That’s called communism.
Nope, flat base fee based on income, PLUS the charge for the amount of electricity used.
Every family should just incorporate and show no personal income for any member of the family.
Every day, California gives me at least one more data point demonstrating that I did the right thing by leaving.
How the heck does this work for businesses, industry, rentals, apartments, agriculture, etc? I live in a building that includes power. The meter is not in my name. Will they charge according to the owner’s income? How the heck does the power company know anyone’s income?
There was concern with Smart meters that people would know your habits. With this, they know your wealth and habits.
I wonder if they’ll do the same at the grocery.
When will renewable electricity be meter free?
How exactly do utility companies know the household income of their customers?
No, this is an extra fee. Any Californian would jump at the opportunity to pay this amount as a "flat fee". We will still be charged per KWH for electricity.
This move to impose graduated billing seems a retaliatory strike against prognosticated electric rate relief promoted by the solar energy industry. The sales pitch was always about the net rate reduction attainable by using the power generated on one’s own rooftop, and selling excess power back to the utilities, potentially resulting — during some months — in bills as low as just the monthly gas usage plus the basic fees.
With this new onslaught, however, the minimum possible bill will be greatly elevated, crippling ROI on the solar systems in which customers have invested tens of thousands of dollars by substantively negating solar customers’ actual realized rate relief, which hoped-for relief was — transparently — the principal reason 99.9% of ratepayers ever even considered “going solar” in the first place.
Now, having seen that the future of residential solar in California benefits consumers so much, the CA Legislature and The Governor step in with a colossal sop to the utilities, ensuring by legislative fiat that they will enjoy an enduring revenue floor by, essentially, erasing a consequential amount of the economic reward that prompted so many Californian ratepayers to invest in solar.
If I’m tracking at all, here, with my analysis this seems an inexcusably mammoth slap in the face to ratepayers who’ve invested into solar power, especially since it is being perpetrated against them after they’ve already committed the funding and are locked into contractual repayment obligations.
Succinctly, prospective solar customers were sold a golden egg, invested basis the promise, and now the Legislature has killed the goose before it could get down to laying.
And all of that mess stands entirely apart from everything else that’s problematic about this Marxist, income-based rate structure.
How does a utility company know your income?
This is PURE COMMUNISM.
How the h*** does the electric company come to think they are entitled to know your income?
“We have listened to the customer, and they want a totalitarian surveillance state.”
So you were making 100k and you lost your job...still paying that 100k rate?
Ridiculous idea.
I pay income over $180K prices in summer. Methinks this deal ain’t gonna last long.
The utilities say customers should expect to also see lower costs for their kilowatt-hour usage.
That would be contrary to reality. I’m not expecting to see lower costs and I don’t live in CA. Frankly Scarlett, CA shouldn’t be allowed to acquire electricity from any State other than CA.
With that simple rule they can now do whatever they like and suffer their own consequences for bad decisions. If WE don’t get a handle on this green energy scam the world is going to go out of balance when all of us living in the North have to move south for survival.
It sounds cheep for everyone. Even the rich only pay less than a hundred a month. That’s not bad.
No longer charging based on usage? Sounds like a sure-fire formula for people to use a LOT more energy. Especially the people paying $20/month.
Black households in LA, San Francisco and San Jose receive an electric power reparations subsidy paid quarterly
“This proposal would give each household unlimited electricity for a flat monthly fee. That is a horrible incentive.”
Why not just give the poor a subsidy for their electricity like we do for their food, housing, medical care, child care, abortions, etc.
Which group gets it for Free ? Let me guess ,LOL