Malibu Residents And Businesses Shifted from 50% To 100% Green Power, At Price Hike of 8%
Written by 991KBU on September 8, 2020
Residents of Malibu has received a mailer from Southern California Edison this weekend … reminding them of a recent change in the way that electricity is supplied to their meters.
The city of Malibu has joined 30 other cities … from Oxnard to Whittier … Ojai to Rolling Hills Estates … in a cooperative power company … the Clean Power Alliance.
It provides competition to Southern California Edison for power supplies.
Like in Texas and Illinois … Malibu residents now have a choice in not only which sells them power … but what kind of power they get.
100 percent clean … 50 percent clean … or the cheapest …. 36 percent clean.
And both Edison and the Clean Power Alliance offer in those three categories … so customers can pick.
As a default choice … the city of Malibu has now shifted customers to 100 percent clean from the Clean Power Alliance.
We used to be 50 percent clean.
And that means an 8 percent rate hike.
The 100 percent clean rate from the Clean Power Alliance is a bit cheaper than the similar package offered by Southern California Edison.
If anyone objects to that … they can make one phone call or visit one web site to switch to the old 50 percent clean rate … offered either by Edison or the Alliance … both offer a nearly equal 50 percent rate.
Some Malibu residents object to the city making a decision to switch away fromEdison and switch to clean power … as a default.
They say a market-driven company is always a better choice than a government owned cooperative.
But others point out the long term downward pressure that competition has already brought to the Edison rates.
And they say Edison is a monopoly … that should not be rewarded with business after negligently burning down 480 Malibu houses.
They also point out that Edison gets much of its energy supply from boilers in Oxnard that are the biggest air pollution source near Malibu … and kill ocean creatures in cooling water by boiling them alive.
The ultimate choice is up to the ratepayer.
