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Worthwhile products sell themselves. So it’s always been strange to me that some companies selling solar power systems resort to the skeeviest sales practices imaginable telemarketing, robocalls, hyper-aggressive salespeople.
Solar power is a good thing. It’s part of the solution to climate change.
Yet some players in this industry go out of their way to come off as disreputable. Just the other day, a solar salesman I encountered while walking my dog wouldn’t take no for an answer, trying three times to get me to stop and hear his pitch.
But the following story really takes the cake.
A new community choice energy program
encompassing three North County cities Carlsbad, Del Mar and Solana Beach begins enrolling the first of about 58,000 customers on Saturday, offering an alternative to San Diego Gas & Electric when it comes to purchasing sources of energy.
Called the Clean Energy Alliance, the community choice aggregation, or CCA, program promises to offer residential and commercial customers cleaner power than SDG&E. But at least for now, customers will see only a tiny reduction in their monthly bills in comparison to the incumbent utility. And in the case of customers in Solana Beach, rates will be slightly higher than SDG&E’s.
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SCE Launches Customer Enrollment Drive for Medical Baseline Program
April 27, 2021 GMT
ROSEMEAD, Calif. (BUSINESS WIRE) Apr 27, 2021
Southern California Edison is encouraging more eligible customers to take part in the utility’s Medical Baseline program, which can provide more resiliency and support, especially during critical times.
The program supports customers who rely on power for medical needs by delivering additional electricity at the lowest price per day, which can help them save on their overall energy bill. It covers a variety of devices and equipment requiring power that help customers thrive, including but not limited to, power wheelchairs and scooters, respirators, breathing machines and dialysis machines.
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Pacific Gas & Electric’s (PG&E) bid to securitize $7.5 billion in costs associated with the 2017 wildfires in its service territory could hit ratepayers hard, consumer advocates are warning state regulators.
PG&E has proposed creating a customer credit trust to offset additional charges that customers could face if the securitization is approved. But modeling from ratepayer group The Utility Reform Network (TURN) suggests that there is a 40% chance that trust will have a shortfall as opposed to PG&E’s estimate of 16% in which case ratepayers would be on the hook for an average of nearly $2 billion, under TURN s modeling.