Energy

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 advocate eyes ballot initiative on deregulation

November 28, 2000  ·  Harvey Rosenfield

<p class="source">Associated Press</p> <p>A consumer group, outraged at spiraling electric bills, is crafting a ballot initiative to let the public run California's flawed electricity system unless politicians protect ratepayers from price spikes.</p>

Calif Consumer Group Submits Elec Rereg Ballot Initiative

November 28, 2000  ·  Consumer Watchdog

<p class="source">Dow Jones Newswires</p> <p>LOS ANGELES -(Dow Jones)- A California consumer group submitted a draft ballot initiative to the governor and state legislature Tuesday calling for a publicly owned and controlled electricity system.</p>

SCE SEEKS RATE HIKE, RATE-SETTING AUTHORITY

November 18, 2000  ·  Consumer Watchdog

<h3>POWER: EDISON'S PROPOSAL TO PUC WOULD BOOST THE CUSTOMER'S COST BY 9.9% AND ASKS FOR AN EARLY END TO THE FREEZE</h3><p class="source">Los Angeles Times</p> <p>Southern California Edison is increasing the pressure on state regulators to allow it to pass high wholesale electricity rates on to customers through an initial rate hike of nearly 10% plus new authority to set its own rates--a combination that could mea</p>

Edison to pursue issue of market manipulation

November 18, 2000  ·  Consumer Watchdog

<p class="source">The San Diego Union-Tribune</p> <p>LOS ANGELES -- Southern California Edison said yesterday that in a filing next Wednesday it would "hammer home" to federal regulators its belief that there was manipulation of California's electricity market this summer. Wednesday is the deadline for</p>

DAVIS SEEKS PRICE CONTROLS ON ELECTRICITY

November 15, 2000  ·  Consumer Watchdog

<h3>GOVERNOR ALSO ASKS FEDERAL REGULATORS TO GIVE REFUNDS TO CALIFORNIA CONSUMERS WHO FELT THE IMPACT OF DEREGULATION THIS SUMMER WITH HIGH BILLS</h3><p class="source">Los Angeles Times</p> <p>Gov. Gray Davis warned federal energy regulators Tuesday of a "ratepayer revolt" unless they order refunds and immediate price controls to keep bills from skyrocketing under California's newly deregulated electricity market.</p>

Politicians, activists seek utility re-regulation

November 12, 2000  ·  Consumer Watchdog

<p class="source">Stockton Record</p> <p>Five months after California's experiment with deregulation sent electricity prices soaring, state policy-makers haven't come anywhere close to a consensus on how to solve the problem.</p>

State Utilities Left With Burden of Reclaiming Costs From Crisis

November 3, 2000  ·  Consumer Watchdog

<h3>Issue will remain unsettled until next year when a new agreement is reached and flaws in deregulation are fixed</h3><p class="source">Los Angeles Times</p> <p>The $6-billion wrecking ball that is waiting to slam either California consumers or the utility industry is back in the control of state officials after a federal commission this week failed to even address the problem.</p>