based on household income for the three big investor-owned utilities to help pay for delivery costs including poles, wires, energy efficiency subsidies and wildfire mitigation, while lowering consumption-based rates.I love my electric car, but after more than three years I’m thinking of trading it in for a fossil-fueled model because even in California it’s not easy being a green motorist.
Earlier this month the utilities, consumer advocates, environmental groups and others each submitted proposals for how the new fixed-charge system should be designed. The utilities want higher fixed charges to cover more of their infrastructure and administrative costs. Southern California Edison’s proposal, for example, has low-income customers paying between $15 and $20 a month on top of their usage.
The investor-owned utilities’ use of fixed charges had been capped out of a well-founded concern that assessing an across-the-board fee would discriminate against low-income customers who use less electricity. Climate change necessitated a move from focusing solely on energy conservation to shifting from fossil fuels to electricity generated from wind, solar and other clean, renewable sources.
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