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PUC approves big changes in state's electricity rate system
2015-07-03 21:38:40| Energy - Topix.net
State regulators brushed aside pleas by low-income residents in the Bay Area to shield them from painful rate increases for electricity and approved on Friday an array of far-reaching changes for how much people pay for power in California, including PG&E's customers. The new system is expected to raise rates for low-usage and low-income customers, and potentially reduce rates for the highest-usage customers.
PUC reform bills too little, too late: Thomas Elias
2015-07-03 03:44:29| Energy - Topix.net
It's the same with the state Public Utilities Commission these days as with almost everything else: by the time state legislators notice something is a problem, things are so bad, so extreme, that other people and agencies have already acted. Just now, almost six months after state and federal investigators executed search warrants on the homes of former PUC President Michael Peevey and a since-fired Pacific Gas & Electric Co.
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PUC floats new electricity rate plan, proposal is blasted
2015-07-02 06:45:00| Energy - Topix.net
Residential customers of PG&E and other big utilities in California are headed for huge changes in their electricity rates under a plan disclosed late Wednesday by two state law judges, but the plan was immediately blasted by a consumer and environmental group. The state Public Utilities Commission is scheduled to vote on Friday on a far-reaching revamp of electricity bills that could boost power rates by as much as $10 a month for 80 percent of California's residential consumers, including those served by San Francisco-based PG&E.
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Switch, Sands, Wynn mum at PUC meeting
2015-06-30 03:35:45| Semiconductors - Topix.net
Continuing the effort to cut ties with the state's largest power provider, representatives from the casino and energy industries met with officials from the Public Utilities Commission to discuss how regulators should calculate a fee to charge large-scale companies that want to create and purchase power without NV Energy. The meeting comes as MGM Resorts International, Las Vegas Sands and Wynn Resorts apply to buy and create power with the utility.
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Contra Costa Times editorial: PUC should back Florio's electric rate proposal
2015-06-25 00:51:36| Energy - Topix.net
The new president of the California Public Utilities Commission, Michael Picker, has taken significant steps toward restoring consumer trust in the discredited agency this year. But now he has taken a giant step backward.
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