As we ponder the price of food and fuel this Thanksgiving, California's progressive communist Democrats are planning to screw Californians further to advance their climate wealth redistribution scheme and curtail your personal freedom and mobility.

This corrupt, elitist communist bastard, Gavin Newsom, has done so much damage to this formerly Golden State that he needs to be recalled.

The official media release from the State that can’t always keep the lights on…

This from the state that's going to force everyone to buy electric cars by 2035...

"Attention EV Users: To help manage grid demand and minimize electricity costs, please avoid charging your electric vehicle during peak hours, typically between 4 9 p.m. and instead charge during off-peak hours when electricity rates are lower."

Heaven forbid, the electric utilities would have to make capital expenditures to scale out an aging and increasingly unreliable grid or stop subsidizing solar and wind farms.  

We are under attack by communists ...

Californians will see lower electricity rates and a new fee that won’t vary with power use

State utility regulators decided today to let California’s largest power providers stick their customers with a new monthly flat fee in exchange for a reduction in the overall price of electricity, a controversial change to the way that millions of households pay their utility bills with weighty implications for state climate change policy.

Under the new policy, utilities will be required to reduce the price households pay for the electricity they use every time they charge a phone or run an air conditioner. That rate cut will vary from between 8% and 18%, depending on the utility, season and time of day, according to the commission’s analysis.

To make up for the lost revenue, regulators have introduced the concept of a “fixed charge,” a break from California electric billing tradition. For decades electric bills from Pacific Gas & Electric, Southern California Edison and San Diego Gas & Electric have been the “pay as you go” variety, with households only paying for the electricity they use.

Starting in late 2025 for SCE and SDG&E customers and in early 2026 for those with PG&E, the state’s investor-owned utilities will be able to charge customers a monthly fee regardless of how much power the customer draws from the grid. So-called fixed charges are a mainstay of electric billing across most of the country, with an average fee of roughly $11. <Source>

Screwing the middle class again…

Solar power glut boosts California electric bills. Other states reap the benefits

In the last 12 months, California has curtailed production of enough solar energy to power 518,000 homes for a year.
Californians, whose electric rates are roughly twice the national average, are essentially paying for power capacity they are unable to use.
The solar glut raises questions about the state’s plan to generate all its electricity from carbon-free sources by 2045.
California is making so much solar energy that large commercial operators are increasingly forced to stop production, raising questions about the state’s costly plan to shift entirely to carbon-free sources of electricity.

In the last 12 months, California’s solar farms have curtailed production of more than 3 million megawatt hours of solar energy, either on the orders of the state’s grid operator or because prices had plummeted because of the glut, according to an analysis of data by The Times.

The waste would have been even larger if California had not paid utilities in other states to take the excess solar energy, documents from the state’s grid operator show. That means green energy paid for by California electricity customers is sent away, lowering bills for residents of other states.

Arizona’s largest public utility reaped $69 million in savings last year by buying from the market California created to get rid of its excess solar power. The utility returned that money to its customers as a credit on their bills.

Also reaping profits are electricity traders, including banks and hedge funds.

The increasing oversupply of solar power has created a situation where energy traders can buy the excess at prices so low they become negative, said energy consultant Gary Ackerman, the former executive director of the Western Power Trading Forum. That means the solar plant is paying the traders to take it.

“This is all being underwritten by California ratepayers,” Ackerman said. <Source>

Bottom line...

Ever wonder what the Public Utilities Commission actually does for Californians or all those other Boards and Commissions whose members are appointed by politicians to give their donors, friends, and fading politicos cushy six-figure salaries?

BOHICA: Bend Over, Here It Comes Again.

-- Steve