Not Using Enough SDG&E Electricty Now? Says Who?
In the business section of this morning's diminishing daily paper, Onell Soto has a Q&A of what is going on with us using a lot less electricity then getting a lot higher rates for the savings. The second question: "OK, …
WEBA Update: Amended Application filed by SCE, SDG&E and PG&E for Uninsured Wildfire Expense Billings to Customers
Southern California Edison has filed a joint amended application for authority to bill customers for outstanding Wildfire Expense Balancing Account (WEBA) amounts that record future uninsured wildfire legal and related costs. The amended WEBA application by SCE, SDG&E;, and PG&E; …
City of San Diego Protests SDG&E PeakShift Rate Hike Proposal
The City of San Diego filed its initial protest to the San Diego Gas and Electric Company application A1007009 to the California Public Utilities Commission. If approved, the SDG&E application to CPUC would result in a new electricity time-based billing …
Per Watt Savings from Off-Grid Solar Panels Balance SDG&E Proposed Rate Hikes
According to Onell Soto in Saturday's distinguished daily paper, the average cost of a grid-connected solar home installation is about $7.15 per watt. The number came up in a story about a contractor who was attracting interest because that contractor's …
CPUC DRA Moves To Strike $118 Million Part of SDG&E Rate Hike Proposal
The Division of Ratepayer Analysts of the California Public Utilities Commission has filed a motion to strip a $118 million billing request from San Diego Gas and Electric Company's PeakShift at Work/PeakShift at Home rate hike proposal. The $118 million …
On the Benefits of Recreational Summertime Walking through Death Valley
I assume delusion is in the eye of the beholder. Now, I am not so deluded as to think that natural marriages between one man and one woman are the same practical thing as an artificial marriage between two men, …
Salvation Army in Retreat from County Camp Expansion
Mussey Grade Road Alliance Assault Ends Salvation Army Expansion In Our Time Salvation Army Major Linda Markiewicz announced that the international religious mission's move to expand its Mussey Grade Road facility near Ramona has been halted by the threat of …
Kinder, Gentler SDG&E Proposes 7% Rate Increase RE Uninsured Wildfire Legal Costs
SUPERIOR COURT JUSTICE COMPLEX - San Diego Gas and Electric Company (SDG&E) has introduced its general rate increase application with a pair of headlines in our distinguished daily paper this morning, claiming of the front page that SDG&E needs a …
PG&E Subject of Wide-Ranging CPUC General Rate Investigation
Pacific Gas and Electric Company, the proponent of Proposition 16 that failed in the June primary election and opponent of California Public Utilities Commission authority to regulate the truthfulness of PG&E advertising content, will be subject to an wide-ranging investigation …
The American Christian Theocracy of the Majority
I recognize that there is a Christian theocracy in America. All Americans who are Christians are among the people who govern America with our votes, as our Christian beliefs are in us and are not grounds for excluding us from …
Jim Hill and my Happy Heart Attack Anniversary
It is now a year since I had my last heart attack sufficiently painful enough to have me call for an emergency lift to the hospital. In the last few days, I have had enough physical complaints to remind me …
Opposing WEBA Parties File Motion to Delay Prehearing Conference
Absence of Timely Amended Application by SDG&E;, Other Utilities at Issue The Disability Rights Activists have joined with the California Public Utilities Commission's Division of Ratepayer Advocates (CPUC DRA) and Consumer Safety and Protection Division (CPUC CSPD), and The Utility …
Maloni on Voting as Legalized Gambling on Redevelopment Projects
Scott Maloni informed us in the media over the weekend that downtown San Diego provides us with $60 million annually in tax revenues that are used for public safety and community services throughout the City of San Diego. If only …
Connect the Dots 20100802
The Fix San Diego Politicians, Developers, and People Reporting to Public Utility Shareholders are in In a strange twist of political fate along a long local strand with no end in sight, Mayor Jerry Sanders last week vetoed a public …
Motion for WEBA Protest at Issue before CPUC
Protest party Ruth Henricks and her attorney Michael Aguirre have filed a motion to reply to investor owned utility (IOU) response opposing Henrick's eaarlier motion to file protest in the uninsured wildfire liability billing authority matter now before the California …