DWP Report Calls for Massive Power Rate Hikes
Friday, 26 February 2010
The long-awaited consulting report on pass-through electricity charges was released Friday, calling for an immediate 800 percent increase in the energy cost adjustment factor and increases every quarter that will raise overall power rates by more than 20 percent within a year.
The massive increases are being sought as DWP officials face intense pressure to have a revenue stream to be able to close at least four deals to buy solar and wind energy to meet the stand-mandated goal of 20 percent renewable energy by the end of this calendar year.
BOARD OF WATER AND POWER COMMISSIONERS’ MEETING OF TUESDAY, MARCH 2, 2010, CANCELLED
Los Angeles Electric Rate Linked to Solar Power
By JENNIFER
STEINHAUER, New York Times
Published: March 10, 2010
Now, the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power, the largest municipal utility in the United States, is poised to pass a roughly 5 percent rate increase on electricity use.
The commission that governs the utility, which is losing about $6 million a week or an estimated $500 million by the end of the 2011 fiscal year,
Increase of about $2.50 per month would help pay
for more solar energy use
A
year after Los Angeles voters shot down a proposal to spend more on
solar power, city officials want to hike electric rates by more than 5
percent to boost local solar energy use.
DWP ratepayers facing a bigger
possible surcharge
By David Zahniser, March
11, 2010
L.A.
kilowatt hour of electricity consumed. It’s expected to add $2 a month to the
bills of 55% of customers. Its effect on the other 45% isn’t known.
Mayor Villaraigosa postpones announcement on DWP surcharge hike.
March 12, 2010 | 7:48
am
Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa has postponed a Friday news
conference on his plan for hiking a surcharge for customers of the
Department of Water and Power, replacing that event with one that
focuses on his recent lobbying trip to Washington.
Chief Deputy Mayor Jay Carson said the 9:15 a.m. DWP announcement was rescheduled, in part to give Villaraigosa’s office more time to verify figures showing the impact of the plan on the utility’s residential customers.
It appears the DWP titanic has sunk.
‘Looks like a back door “B” to me. They’re absolutley despicable.
I’m starting to dare to be a little optimistic.
I think the word is getting out to the people about the kleptocracy we call City Hall.
Did you know that even Channel 7 covered this story? And they even talked to someone WAY outside the Mayor’s circle of press release spin monkeys, namely, Jack Humpreville himself!
Plus, I’m guessing that lying to the New York Times reporter did not help Villaraigosa’s cause. He told her the DWP is LOSING money. I’m guessing the NYT doesn’t appreciate politicians who tell such huge lies that they make the paper look idiotic for reporting them as true.
Keep hammering away, people. And remember: we now have less than a year before the election in which we can replace SEVEN of the 15 City Council Members.
The word is, there is infighting with contradictory proposals from the Mayor`s
“political team”, Freeman, DWP staff, and PA consulting. There is no consensus, thus the postponements and cancellations. We got them on the ropes and it can only get worse for them, as they have lost any credibility left. BTW, where is the Independent Watchdog, the Commission? I dare anyone to utter “Independent Watchdog” refering to those pussies.
When is Tim Rutten going to get off ” Subway to the Sea” and get on the “DWP Hihgway heist”?
Tim “Kim Il” Rutten will only change topics when the Mayor tells him.
BTW, should we call these new increases the “Ari Swiller Fund”?
Scott Johnson in CD 14
Tim “Kim Il” Rutten will only change topics when the Mayor tells him.
BTW, should we call these new increases the “Ari Swiller Fund”?
Scott Johnson in CD 14
lets hope los angeles rate payers have lost the love feeling for this crooks in city hall
if only the ones who have voted for this crooks see where we are sence this crook politicians took over there office they beging demanding more from them
but i gest things will begian changing when one can not aford paying bill from ladwp
if only the costomers from ladwp new lost of there money we pay to ladwp goes to elect this crooks in city hall and to general fund to los ageles the money was to come back to the rate payers not to those crooks
brian darcy the leader of the ladwp union is the one calling the shots for this crooks in city hall
let call it like it is brian darcy the leader of the union for ladwp is a mobster , and evry one in city hall are scare of this man.
when is the last time you see brian darcy in person in city hall he works in back door deals only
The painful thing about Tim Rutten and the LAT in general is how great a city we’d have if we had a newspaper. Rainey/Rutten & Co. all seem to be intelligent guys. Good neighbors. Doubtless nice people. So how can they possibly be so ignorant of history, economics, and basic gritty things in their own city? I suppose this is like wondering all thru the 80′s and 90′s when GM’s similarly clueless management would “get it.” But…the UK tried to go for wind/solar etc at the instance of a cabal that wanted tomorrow yesterday, and are now short of power in a bad way. That’s what’s going to happen here. It’ll cost jobs and oppress the poor with rate increases (no matter how DWP tries to pass those to others). Meanwhile the city is cutting services, it ended the bookmobiles, and its roads are like detroit’s and for what? So a union tree trimmer can make 54k? So an exec secretary at DWP can make 100k? The hilarious but sad “job booting” routine shown last week where union employees “boot” others beneath them-who does that benefit except sludgy city workers? No wonder Napoleon and Japan eliminated those pesky guilds and businessmen went around them to get work done elsewhere. Rainey/Rutten & Co. would do themselves and the City a major favor if they stopped recycling press releases,left their office (like GM’s management should have) and became reporters again–not press release readers–reporters. Talking to city employees. Getting documents mailed to them anonymously. No more reporting from the top sources down, but getting the facts from the bottom up. And report on this city–not punjib, not new york–this city. But..they are the Roger Smith’s of Los Angeles. How proud everone will be 5 years from now of our newspaper and their “journalists” and our city and its “mayor” and city council.
My slave is looking into solar…let’s beat them at their own game.
Wags to Bruno.
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How does the math here work? A stated increase of
$2.50 for the average Tier 1 user. The Tier 1
limit is 1000 kWH which translates to a $27
increase. I’m currently paying about 12 cents
per kWH so a 2.7c increase is an over 20% increase
in rates.
So which is it? A $2.50 increase or a 20% increase?