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Public Advocates Office urges four 'levers' to curb rising electricity bills
Summary
The Public Advocates Office presented four policy levers — scrutinize operating budgets in general rate cases, lower financing costs for capital projects, sunset non–cost‑effective programs, and redesign subsidies and rate structures — and provided estimates of potential savings.
Linda Serizawa, the newly appointed director of the Public Advocates Office (CalPA), told the Senate Committee on Energy, Utilities and Communications that addressing electricity affordability requires pulling multiple policy levers at once.
"There are four policy levers that need to be pulled, and they all need to be pulled," Serizawa told the committee. She framed the four levers as: (1) reduce operations and maintenance costs through rigorous scrutiny in the CPUC's general rate case (GRC) process; (2) lower borrowing costs for major infrastructure projects through alternative financing (public debt, securitization, or other models); (3) phase out or sunset ratepayer…
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