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ELECTRICITY RATES RAISED BY STATE ON SLIDING SCALEChicago Tribune In a move that shocked and angered consumers, the California Public Utility Commission…
Mar 28, 2001City News Service On a day when a state panel authorized the biggest electricity rate hike in state history for SCE and…
Mar 27, 2001San Diego Union Tribune Regulators appointed by Gov. Gray Davis are expected to vote today on a proposal to raise electricity rates…
Mar 27, 2001CRISIS HAS MANY IN STATE FEELING POWERLESSThe Daily News of Los Angeles
Mar 27, 2001Associated Press California's top energy regulator is considering raising rates by almost 50 percent to send a message to ''electricity hogs'' to…
Mar 27, 2001BAILOUT WATCH: Keeping an eye on the energy industry and the politicians Bailout Watch #25 - Mar 26, 2001 Gov. Running Out…
Mar 27, 2001Los Angeles Business Journal Consumer advocates are calling on the state Department of Managed Health Care to co-sponsor a bill that would…
Mar 26, 2001State Should Get Refunds or Seize Plants, Advocates Say
Mar 26, 2001Davis favors tiered rate increasesThe San Francisco Chronicle Gov. Gray Davis, faced with the near inevitability of raising consumers' electricity bills, is…
Mar 25, 2001Even aides predict big power cost boostSacramento Bee With new threats of fiscal distress descending on California's power industry and the state…
Mar 25, 2001The Associated Press State power regulators may have to raise rates for customers of two financially strapped utilities at least 50 percent…
Mar 24, 2001Critics say he should have been at CapitolThe San Francisco Chronicle While the Assembly struggled -- and failed -- to pass a…
Mar 24, 2001Spending may double and rates skyrocket, governor's office tells LegislatureThe San Francisco Chronicle Top Davis administration officials told lawmakers yesterday that the…
Mar 24, 2001Governor's Giveaway Invites Public Backlash, Say Consumer Advocates
Mar 24, 2001BAILOUT WATCH: Keeping an eye on the energy industry and the politicians Bailout Watch #24 - Mar 23, 2001 Killing the goose…
Mar 24, 2001The San Diego Union-Tribune California's power grid managers said yesterday that energy company price fixing over a recent 10-month period has cost…
Mar 23, 2001GRID OPERATOR SAYS IT HAS NOT ASSESSED HOW MUCH SHOULD BE REFUNDED. PRODUCERS DENY THAT THEY HAVE PROFITEERED.Los Angeles Times California's power…
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