Campaign for Affordable Power (CAP)
Building a BIG TENT to Win Affordable Bills!
Utility rates have reached crisis levels, worsening homelessness and jeopardizing our clean energy future. We must lower costs, ensure fair electricity pricing, and advance reliable, equitable, and affordable energy. In January 2025, TURN launched CAP: Campaign for Affordable Power—a three-year initiative focused on grassroots advocacy, local power-building, and bold legislation.
Through CAP, we’re uniting a diverse movement to cut monthly bills, rein in utility spending and profits, and prevent shutoffs and homelessness.
As California residents and businesses struggle, there are still no limits on how much utilities can charge per increase or how often they can ask for one. This system is broken.
MARK TONEY, TURN Executive Director
2026 Energy Bills
LIMIT UTILITY RATE INCREASES
AB 2338 (Ransom): Allows CPUC to use projected Social Security COLA as the starting point for determining General Rate Case increases, instead of starting with double–digit utility proposals. AB 2338 requires utilities to submit an application for General Rate Cases (GRCs), which is capped at the annual Social Security Cost of Living Adjustment (COLA), so the burden falls on the utilities to justify every additional dollar of spending that exceeds the rate of inflation.
STOP UTILITY OVERSPENDING
SB 1098 (Perez): Takes away the platinum credit card issued to utilities that has no spending limit, and a guarantee that somebody else (ratepayers) will pay the balance. SB 1098 limits utility overspending by limiting the use of balancing and memorandum accounts, so more spending is included in General Rate Cases.
AB 1715 (Schiavo): Protects ratepayers from paying for utility projects that have already been paid for by public funding or grant funding. AB 1715 requires utilities to file CPUC reports on all public financing and grants that should replace requests for ratepayer dollars.
Utility affordability is one of the biggest concerns for California Residents and Businesses.
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Utility Affordability Polling
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2026 January CA Energy Affordability Survey
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2025 DBR Voter Survey
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CA Affordability Polling Memo