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Utility rate increases approved in recent years are emerging as a key political issue in Wisconsin, as rising household energy costs intersect with regulatory decisions, long-term infrastructure investments and the run-up to the 2026 elections.
Sorry Virginia, No help for high utility rates in California till next year.
Sorry Virginia, No help for high utility rates in California till next year. In Southern California your electric bill is based on not only how much you use, but when you use it. SoCal utility company Southern California Edison (SCE) charges its customers more for energy use during ‘peak hours’ with its “Time of Use” pricing system. Customers pay higher rates if they use electricity during…
Sorry Virginia, No help for high utility rates in California till next year.
Sorry Virginia, No help for high utility rates in California till next year. In Southern California your electric bill is based on not only how much you use, but when you use it. SoCal utility company Southern California Edison (SCE) charges its customers more for energy use during ‘peak hours’ with its “Time of Use” pricing system. Customers pay higher rates if they use electricity during…
Utility concerns discussed at Gautier City Council meeting
Utility concerns discussed at Gautier City Council meeting
Things got heated at a regular scheduled Gautier City Council meeting tonight.
Gautier Appointed Representative to the Jackson County Utility Authority Marshall Smith found himself in hot water after the city discovered a soaring utility rate over the years.
Tonight, board members highlighted that in just a year the annual rate increased 11.3% where the utility usage only increased three percent.
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Utility rates are about to skyrocket
The typical rate increase is not what you expected and the reason why is definitively not what you expected.
In the next five years we are going to transition from an fossil fuel (oil based) economy into utility grid economy.
No longer will you fill your car up at the gas station. You will, in the near future, charge your car at home.
...And guess, do you know what your home is connected to? Yes, it's the 100 year old the energy grid. And we all know how much we hate the utility company.
This is going to cause a massive increase in utility rates. The main driver of rate increases is and will continue to be maintenance. (It's not inflation although that's a factor).
Unfortunately, the utility companies are going to have to upgrade the infrastructure by magnitude that is not yet conceivable and the State Utility Commissions will approve the increases.
So what does this all mean? Go solar now.
A divided State Corporation Commission ruled Friday that the General Assembly did not overstep its constitutional authority by temporarily prohibiting state regulators from reviewing the rates power companies charge their customers.
In a 2-1 order, the SCC rejected a challenge brought by a consortium of utility customers who argued the legislature essentially stripped regulators of a power granted to them by the state constitution. The three-member commission found that the General Assembly can suspend the SCC’s regulatory reviews due to constitutional language allowing the legislature to issue “criteria and other requirements” for the regulation of utility rates.
SCC Commissioner James C. Dimitri dissented, arguing that language should not be interpreted so broadly as to allow the General Assembly to take regulatory power away from a state agency.
“Dominion is pleased with the result and customers will be the beneficiaries,” spokesman David Botkins said.
______________________________________________ Click on the headline to read the full story. ~ Richmond Times-Dispatch
New Post has been published on Citizensjournal.us
New Post has been published on http://citizensjournal.us/former-oxnard-finance-director-points-out-inequitable-utility-rates/
Former Oxnard Finance Director points out inequitable utility rates
By Phil Molina
Editor’s note: We published this letter from Mr. Molina to Oxnard officials and “friends” just as we received it.
Friends, Mayor, Councilpersons and staff:
How much do you like Oxnard? How fairly, equitably and justly do you feel Oxnard treats you? Do you like subsidizing the poor? Do you like paying taxes so others can be on welfare?
Well I attended the Oxnard Utilities RatePayers Advisory Panel meeting on Wednesday. At the end of a dreary meeting pointing out all the shortfalls resulting from the last 17 years of Ed Sotelo and Tom Holden’s reign of greed and destruction, we were asked to consider establishing policies for setting the increasing utility rates for all three city utilities.
The meeting was both dreary and informative. At one point a top executive manager acknowledged that the city’s current variable rate structure violates Prop 218 in that it does not represent actual tiered costs in the development of the variable rate structure.
So I took a bit of time to see how much the tiered variable rates might violate the concept of equity, equal treatment under the law, and a violation of California Constitution XIII (California Court of Appeal Holds City’s Tiered Water Rate Structure Violates Proposition 218, But City May Charge Potable Customers for the Costs of Developing Alternative Supply Projects, Such as Recycled Water: “ In an opinion anxiously awaited by many water agencies throughout California, the Fourth District Court of Appeal, Division Three, ruled on Monday that a city’s inclining, tiered block rate structure violated Proposition 218’s proportionality requirements (California Constitution, article XIII D, section 6).
Shown below is the amount ANYONE living in a single family residence in Oxnard ACTUALLY SUBSIDIZE the Oxnard business community for the water they use.
Wow if you live in a single family residential unit you subsidize local businesses from $656.00- $1,452.00 per year ($121 x 12) by paying more based on an unjust premium rate for your water. Wait a minute……those aren’t the poor being subsidized…..those are us, poor people, subsidizing the rich businesses including HAAS, and Procter & Gamble. WHY?
assume a single family residential used 40 HCF of water /month How much would that single family pay compared to multi family, commercial, ocean view agricultural? amount single family resident subsidizes business single family rates HCF/month 0-6 7-12 over 12 totals 0-6 $ 2.84 $ 17.04 $ 17.04 7-12 $ 3.15 $ 15.75 $ 15.75 over 12 $ 4.42 $ 128.18 $ 128.18 $ 160.97 $ – multi fam residents 0-17 $ 2.32 $ 39.44 $ 39.44 18-32 $ 2.58 $ 67.08 $ 67.08 over 32 $ 3.84 $ 34.56 $ 34.56 $ 141.08 $ 19.89 comm/indust/landscape 0-17 $ 2.32 $ 39.44 $ 39.44 18-32 $ 2.58 $ 36.12 $ 36.12 over 32 $ 3.84 $ 30.72 $ 30.72 $ 106.28 $ 54.69 ocean view ag 0-17 $ 1.01 $ 17.17 $ 17.17 18-32 $ 1.01 $ 14.14 $ 14.14 0ver 32 $ 1.01 $ 8.08 $ 8.08 $ 39.39 $ 121.58
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Phil Molina is an Oxnard resident, former Oxnard Finance Director and “whistleblower,” who exposed alleged corruption, and was fired. He sued and won a large award, after many years of litigation.
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RICHMOND Dominion Resources Inc. will no longer add the cost of some charitable donations to customers' electric bills.
Dominion Resources Inc. will no longer add the cost of some charitable donations to customers' electric bills.
The energy giant, which owns the state's largest electric utility, said in a recent regulatory filing with the Virginia State Corporation Commission that it won't try to recover more than $2 million related to the company's charitable contributions from 2013 and 2014. Spokesman David Botkins said Thursday the company will not seek to include charitable giving in customers' bills in future years either.
The Associated Press reported last month that Dominion's customers have been billed tens of thousands of dollars to pay for part of donations to politically connected charities. Those donations include a $40,000 gift to a tort reform group that pushed for business-friendly legislation with the help of a longtime Dominion lobbyist and a $10,000 payment to a college that was solicited by a powerful state lawmaker who is also the school's paid fundraiser.
Dominion Virginia Power President Paul Koonce said in filed testimony that the company's rate-payer-subsidized charitable giving amounts to less than a penny a month on a typical residential customer's bill and accounts for a small percent of the company's overall charitable giving.
Click on the headline to read the full story. ~ The Virginian-Pilot
