On Friday Governor Newsom vetoed a bill that would have restored the right for schools to directly use the solar energy they generate using their own solar arrays. A controversial November 2023 ruling by the California Public Utilities Commission took away this right, ruling that properties with more than one meter must first sell the
A powerful segment by newscaster Alex Bell for ABC10 Sacramento on June 18 exposed the climate solution-crippling influence that the state’s largest utilities have over the California Public Utilities Commission. In an interview with ABC10, Loretta Lynch, President of the CPUC from 2000 to 2002, blew the whistle on undue influence that the state’s muliti-billion
Throughout the past several years, as California has pushed for more renewable energy development, utility companies have, at the same time fought against those efforts, sometimes even illegally using ratepayer funds to lobby against climate solutions. This petition calls on the CPUC to vote against a dangerous decision that will block solar for properties with
The Solar Rights Alliance is sounding the alarm bells that a new proposed decision by the powerful California Public Utilities Commission will hurt farmers and property owners by making it nearly impossible for them to recover the cost of larger solar systems that they directly sub-meter to sub-tenants. Dave Rosenfeld, the executive director Solar Rights Alliance, said the
An explosive new investigative report by Joe Rubin and Ari Plachta in the Sacramento Bee revealed that utility companies have regularly used ratepayer funds to block climate solutions like electrification. If true, this would be illegal and constitute fraud. SoCalGas claims that its lobbying activities are paid out of profits, but in a brief by the
