“Their stamps are almost certainly worn to nubs, the ink pads are bone dry, while Californians are left footing the bill. We figured they could use a fresh set.”

“It’s clear the CPUC believes ‘rubber-stamping rate hikes’ is the first line of their job description,” said Bernadette Del Chiaro, the Environmental Working Group’s senior vice president for California.

Wildfire mitigation updates are necessary, but utility corruption is costing Californians.

We break this down here: www.re-volt.org/utility-corr...

On top of paying for damages, Californians are paying for the underground utility wires. Did you see SCE raise their rates for this exact reason last month?

THIS! 👏 Monopoly utilities continually jacking up rates AND asking customers to foot the bill for the devastating wildfire damages that THEIR equipment has caused is insanity.

Cha ching! More massive spending, ratepayers treated like an ATM machine, and no guarantee our electric grid will be safer.

Californians deserve better, but utilities get more paydays.

Our regulators and politicians keep letting the utilities treat ratepayers like an ATM machine and it needs to end.

As a reminder: how much have Southern California Edison electricity bills gone up since 2020?

It doesn’t take a PhD in electricity rate design to understand that out of control utility spending leads to out-of-control rate increases.

And pushing wildfire costs onto ratepayers instead of holding utilities and their shareholders accountable is a very bad idea.

SCE is emailing their customers telling them about a *13%” increase. What is going on here?

The (@) californiaPUC, in a ‘fact sheet’ says that rates were supposed to go up 9.1% for all residential customers starting October 1st.

See link here: bit.ly/scecpucfacts...

The monopoly utility can charge whatever they want and we end up with a cozy, crony form of capitalism that hurts consumers and the environment.

Relying on big, for-profit utility companies and their, poorly-managed and overly centralized grid is not working for California.

We need a Re-Volt. The time to make real change is long overdue. When will lawmakers step in and truly reform the system?

Instead of sticking customers with the bill, it’s time to invest in a more resilient, consumer-focused energy system that doesn’t depend on fragile, fire-prone wires.

Every rate hike = more money for the utility and their investors, less money for working families.

Every attack on energy choice and freedom = more control for the utility, fewer choices for consumers.

This is what a monopoly looks like.

For those who try to escape the never ending cycle of cost increases by getting their electricity from another source, Sempra comes after them and tries to punish them.