Can anyone confirm that Southern California Edison just did a stealth rate increase to 0.35c kwh while also lowering baseline allocations?
Or was this actually planned for June 1st 2014? There's no information about it.
I can't find anything online, but a SCE rep told me this was the case and that SCE was just at the mercy of another entity who pushed the rate through. A lie, SCE actively lobbies this entity to screw it's customers and were there a increase it was 100% pushed by Edison.
You're not mistaken. This is what happens when you have a idiot for governor (Gray Davis) followed by a pseudo tree hugger (Arnold driving around in a Hummer) followed by a governor nicknamed Moonbeam. I'm surprised we still have any tech companies left in Silicon Valley because there definitely is no room for anything electric to function in this state.
I'm with SCE too and the rate hike was approved by the CA public utilities commission.... which as you noted is lobbied by SCE. SCE's parent company does power on the East Coast and their rates are 1/4 of what we pay, and SCE provides the majority profit for said company. Bascially we are subsidizing the parent Edison customers on the East coast because CA is run by a band of thugs. Nothing you can do except maybe move to Seattle (which I am considering).
