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SoCal Edison and others will impose a new utility charge on customers if the PUC gives the plan a final OK this summer.

Multiple efforts are underway on both sides of California's political divide to short-circuit a legislative plan to impose fixed fees -- based on your income -- on customers of PG&E and other utility leviathans.

Solar advocates, led by Solar Holler founder and CEO Dan Conant, are fighting a plan by FirstEnergy utilities Mon Power and Potomac Edison to change the structure of net metering in West Virginia. They say the plan would short-change customers who generate their own electricity, but the utilities and others, including the state Public Service Commission Consumer Advocate Division, say non-solar customers are subsidizing solar customers under the current setup.

Major employers and trade organizations in North Carolina are releasing a letter to the North Carolina Utilities Commission today, urging the commission to adopt a multi-year plan for Duke Energy that ensures the state will meet its legally mandated goals to significantly reduce climate pollution from the power sector while expanding the state&rsqu

The closures are forcing difficult choices about the use of natural gas as renewable energy fails to ramp up fast enough.

The closures are forcing difficult choices about the use of natural gas as renewable energy fails to ramp up fast enough.