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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.