WHAT’s IN YOUR BILL?

Below are only some of the items being funded by your household electric bill:

Subsidies for rooftop solar customers

Non-solar customers are paying higher bills to subsidize roughly $6.5 billion in rooftop solar incentives alone, according to the California Public Advocate’s Office.

This amount has grown at a staggering pace and has nearly doubled since 2021.

For Northern and Central California, non-solar customers’ bills would be 14 percent lower without the subsidies being paid to their neighbors with solar panels. Down south in San Diego, that figure is 17 percent.

Public Purpose Programs

Today, your energy bills pay for investments in energy efficiency, electric vehicle charging infrastructure, research and development efforts and more.

These charges, known as “public purpose programs,” account for nearly 8 percent of Californian’s energy bills.

SOLAR SUBSIDIES OUTPACE WILDFIRE MITIGATION

Between 2019 and 2022, the state’s largest energy companies collectively invested an average of $3.1 billion in wildfire mitigation work each year due to state mandated mitigation plans and policies that hold energy companies, and their customers, financially liable for wildfires even when they follow all safety and maintenance requirements.

Wildfire has been a crisis in California, yet due to state mandates, energy customers are expected to pay twice as much to subsidize rooftop solar in 2024 than they paid for wildfire mitigation during that four-year period!