Joy Chen

“PG&E wants $456 million more from customers while threatening to cut $2 billion in infrastructure investments. Before asking Californians for another dollar, PG&E needs to explain what it will deliver with the money,” said Joy Chen, executive director of Every Fire Survivor’s Network. “The CPUC’s job is to demand that proof and hold PG&E to its duty to serve.”

“PG&E cannot take money customers paid for service, divert it to Wall Street shareholders and then claim it cannot afford to serve those customers,” said Joy Chen, executive director of Every Fire Survivor’s Network. “Money needed to fulfill its duty to serve must stay at the utility. The Assembly must demand that the CPUC enforce its own rules.”

“PG&E’s CEO sounds remarkably confident about what a regulators’ report that hasn’t been published and legislative hearings that haven’t happened will deliver for her shareholders. Californians deserve to know where that confidence comes from. Put the utilities’ and holding companies’ CEOs and CFOs under oath,” said Joy Chen, Executive Director of Every Fire Survivor’s Network. 

“Across California, the fear of losing home insurance has changed how people think about the security of their homes,” said Joy Chen, Executive Director of Every Fire Survivor’s Network. “For too long, consumers have held up our end of the bargain while having far too little power when an insurance company decides to walk away. SB 1301 begins to rebalance that relationship. This law says Californians deserve to be treated like customers, not liabilities to be shed. That matters for every family trying to build a secure future in this state.”