Staff outlines approach for 2025 rate changes; SDG&E filing delays push board recommendation to Feb. 7

San Diego Community Power staff presented a rate‑setting update on Jan. 23 and said they will return to the board on Feb. 7 with specific recommended 2025 rate options and ask the board to set rates retroactive to Feb. 1, 2025 when possible.

Aaron Liu, rates and strategy manager, and Lucas Uzo, senior director of data analytics and customer operations, said the timing of Community Power’s rate decision is affected by San Diego Gas & Electric’s (SDG&E) consolidated rate filing. SDG&E filed late and the California Public Utilities Commission adopted a requested extension that pushed implementation of SDG&E’s 2025 rates to Feb. 1, 2025; Community Power staff said they are analyzing SDG&E’s updated commodity and PCIA numbers and will model multiple scenarios.

Staff reiterated policy objectives adopted in Community Power’s rate development policy: fiscal responsibility and cost recovery, competitiveness and customer value, equity, and rate stability. Because customers enrolled in CCA service at different times carry different PCIA vintages, staff confirmed it will recommend three sets of rates (a “trifurcation”) to preserve equitable relative discounts among customer cohorts rather than creating winners and losers across vintages.

Aaron Liu said SDG&E’s January 21 filing reduced its earlier projected commodity increase; staff noted the power charge indifference adjustment (PCIA) remains a sizable and continuing factor in Community Power’s competitiveness. Staff plans to monitor any additional SDG&E updates at the CPUC and to present a recommended rate package for board action on Feb. 7 with proposed retroactive effective dates tied to SDG&E’s February 1 rate implementation.