Energy

STATE MUST CONSIDER REGULATION OF ELECTRICITY INDUSTRY, BURTON SAYS

December 1, 2000  ·  Consumer Watchdog

<h3>UTILITIES: SENATE LEADER SEES PUBLIC POWER SYSTEM AS A POSSIBLE SOLUTION FOR CONSUMERS HIT BY RISING BILLS</h3><p class="source">Los Angeles Times</p> <p>State Senate leader John L. Burton agreed Thursday that Gov. Gray Davis and the Legislature must examine possible conversion of California's electricity industry to a public power system.</p>

Proponen revertir la desregularización de energía eléctrica

November 30, 2000  ·  Consumer Watchdog

<p class="source">La Opinión</p> <p>La lucha por mantener bajos los costos de electricidad podría llegar a las urnas electorales si la Legislatura y el gobernador no actúan de una manera apropiada en contra de las compañías de energía eléctrica, advirtió ayer un grupo de protección al consu</p>

Proponen revertir la desregularización de energía eléctrica

November 30, 2000  ·  Consumer Watchdog

<p class="source">La Opinion</p> <p>SACRAMENTO - La lucha por mantener bajos los costos de electricidad podría llegar a las urnas electorales si la Legislatura y el gobernador no actúan de una manera apropiada en contra de las compañías de energía eléctrica, advirtió ayer un grupo de protec</p>

State electricity takeover may be put on ballot

November 29, 2000  ·  Harvey Rosenfield

<p class="source">San Diego Union-Tribune</p> <p>SACRAMENTO -- An influential consumer advocate is drafting a voter initiative that would replace California's troubled move into a deregulated electrical market with a state-owned power system</p>

PG&E bills likely to go even higher

November 29, 2000  ·  Consumer Watchdog

<h3>Utility says gas costs for December will shoot up by 65%.</h3><p class="source">The Fresno Bee</p> <p>Hang on to your wallet and lower your thermostat -- again. Pacific Gas and Electric Co., after calculating its natural gas rates for December, now says that household bills for California's most common heating fuel will surpass the dismal forecast it is</p>

Let state own electric utilities, group says

November 29, 2000  ·  Consumer Watchdog

<h3>Proposed ballot initiative could pressure Gov. Davis to consider public ownership</h3><p class="source">The Orange County Register</p> <p>SACRAMENTO - The state should buy out private utility companies and replace them with a government-run agency that would produce and deliver electricity, a consumer group proposed Tuesday, unveiling its solution for the state's troubled power system.</p>

Group seeks reversal of utility deregulation

November 29, 2000  ·  Harvey Rosenfield

<p class="source">The News and Observer (Raleigh, NC)</p> <p>Sacramento, California -- A consumer group outraged at spiraling electric bills wants to put a ballot initiative before voters that would reverse the 1996 law deregulating California's power industry.</p>

Group Plans Initiative to Limit Profit of California Electric Suppliers

November 29, 2000  ·  Harvey Rosenfield

<p class="source">San Jose Mercury News</p> <p>An advocacy group unveiled plans Tuesday for a statewide initiative that would limit how much profit electricity suppliers can make, require them to refund to consumers part of what they earned this year and essentially re-regulate the energy markets.</p>

End power woes or we’ll turn to ballot, consumer group says

November 29, 2000  ·  Harvey Rosenfield

<p class="source">Sacramento Bee</p> <p>If California lawmakers don't re-regulate electric rates and create a new statewide public power system, both issues will go to the voters in a 2002 ballot initiative, one consumer group vowed Tuesday.</p>

Electricity Regulation Proposed for State Ballot

November 29, 2000  ·  Harvey Rosenfield

<h3>Consumer group wants agency to run power grid</h3><p class="source">San Francisco Chronicle</p> <p>Sacramento -- Raising the stakes in the debate over skyrocketing energy prices, a leading consumer advocate proposed a ballot initiative yesterday to scrap California's deregulated electricity market and transform it into a state-run system.</p>

Consumer group plans to bring electric costs to ballot box

November 29, 2000  ·  Consumer Watchdog

<p class="source">Contra Costa Times</p> <p>SACRAMENTO, Calif._A consumer group vowed Tuesday to pursue an initiative that would re-regulate the electric utility industry if state lawmakers fail to take strong action in coming months to protect consumers.</p>

ACTIVISTS PROPOSE BALLOT INITIATIVE TO REREGULATE ELECTRICITY INDUSTRY

November 29, 2000  ·  Consumer Watchdog

<h3>ENERGY: GROUP PLANS 2002 MEASURE-- ALLOWING A STATE TAKEOVER--UNLESS THE LEGISLATURE AND THE GOVERNOR ACT FIRST</h3><p class="source">Los Angeles Times</p> <p>A consumer advocacy group announced a proposed ballot initiative Tuesday that would allow a takeover of the multibillion-dollar electricity industry in California by the state government.</p>