Working families deserve rate relief.
Lower bills.
Increase accountability.
Record high energy bills are draining your pockets while making Wall Street record profits! And our leaders are letting it happen.
Enough is enough.
Lawmakers: Make utilities put people before profits.
Stop utilities from spending our money to lobby for higher rates.
Utility companies spend millions of our dollars on lobbying and self-serving advertising.
After PG&E decided to bury 10,000 miles of power lines to reduce wildfire risk, they spent $6 million of ratepayer money on TV ads to tout this costly approach.
Since 2019, SoCalGas has charged customers more than $36 million to fund their lobbying efforts to block climate policies.
California residents shouldn’t have to pay for utility lobbying against climate policies or advertising to rebuild their image. Utilities must stop abusing ratepayer money NOW.
Make utilities use the fastest and cheapest wildfire safety measures.
Wildfires pose an existential threat to California, but investor-owned utilities are exploiting this crisis to maximize profits, pursuing the most costly paths to reduce wildfire risk.
Wildfire mitigation spending caused PG&E residential customers’ rates to spike by more than 20% in early 2024.
Regulators need to make sure utilities choose the safest and most effective strategies to avoid wildfires, rather than the most expensive options that only benefit shareholders and executives.
Utility spending often exceeds budgets, and executives expect Californians to pay the extra costs. Regulators should make sure executives stick to budgets and make shareholders, not customers, cover overspending.
Cap rate increases what people can afford.
Utilities are reporting record profits, but customers are still paying more. After hiking up rates, PG&E reported a 25% increase in profits in 2023.
PG&E customers in California can expect to pay $400 more on their energy bills this year — and double what they paid a decade ago.
Leaders need to manage rate hikes that disproportionately burden low-income customers with out-of-control bills.
