Campaign for Affordable Power (CAP)

Thank you to the authors, our partners, and TURN members who made this success possible.

TURN’s nation-leading data center package protects consumers from rate hikes, requiring clean energy investment.

SB 886 (Padilla), SB 887 (Padilla), AB 2383 (Zbur)

SB 886 (Padilla) and AB 2383 (Zbur) work together to require data centers to cover the transmission, generation, and distribution costs they trigger — vital safeguards for California electricity customers who already pay the highest electricity rates in the continental United States. SB 887 (Padilla) rewards facilities that choose to meet additional high-road local and environmental standards related to clean energy and water efficiency with expedited environmental review from the state.

SB 905 Provides common-sense measures to lower monthly bills, reduce utility spending, and improve the future of our grid.

SB 905 (Becker)

Reins in utility profits and reduces overspending, promotes public financing, and improves utilization of existing infrastructure. This bill directs the CPUC to open a rule making proceeding to evaluate opportunities for alternative methods of financing infrastructure, such as public loans and grants, which are significantly less expensive than traditional Wall Street shareholder financing.

SB 327 Protects ratepayers from utilities’ abuses wins approval from Legislature.

SB 327 (McNerney)

Protects ratepayers by strengthening oversight of investor-owned utilities (IOUs) and barring IOUs from using ratepayer funds to fight local efforts to create municipal utilities. At a time of skyrocketing utility bills, people deserve to choose a lower cost option like a municipal utility.

SB 1098 Closes the “blank check” billing loophole that allows utilities to pass excessive costs on to ratepayers.

SB 1098 (Perez)

Balancing and memorandum accounts were created to be a narrow tool for unforeseeable or unforecastable utility expenses. Utilities have treated these accounts like credit cards with no limits, with a guarantee that ratepayers would pay the balance. This bill would restrict these accounts to expenses that are genuinely unforeseeable or unforecastable. Governor Newsom can support ratepayers and restore transparency by signing 1098.

AB 1715 Improves utility companies’ transparency and lowers utility bills.

AB 1715 (Schiavo)

Creates transparent reporting of public loans and grants received by IOUs to ensure savings from cheaper, public financing options are passed through to ratepayers. This bill requires the CPUC to annually report to the legislature a summary of all the taxpayer funding reported by each IOU. This is a rerun of TURN-sponsored bill AB 1020 (2025).

AB 2065 Improves utility companies’ accountability.

AB 2065 (Petrie-Norris)

Establishes penalties for utilities when they are caught inappropriately using ratepayer money to pay for things that should be charged to shareholders. This bill is in alignment with AB 1167 (Berman, 2025) and SB 327 (McNerney, 2026), but broadens accountability beyond lobbying expenses.