Wiener Introduces New Bill Proposing SF Break Off From PG&E
Source: KRON4 | By Stephanie Rothman
State Senator Scott Wiener and San Francisco supervisors proposed new legislation to allow residents to break away from PG&E following a string of massive outages and rising costs for its customers. “Our smaller public utility here in San Francisco just lowered rates and the result was overall rate decreases due to the action of our local public utility. Just imagine if all of San Francisco’s entire electric system was governed by a local public utility.” San Francisco supervisors say that if the bill SB 875 is approved, it will allow the city to allow the creation of its own public utility or join the existing asset public utility company.
Mark Toney is the Executive Director of the Utility Reform Network (TURN) and says that even if the bill is passed, “it will take years to implement” and in the meantime they have introduced eight other bills to cut costs. “That is one that, historically, has taken decades so we are saying that in the meantime there are things that people can support that have much shorter immediate impacts."
