Regular Council Meeting
April 24, 2025
FRESNO CITY COUNClL
2-U (ID 25-589)
Supplement Packet
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RESOLUTION - Opposing Assembly Bill 942, Standing United Against Unfair Tariffs
Contents of Supplement: Correspondence in Opposition of Assembly Bill 942
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California has repeatedly upheld the state’s decision to honor rooftop solar contracts for the twenty-year life of the solar panels. The CPUC’s own consumer guide requires solar contracts under the state’s net metering policy be guaranteed for twenty years. When customers took the risk to invest in solar, they signed a state mandated legal agreement with their utility that specified in the terms and conditions that the rooftop solar system can stay on the net metering plan for twenty years from the time of interconnecting the solar panels to the electric grid.
This is based on a long standing policy that solar customers have the same terms for twenty years, or the expected life of the solar system, a ffirmed by Governor
Jerry Brown in his signing letter for SB 327 in 2013, and the CPUC in 2014 and again in 2022.
The CPUC’s new proposal, to break energy contracts mid-stream, would be patently unfair. It would punish the very people who California encouraged to invest in solar energy. And it would gut consumer con
fidence and trust in
government, right when
we need more Californians to make the choice to invest in clean energy technologies.
California should address the cause of high electricity rates, which is out of control utility spending to maximize profit.
The data is clear that more than 90% of the rate hikes over the last decade are driven by increased utility spending. PG&E, SoCal Edison, and SDG&E spending on poles and wires increased by 300% over the last twenty years, even though peak electricity demand was flat. Only 12%
of that spending was for wildfire mitigation,
according
to the utilities’ own rate filings.
To address rising rates, California must focus on what’s really wrong with our energy system: uncontrolled utility spending and record utility profits. We’ll never
control rates or meet our goals for clean, reliable energy if we don’t get at these roots of the problem.
The utilities already get a state authorized 10% or higher profit from every dollar
they spend on poles and wires. The CPUC is considering a new proposal to increase these already excessive profit rates, despite record utility profits and evidence that this structure is creating a perverse incentive for them to spend more than necessary.
In contrast, California’s two million rooftop solar consumers are saving all other ratepayers $1.5 billion in 2024 alone according to a study endorsed by more than a dozen of the top energy economists.
California leaders should stop blaming consumers for the errors and missteps of the state’s private utility companies and the inability for the CPUC to rein in their out of control spending. Reneging on two million contracts would not only be unfair but it would reduce energy choices for consumers, and threaten a promising solution to rein in future costs.
Against a backdrop of out-of-control rate increases and a range of confusing utility bill fees and charges, California ratepayers are now threatened by a proposal to break California’s promise on solar energy.
Unfortunately, instead of protecting consumers, California’s chief cop on the beat—the Public Utilities Commission— is considering punishing them. Instead of focusing on what’s really wrong with electric utilities—out of control spending and pro
fit making
on the backs of ratepayers—the CPUC is now pushing to break the contracts with two million solar homes, schools, and businesses. This would be a terrible move for California.
Please reject AB 942 and the CPUC's proposal to break 2 million rooftop solar customer contracts and urge them to focus on the real source of high rates:
increased utility spending. AB 942 would increase rates, limit choice, derail the state's clean energy progress, erode public trust in government, and avoid the hard work of actually reforming our state’s utility industry.
This is a crossroads moment for California: if the state is truly serious about tackling both air pollution, energy reliability and electricity rates, it will focus on utility spending and stand with consumers who need more choice, clean air, and more affordable energy.
Laura Deehan
State Director
Environment California
Jenn Engstrom
State Director
CALPIRG
Bernadette Del Chiaro
Senior Vice President, California
Environmental Working Group
Jamie Court
President
Consumer Watchdog
Jakob Evans
Policy Strategist
Sierra Club California
Gregory Stevens
Northern California Policy Director
California Interfaith Power and Light
Ben Schwartz
Policy Manager
The Clean Coalition
Dave Rosenfeld
Executive Director
Solar Rights Alliance
Karinna Gonzalez
Deputy Director
Hammond Climate Solutions Foundation
RL Miller
Co-founder
Climate Hawks Vote
Dave Shukla
Operations
Long Beach Alliance for Clean Energy
Pat Kelly-Fischer
Board Member
Environmental Action
Susan Morgan
Founder
Indivisible Marin
Lisa Swanson
Policy Chair
Climate Reality Project, Orange County Chapter
Suzanne Hume
Educational Director & Founder
CleanEarth4Kids.org
Roger Lin
Senior Attorney
Center for Biological Diversity
Carolyn Chase
CEO
San Diego EarthWorks
Isaiah Glasoe
Founder
SDRPU
Eric Brooks
Coordinator
Californians for Energy Choice
Eric Brooks
Campaign Coordinator
Our City San Francisco
Andrew Carman
Director
Environteers.org
Ellie Cohen
CEO
The Climate Center
Tara Barauskas
Executive Director
Community Corp. of Santa Monica
Wendi Kallins
President
Sustainable Marin
Jim Mahler
President
AFT Guild, Local 1931
Pauline Seales
Organizer
Santa Cruz Climate Action Network
Laura Neish
Executive Director
350 Bay Area Action
Kae Bender
Secretary
SocioEnergetics Foundation
Richard Skaff
Executive Director
Designing Accessible Communities
Jose Torre-Bueno
Executive Director
Center for Community Energy
Jan Dietrick
Policy Lead
350 Ventura County Climate Hub
Jill ZamEk
Board Member
San Luis Obispo Mothers for Peace
Sherry Lear
Steering Committee
350 Southland Legislative Alliance
Sherry Lear
Organizer
350 South Bay Los Angeles
Eric Lever
1st Vice President
Democratic Club of West Orange County
Rev. Pastor Ambrose Carroll, Esperanza Vielma, Francisco Moreno Co-founders
Coalition for Environmental Equity and Economics (CEEE)
Esperanza Vielma
Executive Director
Environmental Justice Coalition for Water (EJCW)
Rev. Pastor Ambrose Carroll
Executive Director
Green the Church
Francisco Moreno
Executive Director
COFEM (the Mexican Federations in the United States)
Destiny Rivas
Executive Director
San Joaquin Urban Native Council
Centro Binacional para el Desarrollo Indígena Oaxaqueño
Todos Unidos
Federación de Guanajuatenses
Cafe Coop
FECAMIN (Federation of Clubs and Associations of Michoacanos in North America)
Anahuak Youth Soccer Association
Federación de Clubes y Asociaciones
Federación Duranguenese USA
Organización Regional de Oaxaca Por El Respeto y La Defensa De Nuestra Cultura
Federación de Nayaritas en Estados Unidos
Federación de Clubes Colima
Sonora USA
Mujeres Unidas Sirviendo Activamente MUSA
The Federation of Hidalguenses in California
Fraternidad Sinaloense de California FSC
Karen Nelson
Exec. Director
Climate Breakthrough
Magi Amma
President
The Climate Alliance
Shoshana Wechsler
Co-Coordinator
Sunflower Alliance
Sharon Broberg
Steering Committee Member
350 Santa Barbara
Felipe Aguirre
Director
Comite Pro Uno
Daniel Chandler
Steering Committee Member
350 Humboldt
Liat Meitzzenheimer
President
Fresh Air Vallejo
Rebecca Elliot
Admin
Indivisible San Jose
Glen Brand
Vice President, Policy. & Advocacy
Solar United Neighbors Action
Robert Whitehair
Co-Leader
San Mateo Climate Action Team
Ronnie Lipschutz
President
Sustainable Systems Research Foundation
Matthew Gillian
Executive director
Inspiration Transportation
Sonoma County Climate Activist Network (SoCoCAN!)
Jennifer Tanner
Leader
Indivisible CA Green Team
Ogie Strogatz
Member, Steering Committee
Indivisible ReSisters Contra Costa
Ruth Richardson
Co-leader
Rooted in Resistance
Adriene Couter
Leader
Rooted in Resistance (Indivisible Ventura)
Sally Mentzer
Chair, Pastoral Care Committee
Unitarian Universalist Church in Redwood City
Kyle Ferrar
Western Program Director
FracTracker Alliance
Jack Eidt
Co-Founder
SoCal 350 Climate Action
Robert Gould, MD
President
San Francisco Bay Physicians for Social Responsibility
Steve Bardwell
President
Morongo Basin Conservation Association
Michael J. Painter
Coordinator
Californians for Western Wilderness
Alan Weiner
Chapter lead
350 Conejo / San Fernando Valley
Lynne Baker
Co-chair
Napa Climate NOW!/350 Bay Area Group
Eileen Mitro
Coordinator
Climate Action Mendocino
Susan St Louis
Chair of Climate Crisis Committee
Courageous Resistance and Indivisible of the Desert
Tama Becker-Varano
Leadership Team
Change Begins With ME
Kathy Kerridge
Board Member
Good Neighbor Steering Committee of Benicia
Joseph Hayden
Vice Chair
United Democrats of Southern Solano County
Nathan Taft
Senior Campaigner
Stand.earth
Rocky Fernandez
Senior Policy Director
Center for Sustainable Energy
Martin Bourque
Executive Director
Ecology Center
Katie McCammon
Program Director
350 Sacramento
Leah Redwood
California Climate Justice Organizer
Oil and Gas Action Network
Barbara Rhine
Co-Chair, Legislative Working Group
1000 Grandmothers for Future Generations
Adam Aron
Professor
UCSD Green New Deal
Emi Yoko-Young
Policy Organizer
Reclaim Our Power
Karen Reside
President
Long Beach Gray Panthers
Cherry Robinson
Chapter Chair
Climate Reality Project San Diego
Sven Thesen
Co-Founder
Project Green Home
Lynda Marin
Chapter Lead
Citizens' Climate Lobby, Santa Cruz Chapter
Tim Oey
Advocate
ZeroW.org
Kristel Rietesel
Administrator
Bay Area Clean Air Coalition
Rani Fischer
Member
Peninsula Interfaith Climate Action
Jessica Tovar
Executive Director
Local Clean Energy Alliance
Marge Matoba
Co-Chair Service & Justice Ministry
Davis United Methodist Church
Elise Kalfayan
Board Member
Glendale Environmental Coalition
Thomas Bowman
President
Bowman Change, Inc.
G Mario Fernandez
Chair
Humboldt Democratic Central Committee
Michael Mulligan
Legislative Analyst
NorCal Elder Climate Action
Richard Burke
Chapter Leaderkkkk
SoCal Elder Climate Action
Katharine Harrison
Chair, Legislative Team
San Diego 350
Michelle Merrill
Organizer
Scientist Rebellion Turtle Island West
Faye Johnson
Indivisible CA StateStrong Liaison
Indivisible Santa Cruz County
Barbara Stebbins
Steering Committee member
California Alliance for Community Energy (CACE)
John Comiskey
Steering Committee Co-Chair
Dean Democratic Club of Silicon Valley
Matt Schlegel
Organizer
Fridays For Future Palo Alto
Phil Glosserman
Lead Facilitator
Third Act SoCal
Natalie Beebe
Secretary
Santa Cruz Indivisible Friends of the Environment
Martha Sellers
Co-facilitator
Bay Area Third Act Working Group
Jimmy Gow
President
Torrance Democratic Club
Leslie Alden
Executive Director
Act Now Bay Area
Dennessa Atiles
Organizer
Indivisible CA: StateStrong
Janet Cox
CEO
Climate Action California
Jonathan Klein
Co-Founder and CEO
UndauntedK12
Deborah Moore
Campaign Strategist
Third Act
Chris Peck
President
Urban Ecology Project
Cheryl Auger
Owner
Ban SUP (Ban SUP (Ban Single use plastic)
Steve Hahn-Smith
Deputy Director
Contra Costa County Health Services
Victor Sella Villa
VP of Labor Relations
United Contractors
Nancy Chaires Espinoza
Executive Director
School Energy Coalition