rich 1.0 Action Network https://actionnetwork.org <link href='https://actionnetwork.org/css/style-embed-v3.css' rel='stylesheet' type='text/css' /><script src='https://actionnetwork.org/widgets/v6/letter/roll-back-the-cpuc-attack-on-our-communities?format=js&source=widget'></script><div id='can-letter-area-roll-back-the-cpuc-attack-on-our-communities' style='width: 100%'><!-- this div is the target for our HTML insertion --></div> California Alliance for Community Energy https://actionnetwork.org/groups/california-alliance-for-community-energy-2 https://can2-prod.s3.amazonaws.com/letters/photos/000/073/397/normal/CACE_-_logo.jpg Action Alert – Roll back the CPUC attack on our communities! California’s devastating wildfires set the stage for the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) to provide Pacific Gas & Electric (PG&E) a $6 billion bailout assist. Next, the CPUC will pass tens of billions in fire liability costs onto the public. These actions are just the latest in a long line of CPUC failures to protect the interests of the people of California. They also coincide with the CPUC's latest attack—in a long string of attacks—on Community Choice energy, the state's expanding alternative to the monopoly utility model. Last October, the CPUC approved a dramatic increase in "exit fees", arbitrary, unpredictable, and on-going fees that all Community Choice customers must pay. These PCIA fees continue indefinitely; for Community Choice customers, it’s like buying an electric car and paying Chevron for every gallon of gasoline you don’t use. Because exit fees cover their losses, the utilities have no incentive to do better. The result: Community Choice customers are saddled with these extra charges, and utility customers get over-priced electricity. This is the kind of mismanagement the CPUC is supposed to prevent, not promote. Both the fire liability bailout and the exit fee hike reflect the CPUC's regulatory approach: socialize the losses and privatize the profits. Through all these attacks, the CPUC is propping up an outmoded, centralized, private monopoly electricity model, based on derelict and now faltering corporations. It is obstructing the innovative, decentralized, public alternative energy model California is building to achieve a sustainable energy future. Like others across the country, Californians are demanding a different kind of deal—a Green New Deal— that strengthens our communities, while achieving the social and environmental progress we so desperately need. Can you join us and write a letter? Click here: https://actionnetwork.org/letters/roll-back-the-cpuc-attack-on-our-communities?source=email& https://actionnetwork.org/letters/roll-back-the-cpuc-attack-on-our-communities