Posts Tagged: SoCal Edison

Are California’s electricity rates about to skyrocket?

De-focused electricity transmission towers in countryside at sunset, panoramic landscape. AChanPhoto, Shutterstock

by CAPITOL WEEKLY STAFF posted 11.06.2023

CAPITOL WEEKLY PODCAST: Loretta Lynch, the former President of the California Public Utilities Commission is sounding the alarm on a proposed change to California’s commercial electricity providers’ rate structure that, she says, will dramatically increase rates for electricity customers. Now, Lynch and others are urging the CPUC to intervene before it’s too late.

Those living near gas plants want a healthier future, too

Homes in a middle-class neighborhood across the street from an oil refinery in Southern California. (Photo: trekandshoot, via Shutterstock)

by SOFIA MAGALLON posted 11.07.2022

OPINION: Communities living next to gas plants constantly worry about the next disaster, like the 2021 Russell City Energy Center explosion, that could upend their lives. Beyond safety risks and intense air pollution impacts, gas plants have also repeatedly been unreliable in moments of high electricity demand.