Campaign for Affordable Power (CAP)
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California families are already struggling with rising utility costs, and they could soon face even higher bills. According to the California Public Utilities Commission's Public Advocates Office, the average household could see utility costs increase by $444 a year in 2027, growing to $840 annually by 2030.
Those increases come on top of years of rising costs. Between 2016 and 2026, the average monthly PG&E electricity and gas bill increased by 84%, with bills jumping from $241 in January 2023 to $285 in January 2026.
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“There are no limits on how much or how often utilities can request additional increases
after their base budget is approved. At every step in the process of delivering goods and services, rising energy rates increase all consumer prices—from healthcare, heating and cooling, to running a local business and putting food on the table. In addition to our own monthly bills, we pay every rate hike over and over. The system is broken and has to change.”
MARK TONEY, TURN Executive Director
2026 TURN Affordability Bills
LIMIT UTILITY RATE INCREASES
SB 905 (Becker): Directs CPUC to lower monthly bills and reduce utility spending.
Advocates reducing shareholder profit for grid investments that reduce wildfire risk and increase safety, or are subject to limited CPUC review.
Links a portion of utility executive pay raises to keeping electricity rates under the rate of inflation. If bills keep skyrocketing, executives should share the pain.
Creates and publishes new metrics to set standards that all utilities are expected to meet when it comes to clean energy, safety, reliability, and reducing shutoffs.
Reduces unnecessary grid investments by requiring utilities to maximize the capacity of the existing network of poles, wires, and substations.
Creates public financing to build new transmission lines, and increase wildfire hardening, which costs ratepayers far less than expensive corporate financing.
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.
LIMIT DATA CENTER COSTS
SB 886 (Padilla): Requires all data centers to cover 100% of their costs for building new transmission and distribution power lines, developing new substations, and procuring additional energy supply. SB 886 sets a special data center tariff to minimize harmful cost shifts to residential, agricultural, small business, and industrial customers.
SB 887 (Padilla): Provides incentives to data centers that choose to pay the full cost of connecting tothe electrical grid, procure 100% clean energy, develop zero-carbon backup power, use recycled water, and cut back on energy use when needed. SB 887 incentivizes data centers to be good actors by making them eligible for expedited permitting if they meet high clean energy standards.
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