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The California Public Utilities Commission on Thursday sided with the soon-to-launch San Diego community energy program in a dispute it had with San Diego Gas & Electric.
San Diego Community Power which will begin to purchase power for customers in San Diego, Chula Vista, La Mesa, Encinitas and Imperial Beach later this year had complained to the commission that data SDG&E intended to use to calculate rates would make the new energy program less attractive to prospective customers.
SDG&E argued it was using numbers it was authorized to employ as part of a general rate case that is still being considered by the commission.
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Officials at San Diego Community Power think San Diego Gas & Electric is manipulating rates to discourage customers from joining the soon-to-launch community energy program that will cover five cities, and have complained to the utility and the California Public Utilities Commission.
SDG&E officials deny the accusation, saying they are relying on the appropriate formula they are authorized to use to calculate rates for this year.
The dispute is expected to be resolved Thursday when the CPUC’s commissioners are scheduled to vote on a pair of competing proposals.
“We’re not trying to pick a fight,” said Bill Carnahan, interim CEO of San Diego Community Power, the community choice energy program that will offer an alternative to SDG&E when it to comes buying power for customers in San Diego, Chula Vista, La Mesa, Encinitas and Imperial Beach when it begins to accept customers later this year.
New San Diego-area community choice energy program feuding with SDG&E [The San Diego Union-Tribune]
Officials at San Diego Community Power think San Diego Gas & Electric is manipulating rates to discourage customers from joining the soon-to-launch community energy program that will cover five cities, and have complained to the utility and the California Public Utilities Commission.
SDG&E officials deny the accusation, saying they are relying on the appropriate formula they are authorized to use to calculate rates for this year.
The dispute is expected to be resolved Thursday when the CPUC’s commissioners are scheduled to vote on a pair of competing proposals.
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San Diego Gas & Electric customers may pay a few bucks more on their bills from March until the end of this year if the California Public Utilities Commission signs off on a request recently filed by the local power provider.
SDG&E officials blamed the increase partly on high electric prices due to last summer’s hot weather.
“At a very high level, it basically boils down to the price of electricity being higher than was forecasted,” SDG&E said in an email to the Union-Tribune.
If the commission approves the application, typical customers in the inland climate zone using 400 kilowatt-hours of electricity would see a 3.3 percent increase in their bills starting March 1 and going through Dec. 31. That works out to an increase of $3.66 per month during the winter pricing months of Nov. 1 through May 31 and $3.72 for the summer months of June 1 through Oct. 31. The increase, if approved, would expire after 10 months Jan. 1, 2022.
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San Diego’s new mayor and the newly formed City Council expect to find out Thursday what’s actually in the bids to win the city’s new electric and gas franchise agreement and determine if more than one company made a submission that meets the minimum requirements the city has sought.
After Mayor Todd Gloria on Tuesday morning called for the council to hold a special meeting to disclose the bids, City Council President Jennifer Campbell placed it on the docket for 10 a.m. Thursday.
However, the meeting will not determine which company if any will win the new agreement because the meeting has been listed as an “informational” item before the council, not a voting item.