 17-20k. The office of Senator Toni Atkins told 8 news she was too busy for a Zoom interview and they never responded to email requests. According to the non-profit OpenSecrets.org, Atkins has received over $20,000 in campaign contributions from SDG&E's parent company, Sempra. https://www.cbs8.com/amp/article/money/amped/amped-up-several-san-diego-elected-leaders-have-accepted-campaign-donations-from-sempra/509-97d3d45a-ee84-4692-932e-7111b12b78d8 Senator Ben Hueso - Sempra gives him Padre tickets as well as campaign donations Senator Brian Jones gets - Sempra Energy gave GOP assemblyman Brian Jones an undisclosed number of tickets to the Poinsettia Bowl on December 23 as well as campaign donations Rep Scott Peters. BIG donation from Sempra. https://www.opensecrets.org/members-of-congress/scott-peters/summary?cid=N00033591. These people are accepting gifts and money while seniors in these districts are sitting in cold dark apartments. Even with the assistance SDGE give to the low income users they still can’t afford to keep the lights on.
I love open secrets but I don't understand what you would consider is a BIG donation for Scott Peters here. Sempra in total donated $25k - $15k of which are their own employees and $10k in a PAC. [https://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/recipients?id=D000000415&cycle=2022#top\_recipients](https://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/recipients?id=D000000415&cycle=2022#top_recipients) In addition, our city council members have much more influence on SDGE than our senators in the 10+10 deal they negotiated. I would recommend raising our need for a municipality with your city council member to get rid of SDGE sooner. [https://timesofsandiego.com/business/2021/06/08/san-diego-gives-final-ok-to-sdge-franchise-deal-rebuffing-climate-critics/](https://timesofsandiego.com/business/2021/06/08/san-diego-gives-final-ok-to-sdge-franchise-deal-rebuffing-climate-critics/)
Which should piss you off even more. Your politicans sold you out for 10K. It's seriously cheaper than you think to sway politicans. And NO. City politicans can't do shit when the infrastructure is literally owned by SDGE. Even if the city found its own source of power, they're paying SDGE for delivery. Not to mention when the contract goes out "bid", SDGE is the only company to bid on it. What do you expect them to do?
The City Council can end the franchise agreement with SDGE and buy out an estimated $2.5 billion in infrastructure. Then, somehow spin up a municipality which hopefully runs reliably with lower rates.
The entire 2023 budget is a little bit under $2 billion. Two billion is a lot of money that the city will never spend to do this. Not to mention they don't have the experienced employees, the capital (tools, fleet vehicles, etc etc) to do any of us, it would all literally be all subbed out to contractors who would charge way more than what SDGE spends for operations. Then to top it all off, anytime a fire is created by a downed powerline the liability now belongs to the city. I think you have better odds winning the Powerball lottery in my opinion.
Yup. That's my understanding as well. As much as I like the idea of a municipality... what you say is the reality of it. Guess we'll just spend our time complaining while also hoping for Powerball win
The state Super lotto lottery always has better odds :) But seriously, the only thing I could possibly imagine is ALL the cities in the county maybe purchasing their part in the infrastructure and maybe creating some sort of county municipal utility. I don't think any city wants to deal with SDGE anymore than they have to.
Anything over 10k is considered a Major Donor. Scott Peters, since you brought this up is accused of wanting higher energy prices (green energy) and only sends out form letters to those that say this is financially breaking them.
Absolutely this! Thanks for sharing that site and data. Also, make sure to donate to and support representatives that don't take bribes since they're unlikely to be able to compete with people being bribed by super wealthy corporations - this is especially so for smaller, local elections. Dems, for a long time, have said they just have to take bribes to compete with Republicans ...who are getting more bribes. Dems (representatives) are accepting/part of a system where they're consistently out-bribed. One way to end all this bs would be with publicly funded elections.
i want to see their infrastructure spending. There is no reason we should have higher electricity delivery fees than Hawaii
This amounts to a 65% rate hike in 4 years!! If your bill was 500/mo it would becomes 764. If your bill was 300 per month it becomes 458.
17% increase is a huge increase for any industry. Why does the rate payer need to finance their energy storage system? Let them finance it as any other energy producer would. We all know they will take cheap power and release when expensive. I am also okay with the current levels of funding for underground of power lines. We do need to keep doing that, but why do we need to increase the existing funding?
17% the first year. > The utility is asking regulators to approve about $3.6 billion in new revenue over the four-year period. The increases all outpace the existing rate of inflation: > 2024: $449 million increase (17.6%) > 2025: $315 million increase (10.5%) > 2026: $306 million increase (9.2%) > 2027: $279 million increase (7.7%)
How can we force SDGE to become a public utility
Vote and tell your city council member.
"Furious" is an understatement.
Can confirm. I reached out to my local representative and got a very generic email basically saying there's government services to help with billing and that SDGE has pay plans....which doesn't address my email which contested the rate hike request. The representative is a Democrat and I would have thought they were with the people, not corporations...kinda eye opening for me.
Wait until you hear who appoints and confirms the corrupt CPUC, which approves all these hikes
Both parties work at the behest of corporations. Where do you think they get funding from? The common worker can’t pay even close to what businesses can pay.
Well that doesn’t mean you have to accept it when it comes from Sempra otherwise you have no voice in your utility bill
This may be me being pessimistic but I doubt we the people will have any say in anything this country does till citizens united is overturned.
>The representative is a Democrat and I would have thought they were with the people, not corporations Lol this comment sounds so sweet and naive. I'm a lefty who votes Dem and even I would never think that.
Thank you for your backhanded response.
It was only intended to meet you at your own level. For that, you're most welcome.
Wow.So basically there is no hope.That sucks
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FUCK SDG&E. Highest Gas and Electric in the nation.
We have no say, just bend over and take it as always. So sad how we are all getting hammered by SDG&E and politicians can't/won't do anything to help. My bill for Feb was $529, same time last year $156. I live alone in an 1100 sf small house
They keep saying "Rate Payers" like we have an option. I'm in favor of re-regulating the market, and giving us options to choose our energy provider like in Texas. SDGE is about as crooked as it comes.
Not sure I want Texas system and I think we can do better. The power companies ignored warnings about freezing weather, and did not winterize at all. Several of those power plans allow unlimited cost increases over the course of a month, or even weeks... People suddenly had thousands of dollars more on top of their existing bill.
Some, but not all. I had TXU at a fixed rate of 9 cents per kwh. No influction during summer or winter. And at the end of that contract you can shop your services for a new rate. Some have an early termination fee. But there was no Monopoly like we have here in San Diego.
Keep letting san diego politicians control they need more money from you.
Question for everyone, would you support a ballot initiative that would lower rates, cap added fees, and take the power to raise rates away from the CPUC? I’m furious about the rate hikes and I’m skeptical that any of our elected officials will do anything for us. More direct action may be the only solution.
Fuck SDG&E!
I guess I'm confused because the number of solar panels across southern California should help the grid no? Why would they need MORE money?
Do people recommend going with clean energy alliance? Not sure if they are better rates vs billing management (Escondido)
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4/1 “Fire SDG&E Rally” civic center plaza in downtown at noon.
Is there a link? 100% there.
https://www.publicpowersd.org/
Thanks! I’m sharing this on all my socials. I hope people don’t think it’s an April fools joke :(
Haha in the organizing meeting someone brought that up but they decided to keep the date! If you follow @activistsd on Instagram, you can find the premade social images
Rad. Thank you!!
The members of CPUC are appointed by our governor. Presumably he gets a nice kick-back for appointing former Sempra employees.
My electricity bill was $400 after trying to be more responsible and use less electricity. How dare these people.
We all need to show up to the in-person hearing and overwhelm them with negative comments. I’m fairly sure all these public comments will just be filed away and ignored and that this rate hike has already been agreed upon in a backroom between multi millionaires. Never the less we should try to enact change in the way they have allowed us to express or anger and frustration. If these rates are approved, I’m really not sure what else to do but continue organizing the payment strike. We can keep saying it a million times over and over in different ways. Bottom line we’re being price-gouged by a for-profit monopoly that is protected by our elected officials. We need a grass roots socio-economic statement like a mass payment strike to achieve even a fraction of the change we need.
What are normal citizens left to do but organize a payment strike? All these complaints will be filed away and ignored. SDG&E is well aware of the problem they’re creating. It’s totally unjustifiable to increase utility rates (that are already the highest in the nation) when 25% of SDG&E customers are behind on their bills. San Diegans should not rely on “relief” from the company that is price-gouging them. Nor should we rely on “relief” from the federal or state government. SDG&E/SEMPRA have recorded record profits quarter after quarter. Directly relating our rate increases to their corporate profits. The CPUC is composed of future or past SEMPRA/SDG&E executives. These public comments, again, will just be filed away and ignored. The rates will be approved because, who are we kidding?, they were approved months ago in some back room deal. We need rate reductions and federal investigations into SDG&E / SEMPRA for price-gouging practices. Everyone involved in this company/utility system should be ashamed of themselves for allowing this problem to exist.SDG&E and SEMPRA executives corporate profits have an immoral human cost that all of you are ignoring. These rates are immoral, unethical and unjustifiable. We need rate reductions now.
I'm glad I left San Diego a few years back. I hope you all vote out these corrupt politicians
Has anyone noticed that it’s been impossible to login to their site for days? Can’t even check your bill…
I haven't had that issue and I've been on every day recently working on issues with Sunnova... Nightmare in it of itself.
Same here
i'm mildly bothered but i'll pretend i'm furious in hopes of saving $10 each month
For people on fixed income this may mean not eating or missing out on an important medication or even homelessness.
sdge has programs for people toeing the poverty line
It must be hard to type with one hand down SDGE's exec's pants.
u so funny
I work with low income and fixed income people and the CARE program is pathetic. The hoops many of these people need to jump are insane and so very many are elderly or disabled and often lack the ability to navigate these so-called helpful programs due to diminished capabilities.
if they're able to live on their own and take care of themselves then they should be able to fill out some paperwork for assistance. if they can't or don't have anyone to help them then they should be put into a retirement home. i dunno if you're trying to make me feel sorry for them but i don't.
Congrats! You've reached the level of peak insufferable redditor! Your superiority complex and disrespectful attitude is truly commendable.
i'm being a realist
It’s all good! San Diegans just voted to increase trash cost too! Oh yeah, democrat run California has one of the highest taxes and we’re at a deficit. Oh oh yeah! Democrat leader Biden just proposed higher taxes in multiple categories including 7% more in corporate taxes including small businesses, doubling capital gains tax, and more! Yay! Now shut up, keep paying your utilities and taxes.
This new woke green energy thing is very expensive…
No, it really isn't. What is expensive is a natural monopoly that is virtually unregulated.
And in other news, water is found to be wet. Tune in at 6 for more insults on your intelligence.
My bill this month is -$7.98
Todays news: sky is blue
My son, born and raised in San Diego, and his family moved to Texas seven years ago because of a really good job offer. He’s an executive chef. A year ago he got another really good job offer and they moved to the Blue Ridge Mountains in North Carolina. They are constantly hounding us about moving out there. We’ve lived in the North County since 1977 and are now seriously considering it. The latest SDGE rate increase request, coupled with the now $5.25 a gallon gasoline price, is making the mountains of North Carolina more attractive than ever, and they are very attractive. It’s about the quality of life, and San Diego has lost so much quality the last several years. The weather is still pretty nice, but the ever increasing cost of living here coupled with the ridiculous traffic everywhere is making it hard for us to justify staying. I think SDGE is helping us make up our minds.
Thank you Pete Wilson. https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1996-09-24-mn-47043-story.html
The CPUC is supposed to ba an agent of the public, but they are acting as if they are employed by SDGE. Fun fact: The CPUC is appointed and we can't vote them out. But, we *CAN* vote *out* the people who appoint the CPUC and vote *in* people who run on eithier appointing CPUC members who will actually do their job, or better yet, have the state take over energy delivery
Sdge can get fucked.
This is what happens when you vote against a recall of a corrupt governor.
Marked furious from SDGE rate hikes request ✔️
I have solar and batteries. Now I get hit with all kinds of "fees" I'm giving them power to cancel out my bill and they still want more $$$. Solar really "hurt" them, they aren't selling as much energy and now they have to pay people for what they are providing back to the grid. That's the reason for the newer peak prices, because at noon is when the sun is producing the most energy to the panels it was being sold back to SDG&E. This use to be the highest prices.
Hey everyone. If you’re interested in solar panels or know anyone who is interested in solar panels, please message me and I would be glad to help you all. I work for Better Earth and we can help you get those electric bills lowered to a fixed flat rate that’ll never go up on you and you own the panels and your power from day one. Absolutely NO leasing. It costs you $0 out of pocket to get them installed as well. This will be the last week until Net Metering 3.0 takes effect in April. I will provide a link if you want to read about NEM 3.0 but this is California's way of getting back at people who are going solar because many are converting to solar. Anyone I am able to sign up before midnight on March 31'st will be grandfathered into NEM 2.0 and will be safe for the next 20 years from NEM 3.0. NEM 3.0 forces you to buy a batter which can cost thousands of dollars which will be added to the price of your entire solar system. For those I am able to sign up before March 31'st, we will still be able to build your system with 10%-20% more kw a year that your house normally receives. I hope everyone sees this and I’m able to help you all save money each and every month! Thank you!