CPA Says Talk Of Power Rate Changes Does Not Involve Them

You may be hearing a lot about electric rates being changed in California.

The CPUC wants to establish a monthly connection fee … a monthly charge for every customer to remain attached to the statewide power grid.

The California Public Utilities Commission has proposed charging ratepayers a flat fee of 25 dollars a month … 

The legislature is proposing 5 or 10 dollars a month.

Customers with less income would pay less …..based on customer income levels.

The lowest income bracket customers would be offered a 75% discount. 

At the same time … SCE would cut the cost of delivering the power by about 7 percent.

But all this is for the most of delivering the power.

Not generating the power.

96 percent of Malibu customers pay for power generated by CPA … the Clean Power  Alliance. 

So … how will this affect CPA customers?

We’ve been asking CPA since last week.

They refuse to be interviewed.

A spokeswoman says in a email that the proposed fixed charge would go on the delivery side of the bill.

They are on the generation side of the bill. 

And generation rates will not be impacted.

That leaves a lot of questions.

CPA refuses to come to the phone for a reporter. 

They issued this statement …. which was too obtuse to be read on the radio:

“The Income Graduated Fixed Charge would have no disproportionate impact on CPA customers compared to IOU customers. The charge would go on the delivery side of the bill and therefore be applied equally. When they talk about it reducing IOU volumetric rates, all of those reductions will also take place on the delivery side of the bill; generation rates will not be impacted. CPA’s competitive rate position remains intact.”

Translated: it’s not our part of your power bill, talk to Edison.