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He noted that those groups coordinate emergency response and wildfire training. When the war in Ukraine started, the Edison Electric Institute — a national association representing investor-owned utilities — sought to find surplus equipment to be sent to Ukraine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s a lot of benefits to customers,” Ebeck said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bill was part of a larger backlash against California’s rising electricity cost. 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It would also allow regulators to fine utilities that break the rules.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Monday, the bill failed to pass a legislative committee for the second time in the face of intense opposition from utilities, including Pacific Gas & Electric.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve seen too many examples of the blatant misuse of ratepayer funds across the state,” said Democratic state Sen. Dave Min, who authored the bill that failed to pass on Monday. “I know that consumers are outraged by this.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>PG&E opposed the bill because it said it would take away the power of state regulators to examine utility companies’ costs and decide whether it is “just or reasonable″ for customers to pay for them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Plus, PG&E lobbyist Brandon Ebeck said it’s appropriate for customers to pay for the company’s membership fees that go to various industry associations because they benefit customers. He noted that those groups coordinate emergency response and wildfire training. When the war in Ukraine started, the Edison Electric Institute — a national association representing investor-owned utilities — sought to find surplus equipment to be sent to Ukraine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s a lot of benefits to customers,” Ebeck said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bill was part of a larger backlash against California’s rising electricity cost. Power is expensive in California partly because of the work required to maintain and upgrade electrical equipment to reduce the risk of wildfires in a state with long, dry summers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As rates have continued to climb, utilities like Pacific Gas & Electric, Southern California Edison and San Diego Gas & Electric have faced increasing scrutiny from consumer groups over how they spend the money they collect from customers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Matt Vespa, senior attorney at the environmental advocacy group Earthjustice, said Monday’s vote was “incredibly disappointing.” He said the current rules for utilities “incentivizes them to see what they can get away with.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As an example, Min and consumer groups noted PG&E spent up to $6 million in TV ads to tout its plan to bury power lines to reduce wildfire risk, which some consumer groups opposed because it \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/pge-rates-california-wildfires-99be6963a57b1f4812a056be93cec50f\">increased customers’ bills\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The ads first aired in 2022 and featured CEO Patti Poppe in a company-branded hard hat, saying the company is “transforming your hometown utility from the ground up.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The utility recorded the expenses for those ads as coming from a customer-funded account dedicated to reducing wildfire risk, as first reported by the \u003ca href=\"https://www.sacbee.com/news/california/article287598875.html\">Sacramento Bee\u003c/a>. PG&E spokesperson Lynsey Paulo said the company has not yet asked regulators to review that expense. The California Public Utilities Commission will decide whether customer funds can pay for the ads.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Paulo noted state regulators allow utilities to use money from customers to pay for safety communications on television.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our customers have told us they want to know how we are investing to improve safety and reliability,” Paulo said. “We also use digital and email communications, but some customers do not have internet or email access, so we use methods including television spots to communicate with all of our customers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some consumer groups say the ads have crossed the line.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Only at PG&E would (Poppe’s) attempts at brand rehabilitation be considered a ‘safety message,’” said Mark Toney, executive director of the Utility Reform Network. “This blatant misuse of ratepayer funds is exactly why we need SB 938 and its clear rules and required disclosures for advertising costs.”\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11983800/bill-to-curb-california-utilities-use-of-customer-money-fails-to-pass","authors":["byline_news_11983800"],"categories":["news_8"],"tags":["news_21973","news_1092","news_33611"],"featImg":"news_11722572","label":"news"},"news_11972887":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11972887","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11972887","score":null,"sort":[1705608006000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"pge-rates-are-way-up-do-you-qualify-for-a-discount","title":"PG&E Rates Are Way Up. Do You Qualify for a Discount?","publishDate":1705608006,"format":"standard","headTitle":"PG&E Rates Are Way Up. Do You Qualify for a Discount? | KQED","labelTerm":{"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>There’s no getting around it: Your utility bill is going to be rough this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>PG&E has raised their rates as of Jan. 1, 2024 — increasing the average \u003ca href=\"https://www.pgecurrents.com/articles/3903-energy-bill-s-ahead-lower-energy-costs\">Californian household’s gas and electricity bills by 13%\u003c/a>, translating into a monthly increase of $34.50 — or $414 on the year. [aside postID=forum_2010101895461 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/43/2019/10/pge-1020x574.jpg']\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1985398/california-regulators-set-to-vote-on-pges-newest-rate-increase-plan\">State regulators approved the increases\u003c/a> in November to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101895461/historic-pge-rate-increases-will-hit-hard-in-2024#:~:text=PG%26E%20is%20hiking%20their%20rates,rate%20hikes%20on%20the%20horizon.\">help PG&E pay for burying power lines to prevent wildfires\u003c/a>, although the utility said that these increases on your bill will also fund investments in clean energy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And there could be more rate hikes in the future, which\u003ca href=\"https://docs.google.com/document/d/1tu922XGuGIxHSqNWw3ynQSYGZlry__F4Z19dhPGQav0/edit\"> environmental and housing groups in California petitioned Gov. Gavin Newsom to repeal\u003c/a> in a letter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We object to the un-democratic and opaque way in which the Utility Tax was enacted, passed in three days without any public hearings or discussion,” the letter reads. “The people of California deserve a voice in any major policy change with such wide-ranging consequences.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11970332/rising-utility-costs-compound-californias-housing-crisis\">Such a sharp rise in utility bills can be a breaking point for some households\u003c/a>. However, depending on how much you earn, you may qualify for some assistance through two of \u003ca href=\"https://www.pge.com/en/account/billing-and-assistance/financial-assistance/california-alternate-rates-for-energy-program.html\">PG&E’s programs called CARE and FERA\u003c/a>, both of which offer a discount on your bills.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What is CARE?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>CARE is PG&E’s California Alternate Rates for Energy program, and it allows for \u003ca href=\"https://www.pge.com/en/account/billing-and-assistance/financial-assistance/california-alternate-rates-for-energy-program.html\">a monthly discount of 20% or more on your gas and electricity\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you qualify for the discount, you can benefit from it for up to two years before you need to reapply again. If you are on a fixed income, however, the discount will last for four years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The discount will apply in the next PG&E bill you receive — and will have “CARE DISCOUNT” written on your bill. \u003ca href=\"https://www.pge.com/content/dam/pge/docs/account/billing-and-assistance/EN_tips.pdf\">Here’s what that bill may look like (PDF).\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>How do I know if I am qualified for CARE?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Your eligibility for PG&E’s CARE program is based on your household income, like your salary, Social Security and pensions, before taxes. This number will be the combined total of each household member’s income.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For one to two people, it is $39,440 or less. For a household of four, it is $60,000 or less. See \u003ca href=\"https://www.pge.com/en/account/billing-and-assistance/financial-assistance/california-alternate-rates-for-energy-program.html#incometable\">the rest of the income table \u003c/a>from PG&E. (The income guidelines change every year in June, and PG&E asks that you reapply whenever your income situation changes. You can call 1-866-743-2273 or email \u003ca href=\"mailto:CAREandFERA@pge.com\">CAREandFERA@pge.com\u003c/a> if you have specific questions about your bill.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Proof of income is not required during the CARE application process. However, \u003ca href=\"https://www.pge.com/en/account/billing-and-assistance/financial-assistance/california-alternate-rates-for-energy-program.html\">households may be chosen as random to provide proof\u003c/a>. If you are chosen to prove your income, \u003ca href=\"https://www.pge.com/content/dam/pge/docs/account/billing-and-assistance/EN_income_guide.pdf\">here is PG&E’s guide to navigating that process (PDF).\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are also \u003ca href=\"https://www.pge.com/en/account/billing-and-assistance/financial-assistance/california-alternate-rates-for-energy-program.html#accordion-featured-e3ebf4de67-item-59286abf1a\">a couple of other requirements for a household, including\u003c/a>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>The PG&E bill must be in your name.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>You must be living at the address where you are requesting the discount.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Another person — besides a spouse — cannot be claiming you as a dependent on an income tax return.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>You cannot share the energy meter with another house.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>You must reach out to PG&E if you no longer qualify for the discount.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Your monthly electricity usage cannot exceed six times the “Tier 1 allowance.” \u003ca href=\"https://www.pge.com/content/dam/pge/docs/account/billing-and-assistance/EN_tips.pdf\">Page one of this PDF explains how you can calculate your baseline allowance\u003c/a>.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>You may qualify for the CARE program if you or someone living with is part of public assistance programs like:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Women, Infants and Children (WIC)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>CalFresh/SNAP (Food Stamps)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>CalWORKs (TANF) or Tribal TANF\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Head Start Income Eligible (Tribal Only)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Supplemental Security Income (SSI)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Medi-Cal for Families (Healthy Families A & B)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>National School Lunch Program (NSLP)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Bureau of Indian Affairs General Assistance\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Medicaid/Medi-Cal (under age 65)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Medicaid/Medi-Cal (age 65 and over)\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>For a quick way to determine if you qualify, fill out \u003ca href=\"https://m.pge.com/?_gl=1*i3pjok*_gcl_au*Nzc0NjU1NTUxLjE3MDUwMTYxMzc.#login\">this form when signed into your PG&E account\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>How do I apply for PG&E’s CARE program?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>You can apply for \u003ca href=\"https://www.pge.com/en/account/billing-and-assistance/financial-assistance/california-alternate-rates-for-energy-program.html#accordion-featured-9f314a2497-item-a9a50c0ff8\">a new CARE application, renew a CARE application or cancel your enrollment online\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You can also complete the forms in the following languages:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.pge.com/en/myhome/saveenergymoney/financialassistance/care/enrollrecertify/espanol/index.page\">Español, Solicite ahora Programas CARE/FERA — Inscripción/Re-inscripción\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.pge.com/en/myhome/saveenergymoney/financialassistance/care/enrollrecertify/chinese/index.page\">中文, 申請 CARE/FERA計劃-申請或從新申請 -第 1 步\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.pge.com/content/dam/pge/docs/account/billing-and-assistance/care-fera-application-vi.pdf\">Việt, Các ứng dụng trực tuyến không khả dụng\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch2>What if I am a sub-metered tenant?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>A sub-metered tenant means \u003ca href=\"https://www.pge.com/en/account/billing-and-assistance/understand-your-bill/sub-metered-tenant-and-landlord.html#:~:text=metered%20customer%20obligations-,Sub%2Dmetered%20tenants,are%20a%20sub%2Dmetered%20tenant.\">your landlord bills you\u003c/a> for electricity and gas, not PG&E. It also means you are not a PG&E customer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Luckily, this doesn’t stop you from applying to the CARE program\u003ca href=\"https://www.pge.com/content/dam/pge/docs/account/billing-and-assistance/care-fera-application-sub-meter-en.pdf\"> here (PDF)\u003c/a> — you will just have to complete this different application.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Your landlord is responsible for ensuring the CARE discount appears on your bill. Learn more about your rights as \u003ca href=\"https://www.pge.com/en/account/billing-and-assistance/understand-your-bill/sub-metered-tenant-and-landlord.html#:~:text=metered%20customer%20obligations-,Sub%2Dmetered%20tenants,are%20a%20sub%2Dmetered%20tenant.\">a sub-metered tenant on PG&E’s website.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>I don’t qualify for CARE. Is there an alternative?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>If you submit a CARE application, you are also automatically screened to see if you qualify for \u003ca href=\"https://www.pge.com/en/account/billing-and-assistance/financial-assistance/family-electric-rate-assistance-program-fera.html\">the Family Electric Rate Assistance (FERA) program\u003c/a>. The two share an application, with the difference being that FERA has slightly higher income requirements. However, you cannot enroll in both CARE and FERA.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>FERA offers an 18% discount on electric rates but not gas. To qualify, you have three or more people in a household and meet income requirements. For a household of three, that is $49,721–$62,150. For a household of four, that is $60,001–$75,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The FERA \u003ca href=\"https://www.pge.com/en/account/billing-and-assistance/financial-assistance/family-electric-rate-assistance-program-fera.html#accordion-1df6cab0ba-item-243ce102c7\">discount also applies for two years\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Are there other PG&E programs I should know about?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>For one-time assistance with your utility bill, check out:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>PG&E’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.pge.com/en/save-energy-and-money/energy-saving-programs/energy-savings-assistance-program.html\">\u003cstrong>Energy Savings Assistance program\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>, in which renters improve appliances or their home with environmental upgrades if their income qualifies them for the program. For one person, the threshold is $36,450 or less. For a household of four, it is $75,000 or less.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>PG&E’s \u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.pge.com/en/account/billing-and-assistance/financial-assistance/relief-for-energy-assistance-through-community-help.html\">Relief for Energy Assistance through Community Help\u003c/a>, \u003c/strong>in which low-income families can receive up to $1,000 on a bill of no more than $2,000.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.csd.ca.gov/Pages/Assistance-PayingMyEnergyBills.aspx\">Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>, which is one-time federally funded assistance for low-income families.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Read: \u003c/strong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11954197/how-to-find-free-or-lower-cost-wi-fi-in-the-bay-area\">\u003cstrong>How to Find Free or Lower-Cost Wi-Fi in the Bay Area\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For long-term assistance with your utility bills, there are:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>PG&E’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.pge.com/en/account/billing-and-assistance/financial-assistance/medical-baseline-program.html#accordion-00d56f906d-item-43afe8c4a2\">\u003cstrong>Medical Baseline Program\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> is for residential customers who use medical equipment that depends on power, such as an apnea monitor and a dialysis machine. It could also help ensure \u003ca href=\"https://www.pge.com/en/outages-and-safety/outage-preparedness-and-support.html\">PG&E does not shut off your power during severe weather threats\u003c/a>. \u003ca href=\"https://m.pge.com/?_gl=1*wtxnl4*_gcl_au*Nzc0NjU1NTUxLjE3MDUwMTYxMzc.#forcelogin\">Apply for the Medical Baseline Program online\u003c/a>. There are also \u003ca href=\"https://www.pge.com/en/account/billing-and-assistance/financial-assistance/vulnerable-customer-status.html\">different ways for vulnerable customers to contact PG&E for assistance in these cases\u003c/a>.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>PG&E’s \u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.pge.com/en/account/billing-and-assistance/financial-assistance/arrearage-management-plan-amp.html\">Arrearage Management Plan\u003c/a> \u003c/strong>is a debt forgiveness plan of up to $8,000 if enrolled in CARE or FERA. \u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.pge.com/en/account/billing-and-assistance/financial-assistance/arrearage-management-plan-amp.html\">Check other requirements for enrolling in this plan\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"As of Jan. 1, PG&E has increased your utility bill. Here’s how to potentially find help with these costs — and who qualifies for enrollment in a discount scheme.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1705628710,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":27,"wordCount":1276},"headData":{"title":"PG&E Rates Are Way Up. Do You Qualify for a Discount? | KQED","description":"As of Jan. 1, PG&E has increased your utility bill. Here’s how to potentially find help with these costs — and who qualifies for enrollment in a discount scheme.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"PG&E Rates Are Way Up. Do You Qualify for a Discount?","datePublished":"2024-01-18T20:00:06.000Z","dateModified":"2024-01-19T01:45:10.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"Y","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"sticky":false,"excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","articleAge":"0","path":"/news/11972887/pge-rates-are-way-up-do-you-qualify-for-a-discount","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>There’s no getting around it: Your utility bill is going to be rough this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>PG&E has raised their rates as of Jan. 1, 2024 — increasing the average \u003ca href=\"https://www.pgecurrents.com/articles/3903-energy-bill-s-ahead-lower-energy-costs\">Californian household’s gas and electricity bills by 13%\u003c/a>, translating into a monthly increase of $34.50 — or $414 on the year. \u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"forum_2010101895461","hero":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/43/2019/10/pge-1020x574.jpg","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1985398/california-regulators-set-to-vote-on-pges-newest-rate-increase-plan\">State regulators approved the increases\u003c/a> in November to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101895461/historic-pge-rate-increases-will-hit-hard-in-2024#:~:text=PG%26E%20is%20hiking%20their%20rates,rate%20hikes%20on%20the%20horizon.\">help PG&E pay for burying power lines to prevent wildfires\u003c/a>, although the utility said that these increases on your bill will also fund investments in clean energy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And there could be more rate hikes in the future, which\u003ca href=\"https://docs.google.com/document/d/1tu922XGuGIxHSqNWw3ynQSYGZlry__F4Z19dhPGQav0/edit\"> environmental and housing groups in California petitioned Gov. Gavin Newsom to repeal\u003c/a> in a letter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We object to the un-democratic and opaque way in which the Utility Tax was enacted, passed in three days without any public hearings or discussion,” the letter reads. “The people of California deserve a voice in any major policy change with such wide-ranging consequences.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11970332/rising-utility-costs-compound-californias-housing-crisis\">Such a sharp rise in utility bills can be a breaking point for some households\u003c/a>. However, depending on how much you earn, you may qualify for some assistance through two of \u003ca href=\"https://www.pge.com/en/account/billing-and-assistance/financial-assistance/california-alternate-rates-for-energy-program.html\">PG&E’s programs called CARE and FERA\u003c/a>, both of which offer a discount on your bills.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What is CARE?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>CARE is PG&E’s California Alternate Rates for Energy program, and it allows for \u003ca href=\"https://www.pge.com/en/account/billing-and-assistance/financial-assistance/california-alternate-rates-for-energy-program.html\">a monthly discount of 20% or more on your gas and electricity\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you qualify for the discount, you can benefit from it for up to two years before you need to reapply again. If you are on a fixed income, however, the discount will last for four years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The discount will apply in the next PG&E bill you receive — and will have “CARE DISCOUNT” written on your bill. \u003ca href=\"https://www.pge.com/content/dam/pge/docs/account/billing-and-assistance/EN_tips.pdf\">Here’s what that bill may look like (PDF).\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>How do I know if I am qualified for CARE?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Your eligibility for PG&E’s CARE program is based on your household income, like your salary, Social Security and pensions, before taxes. This number will be the combined total of each household member’s income.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For one to two people, it is $39,440 or less. For a household of four, it is $60,000 or less. See \u003ca href=\"https://www.pge.com/en/account/billing-and-assistance/financial-assistance/california-alternate-rates-for-energy-program.html#incometable\">the rest of the income table \u003c/a>from PG&E. (The income guidelines change every year in June, and PG&E asks that you reapply whenever your income situation changes. You can call 1-866-743-2273 or email \u003ca href=\"mailto:CAREandFERA@pge.com\">CAREandFERA@pge.com\u003c/a> if you have specific questions about your bill.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Proof of income is not required during the CARE application process. However, \u003ca href=\"https://www.pge.com/en/account/billing-and-assistance/financial-assistance/california-alternate-rates-for-energy-program.html\">households may be chosen as random to provide proof\u003c/a>. If you are chosen to prove your income, \u003ca href=\"https://www.pge.com/content/dam/pge/docs/account/billing-and-assistance/EN_income_guide.pdf\">here is PG&E’s guide to navigating that process (PDF).\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are also \u003ca href=\"https://www.pge.com/en/account/billing-and-assistance/financial-assistance/california-alternate-rates-for-energy-program.html#accordion-featured-e3ebf4de67-item-59286abf1a\">a couple of other requirements for a household, including\u003c/a>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>The PG&E bill must be in your name.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>You must be living at the address where you are requesting the discount.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Another person — besides a spouse — cannot be claiming you as a dependent on an income tax return.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>You cannot share the energy meter with another house.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>You must reach out to PG&E if you no longer qualify for the discount.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Your monthly electricity usage cannot exceed six times the “Tier 1 allowance.” \u003ca href=\"https://www.pge.com/content/dam/pge/docs/account/billing-and-assistance/EN_tips.pdf\">Page one of this PDF explains how you can calculate your baseline allowance\u003c/a>.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>You may qualify for the CARE program if you or someone living with is part of public assistance programs like:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Women, Infants and Children (WIC)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>CalFresh/SNAP (Food Stamps)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>CalWORKs (TANF) or Tribal TANF\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Head Start Income Eligible (Tribal Only)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Supplemental Security Income (SSI)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Medi-Cal for Families (Healthy Families A & B)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>National School Lunch Program (NSLP)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Bureau of Indian Affairs General Assistance\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Medicaid/Medi-Cal (under age 65)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Medicaid/Medi-Cal (age 65 and over)\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>For a quick way to determine if you qualify, fill out \u003ca href=\"https://m.pge.com/?_gl=1*i3pjok*_gcl_au*Nzc0NjU1NTUxLjE3MDUwMTYxMzc.#login\">this form when signed into your PG&E account\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>How do I apply for PG&E’s CARE program?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>You can apply for \u003ca href=\"https://www.pge.com/en/account/billing-and-assistance/financial-assistance/california-alternate-rates-for-energy-program.html#accordion-featured-9f314a2497-item-a9a50c0ff8\">a new CARE application, renew a CARE application or cancel your enrollment online\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You can also complete the forms in the following languages:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.pge.com/en/myhome/saveenergymoney/financialassistance/care/enrollrecertify/espanol/index.page\">Español, Solicite ahora Programas CARE/FERA — Inscripción/Re-inscripción\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.pge.com/en/myhome/saveenergymoney/financialassistance/care/enrollrecertify/chinese/index.page\">中文, 申請 CARE/FERA計劃-申請或從新申請 -第 1 步\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.pge.com/content/dam/pge/docs/account/billing-and-assistance/care-fera-application-vi.pdf\">Việt, Các ứng dụng trực tuyến không khả dụng\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch2>What if I am a sub-metered tenant?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>A sub-metered tenant means \u003ca href=\"https://www.pge.com/en/account/billing-and-assistance/understand-your-bill/sub-metered-tenant-and-landlord.html#:~:text=metered%20customer%20obligations-,Sub%2Dmetered%20tenants,are%20a%20sub%2Dmetered%20tenant.\">your landlord bills you\u003c/a> for electricity and gas, not PG&E. It also means you are not a PG&E customer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Luckily, this doesn’t stop you from applying to the CARE program\u003ca href=\"https://www.pge.com/content/dam/pge/docs/account/billing-and-assistance/care-fera-application-sub-meter-en.pdf\"> here (PDF)\u003c/a> — you will just have to complete this different application.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Your landlord is responsible for ensuring the CARE discount appears on your bill. Learn more about your rights as \u003ca href=\"https://www.pge.com/en/account/billing-and-assistance/understand-your-bill/sub-metered-tenant-and-landlord.html#:~:text=metered%20customer%20obligations-,Sub%2Dmetered%20tenants,are%20a%20sub%2Dmetered%20tenant.\">a sub-metered tenant on PG&E’s website.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>I don’t qualify for CARE. Is there an alternative?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>If you submit a CARE application, you are also automatically screened to see if you qualify for \u003ca href=\"https://www.pge.com/en/account/billing-and-assistance/financial-assistance/family-electric-rate-assistance-program-fera.html\">the Family Electric Rate Assistance (FERA) program\u003c/a>. The two share an application, with the difference being that FERA has slightly higher income requirements. However, you cannot enroll in both CARE and FERA.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>FERA offers an 18% discount on electric rates but not gas. To qualify, you have three or more people in a household and meet income requirements. For a household of three, that is $49,721–$62,150. For a household of four, that is $60,001–$75,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The FERA \u003ca href=\"https://www.pge.com/en/account/billing-and-assistance/financial-assistance/family-electric-rate-assistance-program-fera.html#accordion-1df6cab0ba-item-243ce102c7\">discount also applies for two years\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Are there other PG&E programs I should know about?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>For one-time assistance with your utility bill, check out:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>PG&E’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.pge.com/en/save-energy-and-money/energy-saving-programs/energy-savings-assistance-program.html\">\u003cstrong>Energy Savings Assistance program\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>, in which renters improve appliances or their home with environmental upgrades if their income qualifies them for the program. For one person, the threshold is $36,450 or less. For a household of four, it is $75,000 or less.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>PG&E’s \u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.pge.com/en/account/billing-and-assistance/financial-assistance/relief-for-energy-assistance-through-community-help.html\">Relief for Energy Assistance through Community Help\u003c/a>, \u003c/strong>in which low-income families can receive up to $1,000 on a bill of no more than $2,000.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.csd.ca.gov/Pages/Assistance-PayingMyEnergyBills.aspx\">Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>, which is one-time federally funded assistance for low-income families.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Read: \u003c/strong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11954197/how-to-find-free-or-lower-cost-wi-fi-in-the-bay-area\">\u003cstrong>How to Find Free or Lower-Cost Wi-Fi in the Bay Area\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For long-term assistance with your utility bills, there are:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>PG&E’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.pge.com/en/account/billing-and-assistance/financial-assistance/medical-baseline-program.html#accordion-00d56f906d-item-43afe8c4a2\">\u003cstrong>Medical Baseline Program\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> is for residential customers who use medical equipment that depends on power, such as an apnea monitor and a dialysis machine. It could also help ensure \u003ca href=\"https://www.pge.com/en/outages-and-safety/outage-preparedness-and-support.html\">PG&E does not shut off your power during severe weather threats\u003c/a>. \u003ca href=\"https://m.pge.com/?_gl=1*wtxnl4*_gcl_au*Nzc0NjU1NTUxLjE3MDUwMTYxMzc.#forcelogin\">Apply for the Medical Baseline Program online\u003c/a>. There are also \u003ca href=\"https://www.pge.com/en/account/billing-and-assistance/financial-assistance/vulnerable-customer-status.html\">different ways for vulnerable customers to contact PG&E for assistance in these cases\u003c/a>.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>PG&E’s \u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.pge.com/en/account/billing-and-assistance/financial-assistance/arrearage-management-plan-amp.html\">Arrearage Management Plan\u003c/a> \u003c/strong>is a debt forgiveness plan of up to $8,000 if enrolled in CARE or FERA. \u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.pge.com/en/account/billing-and-assistance/financial-assistance/arrearage-management-plan-amp.html\">Check other requirements for enrolling in this plan\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11972887/pge-rates-are-way-up-do-you-qualify-for-a-discount","authors":["11867"],"categories":["news_8"],"tags":["news_32707","news_21973","news_140","news_33535","news_33534"],"featImg":"news_11972924","label":"news"},"news_11970332":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11970332","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11970332","score":null,"sort":[1702987254000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"rising-utility-costs-compound-californias-housing-crisis","title":"Rising Utility Costs Compound California's Housing Crisis","publishDate":1702987254,"format":"standard","headTitle":"Rising Utility Costs Compound California’s Housing Crisis | KQED","labelTerm":{"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>Michael Yamamura shares an apartment in Fresno with his brother and their ailing mother. This summer, as they ran the air conditioning to keep the scorching heat at bay, their monthly utility bills topped $500, which made it hard to keep up on rent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Sometimes, I don’t pay it until they give me the three-day [eviction] notice,” said the 20-year-old, whose family was homeless a few years ago when he was in junior high. “I’ve been pretty behind and pretty terrified of ending up out on the street again.” [pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Michael Yamamura, Fresno resident\"]‘Sometimes, I don’t pay it until they give me the three-day [eviction] notice. I’ve been pretty behind and pretty terrified of ending up out on the street again.’[/pullquote]Utility costs will swallow an even bigger portion of the family’s budget when PG&E’s latest rate hikes go into effect next month, raising average gas and electricity bills by an estimated $28-$42 per month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The increases come after the state’s three major suppliers, PG&E, Southern California Edison and San Diego Gas & Electric, have \u003ca href=\"https://www.publicadvocates.cpuc.ca.gov/press-room/reports-and-analyses/q3-2023-electric-rates-report\">nearly doubled\u003c/a> electricity rates over the last decade.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wildfire-related expenses, inflation, solar subsidies and the growing energy demands that come with extreme weather are driving the higher costs. As they go up, they’re colliding with California’s housing crisis, pushing families already at the margins to the brink of homelessness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A quarter of California households reported being unable to pay their utility bills in October, according to a \u003ca href=\"https://www.census.gov/data-tools/demo/hhp/#/?measures=ENERGYBILL&s_state=00006&periodSelector=63\">Census survey\u003c/a>, resulting in what Columbia University public health professor Diana Hernández and others call energy insecurity, or the “heat or eat dilemma.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s almost like a game of Russian roulette,” she said, describing the monthly juggle low-income families face. “Today’s unpaid energy bill is tomorrow’s eviction notice. And that cycle is a very real one.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11954906\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11954906\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/230701-FRESNO-UNHOUSED-HEAT-MHN-01-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"A man in a baseball cap pulls a shopping cart up a sidewalk.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/230701-FRESNO-UNHOUSED-HEAT-MHN-01-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/230701-FRESNO-UNHOUSED-HEAT-MHN-01-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/230701-FRESNO-UNHOUSED-HEAT-MHN-01-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/230701-FRESNO-UNHOUSED-HEAT-MHN-01-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/230701-FRESNO-UNHOUSED-HEAT-MHN-01-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/230701-FRESNO-UNHOUSED-HEAT-MHN-01-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A man pushes a cart near downtown Fresno on a 108-degree day. Officials estimate about 1,700 people are currently living on Fresno’s streets. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Yamamura finished high school last year and takes whatever work he can get — typically a few hours a week at a fast food restaurant and odd jobs on Craigslist.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The money he and his 23-year-old brother can patch together isn’t enough to cover all the family’s expenses, even with Section 8 paying the bulk of their rent. [pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Michael Yamamura, Fresno resident\"]‘The AC there doesn’t work the best, and it’s not the most insulated apartment, so it’s harder for us to actually keep the temperature inside.’[/pullquote]More and more, it’s utilities that are straining their budget. The family’s June PG&E bill was $100 more than the previous year. But rising utility rates aren’t the only reason their bill is so high.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The AC there doesn’t work the best, and it’s not the most insulated apartment, so it’s harder for us to actually keep the temperature inside,” Yamamura said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Energy-insecure families like his are more likely to report their homes are drafty or poorly insulated, making them less energy efficient. That’s a key reason they \u003ca href=\"https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=56640&src=%E2%80%B9%20Consumption%20%20%20%20%20%20Residential%20Energy%20Consumption%20Survey%20(RECS)-b3\">spend about 25 cents more per square foot on electricity and gas\u003c/a> than households that can afford energy-saving appliances and upgrades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the winter, Yamamura’s family can keep their bills down. “Worst comes to worst, we’re cold. It’s not that bad,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But his family can’t forgo the AC in the summer. Keeping the house cool is essential because of his mom’s chronic health problems and her many medications, Yamamura said. It was a health crisis that left her unable to work and plunged the family into homelessness a few years ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have so many people who [are] making this impossible choice,” said Dr. Margot Kushel, a UCSF professor who runs the Benioff Homelessness and Housing Initiative. “Do I keep my air conditioning on, run up my energy bills so I can’t pay my rent, and then be evicted and have neither? Or do I sit here in this stifling heat and risk death?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not being able to heat or cool your home can worsen existing physical and mental health problems or cause new ones, she said. “Energy insecurity is a threat to health, and it’s a threat, therefore, to housing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kushel led an expansive\u003ca href=\"https://homelessness.ucsf.edu/our-impact/our-studies/california-statewide-study-people-experiencing-homelessness\"> survey\u003c/a> of unhoused Californians this year that found a complex interplay of factors precipitated homelessness, including medical expenses and lost work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think recognizing energy insecurity as a contributor to this crisis, this is the next frontier that we need to really worry about,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11970355\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11970355\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/FG_Belden_PCT_2023_09_14_FG25873-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Powerlines are seen through thick trees.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1300\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/FG_Belden_PCT_2023_09_14_FG25873-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/FG_Belden_PCT_2023_09_14_FG25873-qut-800x542.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/FG_Belden_PCT_2023_09_14_FG25873-qut-1020x691.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/FG_Belden_PCT_2023_09_14_FG25873-qut-160x108.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/FG_Belden_PCT_2023_09_14_FG25873-qut-1536x1040.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A PG&E tower is framed by burned trees along the Pacific Crest Trail in Belden, California, Sept. 13, 2023. \u003ccite>(Fred Greaves/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A statement from PG&E said higher rates reflect investments in system upgrades needed to make systems safer and more resilient to climate change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“PG&E recognizes our responsibility to serve our customers safely and reliably, and we are aggressively focused on how to deliver work safely at a lower cost. We are working to keep customer costs at or below assumed inflation for the long-term, between an average of 2 and 4% a year.” [pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"A statement from PG&E\"]‘PG&E recognizes our responsibility to serve our customers safely and reliably, and we are aggressively focused on how to deliver work safely at a lower cost.’[/pullquote]The upcoming \u003ca href=\"https://www.cpuc.ca.gov/news-and-updates/all-news/cpuc-prioritizes-safety-reliability-and-affordability-in-pge-rate-case-2023\">rate increase\u003c/a>, approved by the California Public Utilities Commission, will pay for PG&E to bury over 1,200 miles of power lines for wildfire prevention. \u003ca href=\"https://grist.org/wildfires/utilities-lawsuits-wildfire-pg-e-pacificorp/\">Like other utilities across the West\u003c/a>, the company has been sued for starting fires with its equipment, including the Camp Fire, the deadliest and most destructive in state history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The company has paid out billions in settlements (which shareholders ponied up, according to PG&E) and spent billions more on upgrades, costs that get passed along to customers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During the pandemic, the state \u003ca href=\"https://www.cpuc.ca.gov/news-and-updates/newsroom/covid-19/utility-consumer-protections-during-california-covid-19-outbreak#:~:text=Disconnections%3A%20All%20electric%20and%20natural,our%20decision%20for%20more%20information.\">mandated a moratorium\u003c/a> on utility shutoffs, but that has expired. \u003ca href=\"https://docs.cpuc.ca.gov/PublishedDocs/Efile/G000/M520/K913/520913952.PDF\">PG&E’s latest report\u003c/a> to the CPUC shows more than 162,600 customers had their service disconnected between January and October of this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many people who lose access to utilities end up moving in with others, restarting their utilities under someone else’s name, or leaving the state, said Mark Toney, executive director of the consumer advocacy group The Utility Reform Network. “But some of those people absolutely do end up homeless,” he said. [aside label='More Stories on Housing' tag='housing']By this fall, Yamamura’s family was $1,300 in debt to PG&E.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Californians currently owe the state’s biggest utility companies upwards of $2 billion, \u003ca href=\"https://apps.cpuc.ca.gov/apex/f?p=401:57::::::\">according to records\u003c/a> submitted to the CPUC in November. Much of this accrued during the pandemic. About half of indebted customers owe more than $2,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This staggering debt has piled up despite the more than $1.6 billion federal and state government provided\u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2023-01-19/california-utilities-wiping-out-past-due-bills-as-new-charges-rise\"> Californians to pay past-due residential utility bills\u003c/a> as part of pandemic relief efforts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All of the investor-owned utilities run a state-mandated debt forgiveness program. As long as customers stay current on their monthly bills, their debt is gradually forgiven.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yamamura and his mother said they were enrolled but flunked out because they couldn’t keep up with payments. They regularly get disconnection notices, he said, and have had their service cut in the past despite getting a 30% monthly discount for low-income customers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to the debt relief program, a patchwork of federal, state and nonprofit \u003ca href=\"https://www.cpuc.ca.gov/industries-and-topics/electrical-energy/income-qualified-assistance-programs\">programs are available to help customers\u003c/a> manage bills and debt. They range from subsidies to payment plans to help installing insulation and energy-efficient appliances.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some of these programs are well-used, but others are \u003ca href=\"https://liob.cpuc.ca.gov/wp-content/uploads/sites/14/2023/06/PGE-PY2022-Low-Income-Annual-Report.pdf\">underutilized\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even for many customers who take advantage of them, like Yamamura and his family, they’re simply not enough.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About 85,000 PG&E customers were \u003ca href=\"https://docs.cpuc.ca.gov/SearchRes.aspx?DocFormat=ALL&DocID=520913952\">kicked out of the debt forgiveness program\u003c/a> during six months earlier this year for failing to stay current on their payments or maintain other eligibility requirements.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, 362,000 PG&E customers were enrolled as of October.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With rates due to rise again, some are calling for reforms that would ease the burden on low-income consumers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The subsidy programs that we have in place are becoming more and more obsolete every day as the cost of utilities, as well as just the overall cost of living, continues to rise,” said Benito Delgado-Olson, chair of the CPUC’s Low Income Oversight Board. “These rate hikes are going to be very difficult for a lot of hardworking people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This summer, Yamamura picked up another part-time job with a nonprofit, Power California, canvassing for rent control in Fresno. The cause felt personal, and he loved talking to people like Melody Erdmann, a 57-year-old who opened her apartment door to him one Saturday. [pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Michael Yamamura, Fresno resident\"]‘I consistently worry about ending up homeless again. I’d like to pay rent on time and have bills paid and not be hours away from getting an eviction notice …’[/pullquote]Clipboard in hand, Yamamura launched into his pitch, but Erdmann cut him off.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was homeless, so yeah, I know,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Oh, yeah, me too,” Yamamura said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I barely make my rent,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Standing in her doorway, Erdmann told Yamamura her subsidized rent and PG&E bill consume half of her Social Security income. And it was an unpaid utility bill that almost prevented her from getting housed when she was homeless.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They turned us away because of a PG&E bill,” she said. “I had a bill in collections.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She eventually got help taking care of the debt and was able to move into the apartment where she lives now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But stability feels tenuous for her and Yamamura.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I consistently worry about ending up homeless again,” he said. “I’d like to pay rent on time and have bills paid and not be hours away from getting an eviction notice, but that’s where I’ve been the past few years.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He doesn’t see that changing anytime soon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"PG&E is set to raise gas and electricity rates by $28–$42 per month due to wildfire costs, inflation and energy demand. This only worsens the housing crisis for vulnerable California families.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1703098290,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":44,"wordCount":1858},"headData":{"title":"Rising Utility Costs Compound California's Housing Crisis | KQED","description":"PG&E is set to raise gas and electricity rates by $28–$42 per month due to wildfire costs, inflation and energy demand. This only worsens the housing crisis for vulnerable California families.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"Rising Utility Costs Compound California's Housing Crisis","datePublished":"2023-12-19T12:00:54.000Z","dateModified":"2023-12-20T18:51:30.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"Y","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"sticky":false,"excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","articleAge":"0","path":"/news/11970332/rising-utility-costs-compound-californias-housing-crisis","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Michael Yamamura shares an apartment in Fresno with his brother and their ailing mother. This summer, as they ran the air conditioning to keep the scorching heat at bay, their monthly utility bills topped $500, which made it hard to keep up on rent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Sometimes, I don’t pay it until they give me the three-day [eviction] notice,” said the 20-year-old, whose family was homeless a few years ago when he was in junior high. “I’ve been pretty behind and pretty terrified of ending up out on the street again.” \u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"‘Sometimes, I don’t pay it until they give me the three-day [eviction] notice. I’ve been pretty behind and pretty terrified of ending up out on the street again.’","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"right","citation":"Michael Yamamura, Fresno resident","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Utility costs will swallow an even bigger portion of the family’s budget when PG&E’s latest rate hikes go into effect next month, raising average gas and electricity bills by an estimated $28-$42 per month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The increases come after the state’s three major suppliers, PG&E, Southern California Edison and San Diego Gas & Electric, have \u003ca href=\"https://www.publicadvocates.cpuc.ca.gov/press-room/reports-and-analyses/q3-2023-electric-rates-report\">nearly doubled\u003c/a> electricity rates over the last decade.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wildfire-related expenses, inflation, solar subsidies and the growing energy demands that come with extreme weather are driving the higher costs. As they go up, they’re colliding with California’s housing crisis, pushing families already at the margins to the brink of homelessness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A quarter of California households reported being unable to pay their utility bills in October, according to a \u003ca href=\"https://www.census.gov/data-tools/demo/hhp/#/?measures=ENERGYBILL&s_state=00006&periodSelector=63\">Census survey\u003c/a>, resulting in what Columbia University public health professor Diana Hernández and others call energy insecurity, or the “heat or eat dilemma.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s almost like a game of Russian roulette,” she said, describing the monthly juggle low-income families face. “Today’s unpaid energy bill is tomorrow’s eviction notice. And that cycle is a very real one.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11954906\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11954906\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/230701-FRESNO-UNHOUSED-HEAT-MHN-01-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"A man in a baseball cap pulls a shopping cart up a sidewalk.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/230701-FRESNO-UNHOUSED-HEAT-MHN-01-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/230701-FRESNO-UNHOUSED-HEAT-MHN-01-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/230701-FRESNO-UNHOUSED-HEAT-MHN-01-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/230701-FRESNO-UNHOUSED-HEAT-MHN-01-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/230701-FRESNO-UNHOUSED-HEAT-MHN-01-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/230701-FRESNO-UNHOUSED-HEAT-MHN-01-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A man pushes a cart near downtown Fresno on a 108-degree day. Officials estimate about 1,700 people are currently living on Fresno’s streets. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Yamamura finished high school last year and takes whatever work he can get — typically a few hours a week at a fast food restaurant and odd jobs on Craigslist.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The money he and his 23-year-old brother can patch together isn’t enough to cover all the family’s expenses, even with Section 8 paying the bulk of their rent. \u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"‘The AC there doesn’t work the best, and it’s not the most insulated apartment, so it’s harder for us to actually keep the temperature inside.’","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"right","citation":"Michael Yamamura, Fresno resident","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>More and more, it’s utilities that are straining their budget. The family’s June PG&E bill was $100 more than the previous year. But rising utility rates aren’t the only reason their bill is so high.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The AC there doesn’t work the best, and it’s not the most insulated apartment, so it’s harder for us to actually keep the temperature inside,” Yamamura said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Energy-insecure families like his are more likely to report their homes are drafty or poorly insulated, making them less energy efficient. That’s a key reason they \u003ca href=\"https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=56640&src=%E2%80%B9%20Consumption%20%20%20%20%20%20Residential%20Energy%20Consumption%20Survey%20(RECS)-b3\">spend about 25 cents more per square foot on electricity and gas\u003c/a> than households that can afford energy-saving appliances and upgrades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the winter, Yamamura’s family can keep their bills down. “Worst comes to worst, we’re cold. It’s not that bad,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But his family can’t forgo the AC in the summer. Keeping the house cool is essential because of his mom’s chronic health problems and her many medications, Yamamura said. It was a health crisis that left her unable to work and plunged the family into homelessness a few years ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have so many people who [are] making this impossible choice,” said Dr. Margot Kushel, a UCSF professor who runs the Benioff Homelessness and Housing Initiative. “Do I keep my air conditioning on, run up my energy bills so I can’t pay my rent, and then be evicted and have neither? Or do I sit here in this stifling heat and risk death?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not being able to heat or cool your home can worsen existing physical and mental health problems or cause new ones, she said. “Energy insecurity is a threat to health, and it’s a threat, therefore, to housing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kushel led an expansive\u003ca href=\"https://homelessness.ucsf.edu/our-impact/our-studies/california-statewide-study-people-experiencing-homelessness\"> survey\u003c/a> of unhoused Californians this year that found a complex interplay of factors precipitated homelessness, including medical expenses and lost work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think recognizing energy insecurity as a contributor to this crisis, this is the next frontier that we need to really worry about,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11970355\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11970355\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/FG_Belden_PCT_2023_09_14_FG25873-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Powerlines are seen through thick trees.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1300\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/FG_Belden_PCT_2023_09_14_FG25873-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/FG_Belden_PCT_2023_09_14_FG25873-qut-800x542.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/FG_Belden_PCT_2023_09_14_FG25873-qut-1020x691.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/FG_Belden_PCT_2023_09_14_FG25873-qut-160x108.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/FG_Belden_PCT_2023_09_14_FG25873-qut-1536x1040.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A PG&E tower is framed by burned trees along the Pacific Crest Trail in Belden, California, Sept. 13, 2023. \u003ccite>(Fred Greaves/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A statement from PG&E said higher rates reflect investments in system upgrades needed to make systems safer and more resilient to climate change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“PG&E recognizes our responsibility to serve our customers safely and reliably, and we are aggressively focused on how to deliver work safely at a lower cost. We are working to keep customer costs at or below assumed inflation for the long-term, between an average of 2 and 4% a year.” \u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"‘PG&E recognizes our responsibility to serve our customers safely and reliably, and we are aggressively focused on how to deliver work safely at a lower cost.’","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"right","citation":"A statement from PG&E","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>The upcoming \u003ca href=\"https://www.cpuc.ca.gov/news-and-updates/all-news/cpuc-prioritizes-safety-reliability-and-affordability-in-pge-rate-case-2023\">rate increase\u003c/a>, approved by the California Public Utilities Commission, will pay for PG&E to bury over 1,200 miles of power lines for wildfire prevention. \u003ca href=\"https://grist.org/wildfires/utilities-lawsuits-wildfire-pg-e-pacificorp/\">Like other utilities across the West\u003c/a>, the company has been sued for starting fires with its equipment, including the Camp Fire, the deadliest and most destructive in state history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The company has paid out billions in settlements (which shareholders ponied up, according to PG&E) and spent billions more on upgrades, costs that get passed along to customers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During the pandemic, the state \u003ca href=\"https://www.cpuc.ca.gov/news-and-updates/newsroom/covid-19/utility-consumer-protections-during-california-covid-19-outbreak#:~:text=Disconnections%3A%20All%20electric%20and%20natural,our%20decision%20for%20more%20information.\">mandated a moratorium\u003c/a> on utility shutoffs, but that has expired. \u003ca href=\"https://docs.cpuc.ca.gov/PublishedDocs/Efile/G000/M520/K913/520913952.PDF\">PG&E’s latest report\u003c/a> to the CPUC shows more than 162,600 customers had their service disconnected between January and October of this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many people who lose access to utilities end up moving in with others, restarting their utilities under someone else’s name, or leaving the state, said Mark Toney, executive director of the consumer advocacy group The Utility Reform Network. “But some of those people absolutely do end up homeless,” he said. \u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"label":"More Stories on Housing ","tag":"housing"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>By this fall, Yamamura’s family was $1,300 in debt to PG&E.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Californians currently owe the state’s biggest utility companies upwards of $2 billion, \u003ca href=\"https://apps.cpuc.ca.gov/apex/f?p=401:57::::::\">according to records\u003c/a> submitted to the CPUC in November. Much of this accrued during the pandemic. About half of indebted customers owe more than $2,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This staggering debt has piled up despite the more than $1.6 billion federal and state government provided\u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2023-01-19/california-utilities-wiping-out-past-due-bills-as-new-charges-rise\"> Californians to pay past-due residential utility bills\u003c/a> as part of pandemic relief efforts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All of the investor-owned utilities run a state-mandated debt forgiveness program. As long as customers stay current on their monthly bills, their debt is gradually forgiven.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yamamura and his mother said they were enrolled but flunked out because they couldn’t keep up with payments. They regularly get disconnection notices, he said, and have had their service cut in the past despite getting a 30% monthly discount for low-income customers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to the debt relief program, a patchwork of federal, state and nonprofit \u003ca href=\"https://www.cpuc.ca.gov/industries-and-topics/electrical-energy/income-qualified-assistance-programs\">programs are available to help customers\u003c/a> manage bills and debt. They range from subsidies to payment plans to help installing insulation and energy-efficient appliances.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some of these programs are well-used, but others are \u003ca href=\"https://liob.cpuc.ca.gov/wp-content/uploads/sites/14/2023/06/PGE-PY2022-Low-Income-Annual-Report.pdf\">underutilized\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even for many customers who take advantage of them, like Yamamura and his family, they’re simply not enough.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About 85,000 PG&E customers were \u003ca href=\"https://docs.cpuc.ca.gov/SearchRes.aspx?DocFormat=ALL&DocID=520913952\">kicked out of the debt forgiveness program\u003c/a> during six months earlier this year for failing to stay current on their payments or maintain other eligibility requirements.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, 362,000 PG&E customers were enrolled as of October.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With rates due to rise again, some are calling for reforms that would ease the burden on low-income consumers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The subsidy programs that we have in place are becoming more and more obsolete every day as the cost of utilities, as well as just the overall cost of living, continues to rise,” said Benito Delgado-Olson, chair of the CPUC’s Low Income Oversight Board. “These rate hikes are going to be very difficult for a lot of hardworking people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This summer, Yamamura picked up another part-time job with a nonprofit, Power California, canvassing for rent control in Fresno. The cause felt personal, and he loved talking to people like Melody Erdmann, a 57-year-old who opened her apartment door to him one Saturday. \u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"‘I consistently worry about ending up homeless again. I’d like to pay rent on time and have bills paid and not be hours away from getting an eviction notice …’","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"right","citation":"Michael Yamamura, Fresno resident","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Clipboard in hand, Yamamura launched into his pitch, but Erdmann cut him off.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was homeless, so yeah, I know,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Oh, yeah, me too,” Yamamura said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I barely make my rent,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Standing in her doorway, Erdmann told Yamamura her subsidized rent and PG&E bill consume half of her Social Security income. And it was an unpaid utility bill that almost prevented her from getting housed when she was homeless.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They turned us away because of a PG&E bill,” she said. “I had a bill in collections.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She eventually got help taking care of the debt and was able to move into the apartment where she lives now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But stability feels tenuous for her and Yamamura.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I consistently worry about ending up homeless again,” he said. “I’d like to pay rent on time and have bills paid and not be hours away from getting an eviction notice, but that’s where I’ve been the past few years.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He doesn’t see that changing anytime soon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11970332/rising-utility-costs-compound-californias-housing-crisis","authors":["11276"],"categories":["news_8"],"tags":["news_21973","news_27626","news_37","news_1775","news_140"],"featImg":"news_11954908","label":"news"},"news_11968317":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11968317","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11968317","score":null,"sort":[1701172809000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"lithium-could-revolutionize-imperial-valley-locals-want-in","title":"Lithium Could Revolutionize Imperial Valley, Locals Want in","publishDate":1701172809,"format":"standard","headTitle":"Lithium Could Revolutionize Imperial Valley, Locals Want in | KQED","labelTerm":{},"content":"\u003cp>Before Raul Flores held “white gold” in his fingertips, he’d tried his hand at other Imperial Valley jobs. He worked as a correction officer in the state prison, he grew medjool dates on ten acres of land, and he eventually landed a job at the geothermal plants around the Salton Sea.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then he got wind that under his feet lay enough lithium to supply roughly a third of the world’s demand, and he knew that was a game changer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Lithium equals future,” said Flores, holding a gleaming chunk of lithium chloride between his fingertips so his classmates could get a better look.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The crystal in his hands made concrete something that has eluded him and the other students, all part of Imperial Valley College’s inaugural class of aspiring lithium industry workers:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The promise of a better future.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 49ers football jersey Flores wore harkened back to another era when people pinned their hopes and dreams on minerals in the earth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Could this be the next gold rush?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A key metal in batteries that power electric cars and computers, lithium has spiked in value over the last decade as global demand for the “white gold” has skyrocketed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The massive, untapped repository in Imperial Valley — worth $500 billion by some estimates — could help make the United States a new — and key — player in the industry worldwide. That’s because almost all of the world’s supply is mined and refined abroad.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chile sits on the majority of the world’s untapped reserves, mines in Australia provide more than half of the world’s supply, and China produces over half of the world’s batteries. The U.S. is barely on the chart.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the Imperial Valley, companies running geothermal power plants on the Salton Sea have known for years that the brine they’ve been pumping from reservoirs deep in the ground contains lithium, but the technology to extract it and the demand haven’t existed until recently. Today, both exist. Almost.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>EnergySource Minerals has greenlit its commercial lithium project ATLiS, aiming to start production by 2026, and Controlled Thermal Resources and CalEnergy, a subsidiary of Warren Buffett’s BHE Renewables, are racing to the starting line as well, each developing its own method for cost-effective extraction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Lennor M. Johnson, president, Imperial Valley College\"]‘Lithium is one component. Expansion is going to be very necessary and crucial, which is going to just really put Imperial County on the map.’[/pullquote]With investment trickling in, momentum is building, but it’s still unclear when the promised results will materialize. Nevertheless, stakeholders in the Imperial Valley are getting ready to reap the benefits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Efrain Silva, the Imperial Valley College’s dean of economic and workforce development, launched the certificate program to train students for jobs in the lithium industry on a bit of a wager. Will the industry kick-in by the time the first class graduates next spring? Having the key companies on speed dial and collaborating with them on the curriculum, Silva says he would not have started the program if the projection for jobs wasn’t there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11968366\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/imperial_miners-1-11.jpg\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11968366\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/imperial_miners-1-11.jpg\" alt=\"A man puts his hands around pumps surrounded by people/\" width=\"1800\" height=\"1200\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/imperial_miners-1-11.jpg 1800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/imperial_miners-1-11-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/imperial_miners-1-11-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/imperial_miners-1-11-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/imperial_miners-1-11-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1800px) 100vw, 1800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rafael Serrano works with students to calibrate a model pump on Oct. 5, 2023. Students learn the math and how to apply it to real world situations. \u003ccite>(Philip Salata/inewsource)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Another more recent player has also amped up hopes: Statevolt, a battery producer, has announced plans to build out a battery factory in the valley to be operational by 2025. The company says it will be one of the largest in the U.S.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Battery manufacturing would be a logical and beneficial industry to grow alongside lithium extraction in the valley, said Imperial County Supervisor Ryan E. Kelley. It would bring more jobs for locals to the region while also reducing the distance in the supply chain. Currently, the production line from mineral extraction to battery making often crosses several national boundaries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Why can’t it be refined and turned into cathodes and anodes and batteries right here?” Kelley said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Projections and international attention aside, not all community members of Imperial Valley see dollar signs and solutions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It wouldn’t be the first time the valley has hosted an alternative energy venture that dashed hopes for transformative impacts. Solar and wind have come into the valley and neither has delivered an abundance of sustained jobs, let alone addressed the larger inequities locals experience.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Consider: Imperial County has the highest unemployment rate in California at almost 15%. The median household income is $49,000 — less than the state average by $35,000 — and more than a quarter of children live in poverty. The county also is an outlier when it comes to a number of health indicators, including high rates of diabetes, liver disease and drug-induced deaths. Doctors are also studying causes for high rates of pediatric asthma symptoms, especially for residents living closer to the Salton Sea.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Community leaders have pointed out that industry in the valley has a history of being largely extractive, producing large profit with little feeding back to the communities bearing the impact.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Why would it be different this time? The believe-it-when-we-see-it sentiment runs consistently through the towns of Imperial.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reverend John Freeman, of the African Methodist Episcopal Chapel in El Centro, says he hopes that any company that is going to be exporting resources gives back to the community, especially to local youth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If they don’t have any opportunities, they’re gonna run from this place,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Much at stake in lithium’s development\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>But this time local stakeholders say all the right ingredients are in place, and that’s given them a sense of agency.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I would say that we were just happy to be asked to go to the dance,” Supervisor Kelley said. “And now, we are actually being more selective about who we’re going to dance with.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That has meant knowing what’s at stake.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Based on current costs and estimates, Imperial County holds more than $500 billion in lithium, and demand is projected to grow fivefold by 2030.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year Gov. Gavin Newsom declared that all new car sales in California will be zero-emission vehicles by 2035. With the potential of supplying a substantial portion of estimated global lithium needs, Imperial Valley could be sitting in a transformative position — so much so that some now refer to it as Lithium Valley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom went so far as to call it the “Saudi Arabia of lithium.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Major oil industry investors have since begun to funnel money to Imperial lithium ventures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As companies race to develop cost-effective and safe technology to turn brine into “white gold,” they do so amid questions of whether they — like many other ventures around the world — will do so at the expense of the local communities. Or will they mitigate environmental impacts and give back in jobs, potentially shaping a new narrative?\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11968370\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/imperial_miners-1-28.jpg\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11968370\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/imperial_miners-1-28.jpg\" alt=\"An opened notebook showing an illustration and writing.\" width=\"1800\" height=\"1200\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/imperial_miners-1-28.jpg 1800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/imperial_miners-1-28-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/imperial_miners-1-28-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/imperial_miners-1-28-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/imperial_miners-1-28-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1800px) 100vw, 1800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rose Fernandez takes meticulous notes to remember all the proper names of the parts of a pump on Oct. 5, 2023. Fernandez already works in the industry, but now she is getting the theory behind the practice. \u003ccite>(Philip Salata/inewsource)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11968371\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/imperial_miners-1.jpg\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11968371\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/imperial_miners-1.jpg\" alt='A sign that reads \"Vulcan Plant\" with a factory and steam rising in the background.' width=\"1800\" height=\"1200\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/imperial_miners-1.jpg 1800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/imperial_miners-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/imperial_miners-1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/imperial_miners-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/imperial_miners-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1800px) 100vw, 1800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Steam rises over the CalEnergy geothermal plants run by Warren Buffet’s Berkshire Hathaway Oct. 5, 2023. Lithium is to be derived from the hot geothermal brine that runs through the pumps to produce energy. \u003ccite>(Philip Salata/inewsource)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Open pit mining and harvesting lithium from evaporation pools use hazardous chemicals such as hydrochloric acid as well as an exorbitant amount of water and have been known to deplete and contaminate groundwater, disrupt sensitive ecosystems, and in turn, harm local populations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Imperial Valley, some community members see lithium mining as potentially exacerbating the community’s health problems, which endure while residents continue to grapple with\u003ca href=\"https://pacinst.org/salton-sea/#:~:text=The%20Sea%20faces%20a%20host,efforts%20to%20address%20that%20change.\"> environmental hazards stemming from the Salton Sea\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trying to build local support, the lithium companies have held numerous public meetings where they discuss benefits they plan to give back to the community. They’re also explaining their “direct lithium extraction” methods, currently in development, and pitching them as safer to the environment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The DLE process makes use of existing geothermal plants, which pump very hot brine to the surface to generate electricity and then pump the remaining brine back into the earth. DLE adds the step of mixing the brine with chemicals to extract the lithium, reducing the waste to something called filter cake.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Companies allege DLE is much less harmful to the environment, and it is, according to some preliminary studies. But with how new the technology is, long-term impacts are yet to be known.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Lithium dreams for locals\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>As Imperial Valley communities prepare for the lithium future there, the promise of jobs remains a shifting target, and fault lines and new alliances have emerged among local stakeholders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Imperial Valley College President Lennor M. Johnson says the lithium industry’s development could trigger transformative growth not just in the industries that use lithium in manufacturing but also in the expansion of jobs and services necessary to accommodate that growth. He sees housing, hotels, schools, entertainment centers and malls as part of that growth — all amenities that could make the Imperial Valley a place where younger people see a future for themselves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I can truly envision that Imperial County is going to look something like Temecula in the next five, ten years,” Johnson said, referring to the rural community north of San Diego that went through a similar transformation over the last several years. For Temecula, it was the promise of affordable housing that expedited growth. For Imperial County, housing would be just one part of the equation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Lithium is one component,” Johnson said. “Expansion is going to be very necessary and crucial, which is going to just really put Imperial County on the map.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stakeholders, investors and community members have been discussing the viability of the industry in Imperial Valley for several years. Planning entities, such as the Lithium Valley Commission, were set up to facilitate conversation among the numerous interested and skeptical parties. The process has not been smooth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For one, representation has been an issue. Both the\u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/24101288-tn247499_20221116t155706_quechan-indian-tribe-comments-on-lithium-valley-commission-draft-report-1\"> Quechan Indian Tribe\u003c/a> and the\u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/24119095-tn247100_20221028t144827_torres-martinez-desert-cahuilla-indians-comments-follow-up-on-january-21s\"> Torres Martinez Desert Cahuilla Indians\u003c/a> raised numerous issues, including concerns over ancestral lands and being invited to the table later than others. And when community members and representatives suggested that lithium should be taxed and the funds be distributed to frontline communities, tensions flared between pro-tax and pro-industry interest groups.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Approved last year,\u003ca href=\"https://www.cdtfa.ca.gov/taxes-and-fees/lithium-extraction-excise-tax.htm\"> the tax\u003c/a> calls for producers to pay monthly in the hundreds of dollars per metric ton of extracted lithium, depending on the size of the operation. The money is slated for Salton Sea restoration projects, community projects at or around the sea and the counties impacted by lithium extraction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>How much communities will see is anyone’s guess — the money won’t be collected until commercial production begins. In one estimate, EnergySource Minerals CEO Eric Spomer said that over the next 30 years, the company alone anticipates delivering $720 million in taxes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eric Reyes and Isabel Solis of Los Amigos de la Comunidad are among the advocates insisting that communities impacted get their fair share.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“From the beginning, the community has been very wary,” Reyes said. “People have come in to use our resources and made billions of dollars through the years, and our community stays generally poor.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Investment in education locally has fueled hopes that the lithium industry will greatly benefit the community. The state gave $80 million alone to build a STEM building on San Diego State University’s Imperial Valley campus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Imperial Valley College acted even faster, forging relationships with the lithium companies to create their certificate program. Silva aims to grow the program into IVC’s first-ever bachelor’s degree, a particularly meaningful goal in a region with limited access to higher education. He also has additional lithium programs on his roadmap as demand grows.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11968369\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/imperial_miners-1-27.jpg\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11968369\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/imperial_miners-1-27.jpg\" alt=\"A woman wearing a dark blue shirt stands inside a room with a cross and plant in the background.\" width=\"800\" height=\"1200\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/imperial_miners-1-27.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/imperial_miners-1-27-160x240.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rose Fernandez poses at her home in El Centro on Oct. 15, 2023. Though she is a single mother with four kids and a full-time job, she went back to school with hopes of earning a better salary. \u003ccite>(Philip Salata/inewsource)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The IVC program convinced students like Rose Fernandez to return to school despite it adding to her already full plate as a single mom of four children, working full time at EnergySource Minerals for minimum wage. She says she’s thankful for the job that she found through a temp agency, especially for the benefits, but it’s still hard to make ends meet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When EnergySource Minerals launches its commercial lithium operation, called ATLiS, Fernandez wants to be ready for opportunities that need her advanced skills and pay more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’re going to be able to say, hey, I got my certificate,” Fernandez said. “I got education, and that’s what employers look for — education.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Silva says he’s heard lithium could create up to 2,500 jobs in Imperial Valley but thinks it may be less. Companies have their own estimates, which vary. ATLiS aims to have 71 new jobs at its lithium venture set to produce commercial lithium in 2026.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Spomer, the EnergySource Minerals CEO, told inewsource that they “‘anticipate a vast majority of the direct jobs created by ESM to be filled locally,” and that they expect to hire plant operators during construction.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Our class, Our Lithium\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The plant operator’s class feels like the deck of a ship crewed by an eclectic and storied bunch, full of jokes and candor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That may be in part due to the professor. It’s Rafael Serrano’s first time teaching, but he has worked with pumps and engines since he joined the Navy at 19. Afterward, he worked for the Imperial Irrigation District as well as energy companies in the valley — when it comes to the trade, he doesn’t lack experience.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11968452\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 924px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/Screenshot-2023-11-28-at-10.17.49-AM.png\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11968452\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/Screenshot-2023-11-28-at-10.17.49-AM.png\" alt=\"A man wearing goggles and a blue shirt holds up a bottle of liquid in one hand with the other bottle held to his chest.\" width=\"924\" height=\"1384\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/Screenshot-2023-11-28-at-10.17.49-AM.png 924w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/Screenshot-2023-11-28-at-10.17.49-AM-800x1198.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/Screenshot-2023-11-28-at-10.17.49-AM-160x240.png 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 924px) 100vw, 924px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rafael Serrano holds the brine (left) from which lithium (right) is extracted on Oct. 5, 2023. \u003ccite>(Philip Salata/inewsource)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>As for teaching, he said his wife told him “It’s one of those things where there is no manual.” So Serrano gives ample room for the students to show up with all their character.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The class is learning how to safely and smoothly run a pump system. They learn on a miniature version of pump systems at the geothermal plants lining the Salton Sea. When the pump is on and it sounds like it’s off, that’s one sign the students calibrated it right — no vibrations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Serrano teaches two cohorts, a total of 59 students, including five women.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fernandez is among the five and says there are opportunities for women in the field, but “they have to think that it’s not just for men.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the students, jobs in the lithium industry promise a new way of making ends meet and perhaps something that could significantly change their way of life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A pest control specialist now studying lithium extraction, Dylan Charles has been leafing through books about lithium for years. He was taken aback when he started “hearing rumblings” about the valley having potential to drive U.S. domestic lithium production.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s a huge development,” Charles said. “I don’t think a lot of people realize just how big that is.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wallace Phillips sees the industry as something that could hold families together. The retired El Centro traffic signal operator says his own children left the valley for lack of economic opportunity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Phillips is hopeful for the future but also holds on to his skepticism. When he saw two congressmen at a community meeting in nearby Calipatria, a community on the front line of the geothermal plants, he thought “‘it’s a little late.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He went down the list of problems they should solve if they really mean to help, from access to healthcare to the toxic Salton Sea. Those problems didn’t emerge recently, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, he turned bright the moment he looked back toward the model pump and recalled the feeling of when he and his classmates calibrated it to a silent hum.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s great when you feel like you’re part of something.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11968368\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/imperial_miners-1-20.jpg\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11968368\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/imperial_miners-1-20.jpg\" alt=\"A man wearing a sleeveless shirt sits in a pew at a church.\" width=\"1800\" height=\"1200\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/imperial_miners-1-20.jpg 1800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/imperial_miners-1-20-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/imperial_miners-1-20-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/imperial_miners-1-20-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/imperial_miners-1-20-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1800px) 100vw, 1800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Wallace Phillips looks back at his congregation after sharing some of his experience returning to school at the age of 64 at the Johnson Chapel Methodist Episcopal Church on Oct. 15, 2023. \u003ccite>(Philip Salata/inewsource)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Vast lithium stores deep under the Salton Sea in Southern California are worth $500 billion. Companies racing to tap into them promise jobs as locals hope for the region’s transformation.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1701195658,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":70,"wordCount":2861},"headData":{"title":"Lithium Could Revolutionize Imperial Valley, Locals Want in | KQED","description":"Vast lithium stores deep under the Salton Sea in Southern California are worth $500 billion. Companies racing to tap into them promise jobs as locals hope for the region’s transformation.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","canonicalUrl":"https://inewsource.org/2023/11/06/lithium-california-white-gold-electric-salton-sea-imperial-valley/","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"Lithium Could Revolutionize Imperial Valley, Locals Want in","datePublished":"2023-11-28T12:00:09.000Z","dateModified":"2023-11-28T18:20:58.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"Y","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"source":"INewSource","sourceUrl":"https://inewsource.org","audioUrl":"https://traffic.omny.fm/d/clips/0af137ef-751e-4b19-a055-aaef00d2d578/ffca7e9f-6831-41c5-bcaf-aaef00f5a073/83efc5f6-6a86-425a-9842-b0c801199522/audio.mp3","nprByline":"\u003ca href=\"https://inewsource.org/author/philipsalata/\">Philip Salata\u003c/a>","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","showOnAuthorArchivePages":"No","articleAge":"0","path":"https://inewsource.org/2023/11/06/lithium-california-white-gold-electric-salton-sea-imperial-valley/","redirect":{"type":"external","url":"https://inewsource.org/2023/11/06/lithium-california-white-gold-electric-salton-sea-imperial-valley/"},"audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Before Raul Flores held “white gold” in his fingertips, he’d tried his hand at other Imperial Valley jobs. He worked as a correction officer in the state prison, he grew medjool dates on ten acres of land, and he eventually landed a job at the geothermal plants around the Salton Sea.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then he got wind that under his feet lay enough lithium to supply roughly a third of the world’s demand, and he knew that was a game changer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Lithium equals future,” said Flores, holding a gleaming chunk of lithium chloride between his fingertips so his classmates could get a better look.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The crystal in his hands made concrete something that has eluded him and the other students, all part of Imperial Valley College’s inaugural class of aspiring lithium industry workers:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The promise of a better future.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 49ers football jersey Flores wore harkened back to another era when people pinned their hopes and dreams on minerals in the earth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Could this be the next gold rush?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A key metal in batteries that power electric cars and computers, lithium has spiked in value over the last decade as global demand for the “white gold” has skyrocketed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The massive, untapped repository in Imperial Valley — worth $500 billion by some estimates — could help make the United States a new — and key — player in the industry worldwide. That’s because almost all of the world’s supply is mined and refined abroad.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chile sits on the majority of the world’s untapped reserves, mines in Australia provide more than half of the world’s supply, and China produces over half of the world’s batteries. The U.S. is barely on the chart.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the Imperial Valley, companies running geothermal power plants on the Salton Sea have known for years that the brine they’ve been pumping from reservoirs deep in the ground contains lithium, but the technology to extract it and the demand haven’t existed until recently. Today, both exist. Almost.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>EnergySource Minerals has greenlit its commercial lithium project ATLiS, aiming to start production by 2026, and Controlled Thermal Resources and CalEnergy, a subsidiary of Warren Buffett’s BHE Renewables, are racing to the starting line as well, each developing its own method for cost-effective extraction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"‘Lithium is one component. Expansion is going to be very necessary and crucial, which is going to just really put Imperial County on the map.’","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"right","citation":"Lennor M. Johnson, president, Imperial Valley College","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>With investment trickling in, momentum is building, but it’s still unclear when the promised results will materialize. Nevertheless, stakeholders in the Imperial Valley are getting ready to reap the benefits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Efrain Silva, the Imperial Valley College’s dean of economic and workforce development, launched the certificate program to train students for jobs in the lithium industry on a bit of a wager. Will the industry kick-in by the time the first class graduates next spring? Having the key companies on speed dial and collaborating with them on the curriculum, Silva says he would not have started the program if the projection for jobs wasn’t there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11968366\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/imperial_miners-1-11.jpg\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11968366\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/imperial_miners-1-11.jpg\" alt=\"A man puts his hands around pumps surrounded by people/\" width=\"1800\" height=\"1200\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/imperial_miners-1-11.jpg 1800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/imperial_miners-1-11-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/imperial_miners-1-11-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/imperial_miners-1-11-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/imperial_miners-1-11-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1800px) 100vw, 1800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rafael Serrano works with students to calibrate a model pump on Oct. 5, 2023. Students learn the math and how to apply it to real world situations. \u003ccite>(Philip Salata/inewsource)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Another more recent player has also amped up hopes: Statevolt, a battery producer, has announced plans to build out a battery factory in the valley to be operational by 2025. The company says it will be one of the largest in the U.S.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Battery manufacturing would be a logical and beneficial industry to grow alongside lithium extraction in the valley, said Imperial County Supervisor Ryan E. Kelley. It would bring more jobs for locals to the region while also reducing the distance in the supply chain. Currently, the production line from mineral extraction to battery making often crosses several national boundaries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Why can’t it be refined and turned into cathodes and anodes and batteries right here?” Kelley said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Projections and international attention aside, not all community members of Imperial Valley see dollar signs and solutions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It wouldn’t be the first time the valley has hosted an alternative energy venture that dashed hopes for transformative impacts. Solar and wind have come into the valley and neither has delivered an abundance of sustained jobs, let alone addressed the larger inequities locals experience.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Consider: Imperial County has the highest unemployment rate in California at almost 15%. The median household income is $49,000 — less than the state average by $35,000 — and more than a quarter of children live in poverty. The county also is an outlier when it comes to a number of health indicators, including high rates of diabetes, liver disease and drug-induced deaths. Doctors are also studying causes for high rates of pediatric asthma symptoms, especially for residents living closer to the Salton Sea.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Community leaders have pointed out that industry in the valley has a history of being largely extractive, producing large profit with little feeding back to the communities bearing the impact.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Why would it be different this time? The believe-it-when-we-see-it sentiment runs consistently through the towns of Imperial.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reverend John Freeman, of the African Methodist Episcopal Chapel in El Centro, says he hopes that any company that is going to be exporting resources gives back to the community, especially to local youth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If they don’t have any opportunities, they’re gonna run from this place,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Much at stake in lithium’s development\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>But this time local stakeholders say all the right ingredients are in place, and that’s given them a sense of agency.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I would say that we were just happy to be asked to go to the dance,” Supervisor Kelley said. “And now, we are actually being more selective about who we’re going to dance with.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That has meant knowing what’s at stake.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Based on current costs and estimates, Imperial County holds more than $500 billion in lithium, and demand is projected to grow fivefold by 2030.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year Gov. Gavin Newsom declared that all new car sales in California will be zero-emission vehicles by 2035. With the potential of supplying a substantial portion of estimated global lithium needs, Imperial Valley could be sitting in a transformative position — so much so that some now refer to it as Lithium Valley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom went so far as to call it the “Saudi Arabia of lithium.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Major oil industry investors have since begun to funnel money to Imperial lithium ventures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As companies race to develop cost-effective and safe technology to turn brine into “white gold,” they do so amid questions of whether they — like many other ventures around the world — will do so at the expense of the local communities. Or will they mitigate environmental impacts and give back in jobs, potentially shaping a new narrative?\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11968370\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/imperial_miners-1-28.jpg\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11968370\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/imperial_miners-1-28.jpg\" alt=\"An opened notebook showing an illustration and writing.\" width=\"1800\" height=\"1200\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/imperial_miners-1-28.jpg 1800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/imperial_miners-1-28-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/imperial_miners-1-28-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/imperial_miners-1-28-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/imperial_miners-1-28-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1800px) 100vw, 1800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rose Fernandez takes meticulous notes to remember all the proper names of the parts of a pump on Oct. 5, 2023. Fernandez already works in the industry, but now she is getting the theory behind the practice. \u003ccite>(Philip Salata/inewsource)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11968371\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/imperial_miners-1.jpg\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11968371\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/imperial_miners-1.jpg\" alt='A sign that reads \"Vulcan Plant\" with a factory and steam rising in the background.' width=\"1800\" height=\"1200\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/imperial_miners-1.jpg 1800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/imperial_miners-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/imperial_miners-1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/imperial_miners-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/imperial_miners-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1800px) 100vw, 1800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Steam rises over the CalEnergy geothermal plants run by Warren Buffet’s Berkshire Hathaway Oct. 5, 2023. Lithium is to be derived from the hot geothermal brine that runs through the pumps to produce energy. \u003ccite>(Philip Salata/inewsource)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Open pit mining and harvesting lithium from evaporation pools use hazardous chemicals such as hydrochloric acid as well as an exorbitant amount of water and have been known to deplete and contaminate groundwater, disrupt sensitive ecosystems, and in turn, harm local populations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Imperial Valley, some community members see lithium mining as potentially exacerbating the community’s health problems, which endure while residents continue to grapple with\u003ca href=\"https://pacinst.org/salton-sea/#:~:text=The%20Sea%20faces%20a%20host,efforts%20to%20address%20that%20change.\"> environmental hazards stemming from the Salton Sea\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trying to build local support, the lithium companies have held numerous public meetings where they discuss benefits they plan to give back to the community. They’re also explaining their “direct lithium extraction” methods, currently in development, and pitching them as safer to the environment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The DLE process makes use of existing geothermal plants, which pump very hot brine to the surface to generate electricity and then pump the remaining brine back into the earth. DLE adds the step of mixing the brine with chemicals to extract the lithium, reducing the waste to something called filter cake.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Companies allege DLE is much less harmful to the environment, and it is, according to some preliminary studies. But with how new the technology is, long-term impacts are yet to be known.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Lithium dreams for locals\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>As Imperial Valley communities prepare for the lithium future there, the promise of jobs remains a shifting target, and fault lines and new alliances have emerged among local stakeholders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Imperial Valley College President Lennor M. Johnson says the lithium industry’s development could trigger transformative growth not just in the industries that use lithium in manufacturing but also in the expansion of jobs and services necessary to accommodate that growth. He sees housing, hotels, schools, entertainment centers and malls as part of that growth — all amenities that could make the Imperial Valley a place where younger people see a future for themselves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I can truly envision that Imperial County is going to look something like Temecula in the next five, ten years,” Johnson said, referring to the rural community north of San Diego that went through a similar transformation over the last several years. For Temecula, it was the promise of affordable housing that expedited growth. For Imperial County, housing would be just one part of the equation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Lithium is one component,” Johnson said. “Expansion is going to be very necessary and crucial, which is going to just really put Imperial County on the map.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stakeholders, investors and community members have been discussing the viability of the industry in Imperial Valley for several years. Planning entities, such as the Lithium Valley Commission, were set up to facilitate conversation among the numerous interested and skeptical parties. The process has not been smooth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For one, representation has been an issue. Both the\u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/24101288-tn247499_20221116t155706_quechan-indian-tribe-comments-on-lithium-valley-commission-draft-report-1\"> Quechan Indian Tribe\u003c/a> and the\u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/24119095-tn247100_20221028t144827_torres-martinez-desert-cahuilla-indians-comments-follow-up-on-january-21s\"> Torres Martinez Desert Cahuilla Indians\u003c/a> raised numerous issues, including concerns over ancestral lands and being invited to the table later than others. And when community members and representatives suggested that lithium should be taxed and the funds be distributed to frontline communities, tensions flared between pro-tax and pro-industry interest groups.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Approved last year,\u003ca href=\"https://www.cdtfa.ca.gov/taxes-and-fees/lithium-extraction-excise-tax.htm\"> the tax\u003c/a> calls for producers to pay monthly in the hundreds of dollars per metric ton of extracted lithium, depending on the size of the operation. The money is slated for Salton Sea restoration projects, community projects at or around the sea and the counties impacted by lithium extraction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>How much communities will see is anyone’s guess — the money won’t be collected until commercial production begins. In one estimate, EnergySource Minerals CEO Eric Spomer said that over the next 30 years, the company alone anticipates delivering $720 million in taxes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eric Reyes and Isabel Solis of Los Amigos de la Comunidad are among the advocates insisting that communities impacted get their fair share.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“From the beginning, the community has been very wary,” Reyes said. “People have come in to use our resources and made billions of dollars through the years, and our community stays generally poor.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Investment in education locally has fueled hopes that the lithium industry will greatly benefit the community. The state gave $80 million alone to build a STEM building on San Diego State University’s Imperial Valley campus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Imperial Valley College acted even faster, forging relationships with the lithium companies to create their certificate program. Silva aims to grow the program into IVC’s first-ever bachelor’s degree, a particularly meaningful goal in a region with limited access to higher education. He also has additional lithium programs on his roadmap as demand grows.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11968369\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/imperial_miners-1-27.jpg\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11968369\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/imperial_miners-1-27.jpg\" alt=\"A woman wearing a dark blue shirt stands inside a room with a cross and plant in the background.\" width=\"800\" height=\"1200\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/imperial_miners-1-27.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/imperial_miners-1-27-160x240.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rose Fernandez poses at her home in El Centro on Oct. 15, 2023. Though she is a single mother with four kids and a full-time job, she went back to school with hopes of earning a better salary. \u003ccite>(Philip Salata/inewsource)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The IVC program convinced students like Rose Fernandez to return to school despite it adding to her already full plate as a single mom of four children, working full time at EnergySource Minerals for minimum wage. She says she’s thankful for the job that she found through a temp agency, especially for the benefits, but it’s still hard to make ends meet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When EnergySource Minerals launches its commercial lithium operation, called ATLiS, Fernandez wants to be ready for opportunities that need her advanced skills and pay more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’re going to be able to say, hey, I got my certificate,” Fernandez said. “I got education, and that’s what employers look for — education.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Silva says he’s heard lithium could create up to 2,500 jobs in Imperial Valley but thinks it may be less. Companies have their own estimates, which vary. ATLiS aims to have 71 new jobs at its lithium venture set to produce commercial lithium in 2026.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Spomer, the EnergySource Minerals CEO, told inewsource that they “‘anticipate a vast majority of the direct jobs created by ESM to be filled locally,” and that they expect to hire plant operators during construction.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Our class, Our Lithium\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The plant operator’s class feels like the deck of a ship crewed by an eclectic and storied bunch, full of jokes and candor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That may be in part due to the professor. It’s Rafael Serrano’s first time teaching, but he has worked with pumps and engines since he joined the Navy at 19. Afterward, he worked for the Imperial Irrigation District as well as energy companies in the valley — when it comes to the trade, he doesn’t lack experience.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11968452\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 924px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/Screenshot-2023-11-28-at-10.17.49-AM.png\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11968452\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/Screenshot-2023-11-28-at-10.17.49-AM.png\" alt=\"A man wearing goggles and a blue shirt holds up a bottle of liquid in one hand with the other bottle held to his chest.\" width=\"924\" height=\"1384\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/Screenshot-2023-11-28-at-10.17.49-AM.png 924w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/Screenshot-2023-11-28-at-10.17.49-AM-800x1198.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/Screenshot-2023-11-28-at-10.17.49-AM-160x240.png 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 924px) 100vw, 924px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rafael Serrano holds the brine (left) from which lithium (right) is extracted on Oct. 5, 2023. \u003ccite>(Philip Salata/inewsource)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>As for teaching, he said his wife told him “It’s one of those things where there is no manual.” So Serrano gives ample room for the students to show up with all their character.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The class is learning how to safely and smoothly run a pump system. They learn on a miniature version of pump systems at the geothermal plants lining the Salton Sea. When the pump is on and it sounds like it’s off, that’s one sign the students calibrated it right — no vibrations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Serrano teaches two cohorts, a total of 59 students, including five women.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fernandez is among the five and says there are opportunities for women in the field, but “they have to think that it’s not just for men.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the students, jobs in the lithium industry promise a new way of making ends meet and perhaps something that could significantly change their way of life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A pest control specialist now studying lithium extraction, Dylan Charles has been leafing through books about lithium for years. He was taken aback when he started “hearing rumblings” about the valley having potential to drive U.S. domestic lithium production.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s a huge development,” Charles said. “I don’t think a lot of people realize just how big that is.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wallace Phillips sees the industry as something that could hold families together. The retired El Centro traffic signal operator says his own children left the valley for lack of economic opportunity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Phillips is hopeful for the future but also holds on to his skepticism. When he saw two congressmen at a community meeting in nearby Calipatria, a community on the front line of the geothermal plants, he thought “‘it’s a little late.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He went down the list of problems they should solve if they really mean to help, from access to healthcare to the toxic Salton Sea. Those problems didn’t emerge recently, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, he turned bright the moment he looked back toward the model pump and recalled the feeling of when he and his classmates calibrated it to a silent hum.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s great when you feel like you’re part of something.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11968368\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/imperial_miners-1-20.jpg\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11968368\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/imperial_miners-1-20.jpg\" alt=\"A man wearing a sleeveless shirt sits in a pew at a church.\" width=\"1800\" height=\"1200\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/imperial_miners-1-20.jpg 1800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/imperial_miners-1-20-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/imperial_miners-1-20-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/imperial_miners-1-20-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/imperial_miners-1-20-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1800px) 100vw, 1800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Wallace Phillips looks back at his congregation after sharing some of his experience returning to school at the age of 64 at the Johnson Chapel Methodist Episcopal Church on Oct. 15, 2023. \u003ccite>(Philip Salata/inewsource)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"https://inewsource.org/2023/11/06/lithium-california-white-gold-electric-salton-sea-imperial-valley/","authors":["byline_news_11968317"],"categories":["news_8"],"tags":["news_21973","news_27626","news_28126","news_33551"],"featImg":"news_11968367","label":"source_news_11968317"},"news_11961400":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11961400","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11961400","score":null,"sort":[1694813717000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"california-legislature-approves-plan-allow-state-buy-power","title":"Power Play: California Legislature Allows State to Buy Massive Amounts of Electricity","publishDate":1694813717,"format":"standard","headTitle":"Power Play: California Legislature Allows State to Buy Massive Amounts of Electricity | KQED","labelTerm":{"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>The California Legislature voted Thursday to give Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom’s administration permission to buy massive amounts of electricity, a move aimed at \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/california-941c5a94c7bc7b1f93e1ed4bf6560fd4\">avoiding blackouts\u003c/a> by shoring up the state’s power supply while jumpstarting the West Coast’s fledgling offshore wind industry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Five companies paid roughly \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/business-california-united-states-government-rwe-ag-climate-and-environment-87f602496e34299f5429a3d8a67ae478\">$750 million\u003c/a> last year to lease areas off the California coast to build wind turbines. Collectively, those projects could generate enough electricity to power 3.5 million homes, helping the state avoid blackouts during extreme heat waves that have routinely strained the electrical grid of the nation’s most populous state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But so far, the state’s largest utility companies have not been willing to commit to buying power from projects like those because it would cost too much money and take too long to build. In addition to building the wind turbines, the projects will require improvements at the state’s ports and new power lines to transport the energy from the ocean to the land.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is a major, generational series of investments that need to happen, and there’s a real risk [that] it won’t if we can’t provide more certainty,” said Alex Jackson, director of the American Clean Power Association, which represents the companies trying to build the wind projects.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bill would \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/california-blackouts-wind-geothermal-energy-fd6e382afd43c3e88d8a35a8dc22578f\">let the state buy the power\u003c/a>. The money would come from a surcharge imposed on Californians’ electricity bills. State regulators would decide how much this charge would be. Consumers would not pay it until the wind projects are up and running, likely several years from now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California already has among the highest electricity rates in the country. [pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Alex Jackson, director, American Clean Power Association\"]‘This is a major, generational series of investments that need to happen, and there’s a real risk [that] it won’t if we can’t provide more certainty.’[/pullquote] “This legislation … means that every single ratepayer in California, no matter where you live, is going to pay for this,” said Republican state Sen. Brian Dahle, who opposes the bill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supporters argue the bill will save people money in the long run on their electric bills. California has a law requiring all of its electricity to come from renewable or non-carbon sources by 2045. To do that, supporters say the state will have to invest in offshore wind projects, which typically generate the most power at night when solar energy is not as abundant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supporters say it would be more efficient for these offshore wind projects to sell all of their electricity to the state instead of selling pieces of it to multiple utility companies, helping to control costs and keep rates lower.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The biggest threat to us meeting our climate goals between now and 2045 are rate impacts to ratepayers,” Scott Wetch, a lobbyist representing various construction trade associations, told lawmakers in a recent public hearing. “[This bill] is the only way to bring down those costs on these large, complex, long lead time projects in order to minimize the rate impacts.” [aside postID=science_1983253 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2023/07/RS42448_GettyImages-94155086-qut-1020x680.jpg'] The bill gives the Department of Water Resources the authority to purchase the power — but not forever. Their authority would expire in 2035. Lawmakers would have to vote again to extend it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California has moved quickly to end its reliance on fossil fuels in recent years. State regulators have OK’d rules \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/technology-california-air-resources-board-climate-and-environment-dc75c11280f85a8ab134cf392497be68\">banning the sale\u003c/a> of most new gas-powered cars by 2035. But the state has struggled to maintain its clean energy values amid that transition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An extreme heat wave in 2020 overwhelmed the state’s power grid, leaving hundreds of thousands of homes in the dark for a few hours over two days. Similar heat waves in the following summers prompted regulators to ask consumers to use less energy when demand was at its peak in the early evenings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom and the state Legislature have since spent $3.3 billion to build a “strategic reliability reserve” that included purchasing \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/technology-california-sacramento-gavin-newsom-power-outages-0c520b790860fac7326cfdcdb4d3a785#:~:text=(AP)%20%E2%80%94%20A%20record%20heat,use%20of%20oil%20and%20gas.\">diesel-powered generators\u003c/a> and extending the life of some gas-fired power plants that were scheduled to retire. [aside label='More on Clean Energy' tag='clean-energy'] “There are things happening right now in energy policy that give me some pause about the efficacy of our strategy,” Democratic state Sen. Henry Stern lamented during a public hearing on the bill last week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State law requires utility companies to have enough energy to meet demand. If they don’t, the bill would require those companies to pay a penalty. The Newsom administration has said this will prevent utilities from relying too much on the strategic reliability reserve, which uses gas-powered generators that pollute the air.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alice Reynolds, president of the California Public Utilities Commission, said the state has completed more than 100 projects that have added 9,000 megawatts of new clean energy in the past three years. The bill lawmakers approved on Wednesday also includes provisions to fast-track new electric transmission projects.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We need to act quickly and we need to really have all hands on deck,” Reynolds said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Gov. Gavin Newsom can now buy massive amounts of electricity, with a goal to prevent blackouts, and kickstart the West Coast’s fledging offshore wind industry.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1694815091,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":17,"wordCount":907},"headData":{"title":"Power Play: California Legislature Allows State to Buy Massive Amounts of Electricity | KQED","description":"Gov. Gavin Newsom can now buy massive amounts of electricity, with a goal to prevent blackouts, and kickstart the West Coast’s fledging offshore wind industry.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"Power Play: California Legislature Allows State to Buy Massive Amounts of Electricity","datePublished":"2023-09-15T21:35:17.000Z","dateModified":"2023-09-15T21:58:11.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"Y","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"nprByline":"\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/adambeam\">Adam Beam\u003c/a> \u003cbr> The Associated Press","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","showOnAuthorArchivePages":"No","articleAge":"0","path":"/news/11961400/california-legislature-approves-plan-allow-state-buy-power","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>The California Legislature voted Thursday to give Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom’s administration permission to buy massive amounts of electricity, a move aimed at \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/california-941c5a94c7bc7b1f93e1ed4bf6560fd4\">avoiding blackouts\u003c/a> by shoring up the state’s power supply while jumpstarting the West Coast’s fledgling offshore wind industry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Five companies paid roughly \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/business-california-united-states-government-rwe-ag-climate-and-environment-87f602496e34299f5429a3d8a67ae478\">$750 million\u003c/a> last year to lease areas off the California coast to build wind turbines. Collectively, those projects could generate enough electricity to power 3.5 million homes, helping the state avoid blackouts during extreme heat waves that have routinely strained the electrical grid of the nation’s most populous state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But so far, the state’s largest utility companies have not been willing to commit to buying power from projects like those because it would cost too much money and take too long to build. In addition to building the wind turbines, the projects will require improvements at the state’s ports and new power lines to transport the energy from the ocean to the land.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is a major, generational series of investments that need to happen, and there’s a real risk [that] it won’t if we can’t provide more certainty,” said Alex Jackson, director of the American Clean Power Association, which represents the companies trying to build the wind projects.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bill would \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/california-blackouts-wind-geothermal-energy-fd6e382afd43c3e88d8a35a8dc22578f\">let the state buy the power\u003c/a>. The money would come from a surcharge imposed on Californians’ electricity bills. State regulators would decide how much this charge would be. Consumers would not pay it until the wind projects are up and running, likely several years from now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California already has among the highest electricity rates in the country. \u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"‘This is a major, generational series of investments that need to happen, and there’s a real risk [that] it won’t if we can’t provide more certainty.’","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"right","citation":"Alex Jackson, director, American Clean Power Association","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp> “This legislation … means that every single ratepayer in California, no matter where you live, is going to pay for this,” said Republican state Sen. Brian Dahle, who opposes the bill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supporters argue the bill will save people money in the long run on their electric bills. California has a law requiring all of its electricity to come from renewable or non-carbon sources by 2045. To do that, supporters say the state will have to invest in offshore wind projects, which typically generate the most power at night when solar energy is not as abundant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supporters say it would be more efficient for these offshore wind projects to sell all of their electricity to the state instead of selling pieces of it to multiple utility companies, helping to control costs and keep rates lower.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The biggest threat to us meeting our climate goals between now and 2045 are rate impacts to ratepayers,” Scott Wetch, a lobbyist representing various construction trade associations, told lawmakers in a recent public hearing. “[This bill] is the only way to bring down those costs on these large, complex, long lead time projects in order to minimize the rate impacts.” \u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"science_1983253","hero":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2023/07/RS42448_GettyImages-94155086-qut-1020x680.jpg","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp> The bill gives the Department of Water Resources the authority to purchase the power — but not forever. Their authority would expire in 2035. Lawmakers would have to vote again to extend it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California has moved quickly to end its reliance on fossil fuels in recent years. State regulators have OK’d rules \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/technology-california-air-resources-board-climate-and-environment-dc75c11280f85a8ab134cf392497be68\">banning the sale\u003c/a> of most new gas-powered cars by 2035. But the state has struggled to maintain its clean energy values amid that transition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An extreme heat wave in 2020 overwhelmed the state’s power grid, leaving hundreds of thousands of homes in the dark for a few hours over two days. Similar heat waves in the following summers prompted regulators to ask consumers to use less energy when demand was at its peak in the early evenings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom and the state Legislature have since spent $3.3 billion to build a “strategic reliability reserve” that included purchasing \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/technology-california-sacramento-gavin-newsom-power-outages-0c520b790860fac7326cfdcdb4d3a785#:~:text=(AP)%20%E2%80%94%20A%20record%20heat,use%20of%20oil%20and%20gas.\">diesel-powered generators\u003c/a> and extending the life of some gas-fired power plants that were scheduled to retire. \u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"label":"More on Clean Energy ","tag":"clean-energy"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp> “There are things happening right now in energy policy that give me some pause about the efficacy of our strategy,” Democratic state Sen. Henry Stern lamented during a public hearing on the bill last week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State law requires utility companies to have enough energy to meet demand. If they don’t, the bill would require those companies to pay a penalty. The Newsom administration has said this will prevent utilities from relying too much on the strategic reliability reserve, which uses gas-powered generators that pollute the air.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alice Reynolds, president of the California Public Utilities Commission, said the state has completed more than 100 projects that have added 9,000 megawatts of new clean energy in the past three years. The bill lawmakers approved on Wednesday also includes provisions to fast-track new electric transmission projects.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We need to act quickly and we need to really have all hands on deck,” Reynolds said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11961400/california-legislature-approves-plan-allow-state-buy-power","authors":["byline_news_11961400"],"categories":["news_31795","news_19906","news_8"],"tags":["news_28699","news_5505","news_2704","news_29147","news_21349","news_33200","news_20588","news_21973","news_20023","news_16","news_31571","news_33199","news_29509"],"featImg":"news_11961404","label":"news"},"news_11924932":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11924932","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11924932","score":null,"sort":[1662550846000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"record-heat-wave-puts-california-in-fossil-fuel-conundrum","title":"Record Heat Wave Puts California in Fossil Fuel Conundrum","publishDate":1662550846,"format":"standard","headTitle":"KQED News","labelTerm":{"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>A record heat wave put California in a fossil fuel conundrum: The state has had to rely more heavily on natural gas to produce electricity and avoid power outages while Gov. Gavin Newsom’s administration moves toward ending the use of oil and gas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The heat wave that started more than a week ago has been hotter and longer than any other in the state, and it put \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/science-california-gavin-newsom-heat-waves-ec7ce8cf0210573892cfb00fc2954d10\">unprecedented strain on power supplies\u003c/a>. That prompted Newsom to plead with people to use less power to avoid rolling blackouts — a practice that involves cutting some people’s power to save energy so the lights can stay on for everyone else. [pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Ari Eisenstadt, campaign manager, Regenerate California\"]'Folks have been talking about natural gas as a bridge for decades. And if it were truly a bridge, we would have crossed it by now.'[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The effort worked, but meeting the state’s heightened energy demand also required activating generators fueled by natural gas, which is still a major part of the state’s power picture. The Democratic governor’s calls for conservation also drew criticism about \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/technology-california-air-resources-board-climate-and-environment-dc75c11280f85a8ab134cf392497be68\">new state policies governing electric vehicles\u003c/a> and other measures that will only increase energy demand.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom, speaking to reporters Wednesday, said the “pretty extreme” circumstances required the state to turn to more natural gas as a backup supply.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We all want to accelerate the elimination of the gas, but it’s a sober reminder of reality,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tuesday’s demand for 52,000 megawatts set a record, as triple-digit temperatures blanketed much of the state. Sacramento hit a record high of 116 degrees, and normally cooler places like San Francisco and San Diego also reached sizzling temperatures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Demand will only climb in the years ahead. By 2045, when the state is mandated to get all of its electricity from non-carbon or renewable sources, demand is expected to be as high as 78,000 megawatts due to more electric home appliances and cars on the road, the California Energy Commission estimates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To meet that demand, both the government and major utilities like Pacific Gas and Electric are working to scale up renewable sources such as solar and wind power, as well as large-scale batteries that can store that power for use at night. The California Public Utilities Commission last year ordered utilities to procure enough additional power for 2.5 million homes by 2026.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom just signed legislation aimed at keeping the state’s last \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/california-legislature-gavin-newsom-climate-and-environment-4968ee9da7fd1d10ad67bfdf03950873\">nuclear plant open\u003c/a> for five years beyond its planned 2025 closure, and he suggested Wednesday that the plant could run even longer if needed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The sun is typically the state’s biggest power source during the day. But as the hot weather arrived, natural gas surpassed renewables for more time over the past week, according to the California Independent System Operator, which is responsible for managing and maintaining reliability on the state’s power grid.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gas was the primary energy source all day on Tuesday — the expected peak of the brutal temperatures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, on Monday the state for the first time turned on four gas-powered generators to add more supply, enough to power 120,000 homes. It planned to rely on some diesel-powered generators as well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But some of the state’s fossil-fuel plants have their own reliability problems. Several power plants, including aging gas-fired ones along California’s coast, partially broke down or produced less energy than planned, according to the ISO.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Four of the plants, which suck up ocean water to cool down their equipment, were slated to close in 2020, but the state has continually extended their lives to help stabilize the power supply. They now plan to stay open until at least 2023, but \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/california-gavin-newsom-solar-power-climate-and-environment-036f59845ab510729378e52a39b81ae1\">they could last even longer\u003c/a> under legislation Newsom signed in June.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the state wants to keep the old coastal gas-powered plants online beyond 2023, it needs to give the companies that own them more certainty about the future so they can decide whether to spend money to maintain them, said Siva Gunda, vice chair of the California Energy Commission, the state’s energy planning agency.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Everything has to be moved forward at full throttle” with the “ambitious aim” that cleaner energy sources make up most of the state’s power reserves, he said.[aside tag=\"heat, power\" label=\"More Related Stories\"]The intensity of the heat wave only emphasizes the need for California to move away from fossil fuels as quickly as possible, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The grid challenges also provided plenty of fodder for Newsom’s political critics, who have argued that Democrats’ policies to move away from oil and gas don’t add up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state recently adopted new regulations aimed at ending the sale of most new gas-powered cars in the state by 2035. But during the heat wave, officials urged people not to charge cars or use other large appliances at night. The state has not banned car charging, but instead urged people to do so during the day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Gavin Newsom — You have to buy an electric car. Also Gavin Newsom — But you can’t charge it,” Republican state Sen. Melissa Melendez tweeted Tuesday evening after the state sent out an emergency wireless alert urging people to reduce power use.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Environmental groups say planning failures led California to rely on natural gas — and even ramp up its use — during the heat wave. The state needs to set clearer goals and benchmarks to meet its clean energy targets and ensure that fossil fuels aren’t used as a backup, said Ari Eisenstadt, campaign manager for Regenerate California, a campaign aimed at ending fossil fuel use in the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Folks have been talking about natural gas as a bridge for decades,” he said. “And if it were truly a bridge, we would have crossed it by now.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Michael R. Blood of The Associated Press contributed reporting from Beverly Hills.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"A record heat wave put California in a fossil fuel conundrum: The state has had to rely more heavily on natural gas to produce electricity and avoid power outages while Gov. 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Gavin Newsom’s administration moves toward ending the use of oil and gas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The heat wave that started more than a week ago has been hotter and longer than any other in the state, and it put \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/science-california-gavin-newsom-heat-waves-ec7ce8cf0210573892cfb00fc2954d10\">unprecedented strain on power supplies\u003c/a>. That prompted Newsom to plead with people to use less power to avoid rolling blackouts — a practice that involves cutting some people’s power to save energy so the lights can stay on for everyone else. \u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"'Folks have been talking about natural gas as a bridge for decades. 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The Democratic governor’s calls for conservation also drew criticism about \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/technology-california-air-resources-board-climate-and-environment-dc75c11280f85a8ab134cf392497be68\">new state policies governing electric vehicles\u003c/a> and other measures that will only increase energy demand.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom, speaking to reporters Wednesday, said the “pretty extreme” circumstances required the state to turn to more natural gas as a backup supply.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We all want to accelerate the elimination of the gas, but it’s a sober reminder of reality,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tuesday’s demand for 52,000 megawatts set a record, as triple-digit temperatures blanketed much of the state. Sacramento hit a record high of 116 degrees, and normally cooler places like San Francisco and San Diego also reached sizzling temperatures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Demand will only climb in the years ahead. By 2045, when the state is mandated to get all of its electricity from non-carbon or renewable sources, demand is expected to be as high as 78,000 megawatts due to more electric home appliances and cars on the road, the California Energy Commission estimates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To meet that demand, both the government and major utilities like Pacific Gas and Electric are working to scale up renewable sources such as solar and wind power, as well as large-scale batteries that can store that power for use at night. The California Public Utilities Commission last year ordered utilities to procure enough additional power for 2.5 million homes by 2026.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom just signed legislation aimed at keeping the state’s last \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/california-legislature-gavin-newsom-climate-and-environment-4968ee9da7fd1d10ad67bfdf03950873\">nuclear plant open\u003c/a> for five years beyond its planned 2025 closure, and he suggested Wednesday that the plant could run even longer if needed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The sun is typically the state’s biggest power source during the day. But as the hot weather arrived, natural gas surpassed renewables for more time over the past week, according to the California Independent System Operator, which is responsible for managing and maintaining reliability on the state’s power grid.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gas was the primary energy source all day on Tuesday — the expected peak of the brutal temperatures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, on Monday the state for the first time turned on four gas-powered generators to add more supply, enough to power 120,000 homes. It planned to rely on some diesel-powered generators as well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But some of the state’s fossil-fuel plants have their own reliability problems. Several power plants, including aging gas-fired ones along California’s coast, partially broke down or produced less energy than planned, according to the ISO.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Four of the plants, which suck up ocean water to cool down their equipment, were slated to close in 2020, but the state has continually extended their lives to help stabilize the power supply. They now plan to stay open until at least 2023, but \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/california-gavin-newsom-solar-power-climate-and-environment-036f59845ab510729378e52a39b81ae1\">they could last even longer\u003c/a> under legislation Newsom signed in June.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the state wants to keep the old coastal gas-powered plants online beyond 2023, it needs to give the companies that own them more certainty about the future so they can decide whether to spend money to maintain them, said Siva Gunda, vice chair of the California Energy Commission, the state’s energy planning agency.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Everything has to be moved forward at full throttle” with the “ambitious aim” that cleaner energy sources make up most of the state’s power reserves, he said.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"tag":"heat, power","label":"More Related Stories "},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>The intensity of the heat wave only emphasizes the need for California to move away from fossil fuels as quickly as possible, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The grid challenges also provided plenty of fodder for Newsom’s political critics, who have argued that Democrats’ policies to move away from oil and gas don’t add up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state recently adopted new regulations aimed at ending the sale of most new gas-powered cars in the state by 2035. But during the heat wave, officials urged people not to charge cars or use other large appliances at night. The state has not banned car charging, but instead urged people to do so during the day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Gavin Newsom — You have to buy an electric car. Also Gavin Newsom — But you can’t charge it,” Republican state Sen. Melissa Melendez tweeted Tuesday evening after the state sent out an emergency wireless alert urging people to reduce power use.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Environmental groups say planning failures led California to rely on natural gas — and even ramp up its use — during the heat wave. The state needs to set clearer goals and benchmarks to meet its clean energy targets and ensure that fossil fuels aren’t used as a backup, said Ari Eisenstadt, campaign manager for Regenerate California, a campaign aimed at ending fossil fuel use in the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Folks have been talking about natural gas as a bridge for decades,” he said. “And if it were truly a bridge, we would have crossed it by now.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Michael R. 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A massive energy utility emerging from bankruptcy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California's electric grid is under considerable strain, with energy operators facing mounting challenges in consistently keeping the lights on for millions of residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But this is hardly the first time the state has faced an energy predicament.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Twenty years ago, in 2001, a recently deregulated California energy market suddenly found itself without enough juice to power the state. Rolling blackouts shut down businesses, PG&E filed for bankruptcy (the first time around), the state’s economy contracted and the administration of then-Gov. Gray Davis spiraled into crisis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Enter Enron Corporation, a Houston-based energy company whose brokers created an artificial electricity shortage by taking power plants offline, thereby raising prices by 800% or more. The firm ultimately unraveled when whistleblowers revealed that its managers were cooking the books, but not before the company wreaked havoc on energy markets, including in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Early this week, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101884358/20-years-after-enron-and-rolling-blackouts-what-have-we-learned\">KQED Forum guest host Lily Jamali\u003c/a> spoke to former government officials and a veteran journalist to gauge what the state may have learned from that tumultuous period.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Forum guests included:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Loretta Lynch\u003c/strong>, the former president of the California Public Utilities Commission\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Steve Weissman\u003c/strong>, an energy expert at the UC Berkeley Goldman School of Public Policy, who directed the CPUC's initial investigation into the 2001 energy crisis\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Rebecca Smith\u003c/strong>, a Wall Street Journal energy reporter, who was a Pulitzer Prize finalist for her coverage of the 2001 crisis\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Gray Davis\u003c/strong>, the former governor of California\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>The following interview has been edited for length and clarity.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What was the energy crisis like from where you sat? It's easy to see now what a calamity this was. But was the gravity of the problem clear to you in those early days?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Gov. Gray Davis: \u003c/strong>That was the whole problem, we couldn't figure out what was creating the blackouts. So six months after I left office, a video was released where Enron ordered that the power serving the city of San Francisco would go down and there were traffic accidents, and computers didn't work and all kinds of problems ensued.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The reason that date is important, it was four days after a whole bunch of us met in Washington [D.C.] to see if there couldn't be some sort of settlement arrangement. And I had two Republicans and two Democrats and all five of us rejected the only proposal that Enron and the other energy providers suggested, which was to raise rates ... five to 10 times what used to be paid for electricity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And none of us wanted the ratepayers to bear that burden because the ratepayers were not pushing for energy deregulation. That was the energy company. So I suspected all along that Enron was up to no good. I never thought they would be ordering blackouts, but that's exactly what they did. And why did they do it? To drive up electricity prices.[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Loretta Lynch, former CPUC president\"]'We created an electricity market that has become a casino for the electricity traders. And we all pay and pay and pay. We have to shut down that casino or protect our people and our businesses.'[/pullquote]\u003cstrong>Rebecca Smith\u003c/strong>: I was actually worried about the California market from the moment it was deregulated. That happened, ironically, on April Fools Day in 1998. I was worried because I had watched the Legislature put together Assembly Bill 1890, which was the bill that deregulated California's retail market. And after that law was passed, I interviewed people about the contents. I went through it literally line by line to try to understand everything that was included in that bill. And what I discovered was that the number of people in the Legislature whom I felt could actually show that they had a full understanding of that law, you could count the number of people on one hand. And I found that very worrisome, even though the thing passed nearly unanimously.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>It sounds like you had a fairly clear view of just how dire the situation was, perhaps sooner than a lot of other players.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Loretta Lynch\u003c/strong>: That came from the private sector. I was a white-collar criminal defense lawyer before I joined the state government, so I knew a criminal when I saw one, and I knew that Enron was engaged in criminal activity. The question to me was, was it a criminal conspiracy? And it turned out, yes, it was. The problem is, the law that Rebecca Smith talked about almost let the criminals win. They designed the electricity market, which was brand new in the United States then. It was by them and they operated it. So not surprisingly, they got away with all sorts of fraud and it took government a really long time to catch up to them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 16 years of Republicans before Gov. Davis was elected intentionally starved the regulatory agencies so that they would not be able to catch the crooks from 20 years ago, Enron and its cronies took advantage of California's new electricity markets to defraud those systems for profit. And that severely damaged California's economy and frankly, helped the historic recall. The political and economic fallout of their fraud was vast.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Did you get the sense that there was corruption involved in this on the part of the state Legislature and on the part of regulators? \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Rebecca Smith\u003c/strong>: No, I would not say I felt there was corruption, I felt what we saw was what we always see, which is that well-heeled interests that have money and that have an economic stake in outcomes are the most active forces in crafting legislation and participating in rulemaking proceedings. I mean, they're the ones who have the time and the money to be active participants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside tag=\"energy\" label=\"Related coverage\"]So what we really need is to make sure that the organizations and agencies that are responsible for representing consumers, that they also receive the resources they need. We need the ratepayer advocate office of the U.S. and these other institutions to be well resourced. They have to be in the game. They have to be representing the rest of us.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>How can we prevent future blackouts?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Loretta Lynch: \u003c/b>Other Western states and other local government-owned utilities within California are not blacking their customers out and are not charging these exorbitant prices. This isn't about climate change — the blackouts — because they all face droughts, wildfires and too little water to run their hydro systems.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The difference here is, California turned its electricity system over to a private corporation that answers to the feds. And we created an electricity market that has become a casino for the electricity traders. And we all pay and pay and pay. We have to shut down that casino or protect our people and our businesses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>I know from speaking with fire survivors in places like Paradise, in Sonoma County, they want nothing more than to not have to have PG&E provide their power. How realistic is it, this idea of decentralizing or having people kind of do their own thing? \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Steve Weissman\u003c/strong>: Well, as it happens, UC Irvine is now really on the cutting edge in terms of trying to develop its own internal reliability by creating what people refer to as a microgrid, which would have a lot of the features like renewable energy sources and storage and the ability to relate to the bigger grid, but to isolate when there's a problem on the bigger grid.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There's a difference in terms of what reliability means to different kinds of customers. And there is now, fully, the technological capability of having these microgrids not only serving something as holistic as one university campus, but serving broader communities, taking care of emergency services within a particular city, for instance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But we have a challenge in the state law, which was designed to protect the monopoly status of traditional utilities and doesn't allow for this kind of, what I'd call, a community-based microgrid system, to be installed without being encumbered with all the regulations that traditional utilities would have. And efforts to deal with this in the Legislature have been quashed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I think there's a tremendous amount of concern, especially among the utility workers' representatives, that this would somehow lead to a loss of good union jobs. And I think that's not a necessary result.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But in the meantime, the state is spending, through the energy commission, millions of dollars to promote various kinds of pilot examples of these microgrids. And I think there's no doubt that you could not only improve local reliability by having that kind of structure, but you also could improve the reliability of the broader grid by having many, many decentralized energy sources to work with.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Listen to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101884358/20-years-after-enron-and-rolling-blackouts-what-have-we-learned\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">KQED Forum\u003c/a> to hear the full episode.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"What California can learn from its fiasco 20 years ago, when it suddenly found itself without enough energy to keep the lights on, prompting rolling blackouts.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1626484055,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":34,"wordCount":1515},"headData":{"title":"What Lessons Can California Learn From Its Energy Crisis 20 Years Ago? | KQED","description":"What California can learn from its fiasco 20 years ago, when it suddenly found itself without enough energy to keep the lights on, prompting rolling blackouts.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"What Lessons Can California Learn From Its Energy Crisis 20 Years Ago?","datePublished":"2021-07-17T14:00:39.000Z","dateModified":"2021-07-17T01:07:35.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"Y","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"disqusIdentifier":"11881207 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11881207","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2021/07/17/what-lessons-can-california-learn-from-its-energy-crisis-20-years-ago/","disqusTitle":"What Lessons Can California Learn From Its Energy Crisis 20 Years Ago?","audioUrl":"https://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/traffic.megaphone.fm/KQINC7779908653.mp3","path":"/news/11881207/what-lessons-can-california-learn-from-its-energy-crisis-20-years-ago","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Wildfires. Heat waves. A massive energy utility emerging from bankruptcy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California's electric grid is under considerable strain, with energy operators facing mounting challenges in consistently keeping the lights on for millions of residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But this is hardly the first time the state has faced an energy predicament.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Twenty years ago, in 2001, a recently deregulated California energy market suddenly found itself without enough juice to power the state. Rolling blackouts shut down businesses, PG&E filed for bankruptcy (the first time around), the state’s economy contracted and the administration of then-Gov. Gray Davis spiraled into crisis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Enter Enron Corporation, a Houston-based energy company whose brokers created an artificial electricity shortage by taking power plants offline, thereby raising prices by 800% or more. The firm ultimately unraveled when whistleblowers revealed that its managers were cooking the books, but not before the company wreaked havoc on energy markets, including in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Early this week, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101884358/20-years-after-enron-and-rolling-blackouts-what-have-we-learned\">KQED Forum guest host Lily Jamali\u003c/a> spoke to former government officials and a veteran journalist to gauge what the state may have learned from that tumultuous period.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Forum guests included:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Loretta Lynch\u003c/strong>, the former president of the California Public Utilities Commission\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Steve Weissman\u003c/strong>, an energy expert at the UC Berkeley Goldman School of Public Policy, who directed the CPUC's initial investigation into the 2001 energy crisis\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Rebecca Smith\u003c/strong>, a Wall Street Journal energy reporter, who was a Pulitzer Prize finalist for her coverage of the 2001 crisis\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Gray Davis\u003c/strong>, the former governor of California\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>The following interview has been edited for length and clarity.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What was the energy crisis like from where you sat? It's easy to see now what a calamity this was. But was the gravity of the problem clear to you in those early days?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Gov. Gray Davis: \u003c/strong>That was the whole problem, we couldn't figure out what was creating the blackouts. So six months after I left office, a video was released where Enron ordered that the power serving the city of San Francisco would go down and there were traffic accidents, and computers didn't work and all kinds of problems ensued.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The reason that date is important, it was four days after a whole bunch of us met in Washington [D.C.] to see if there couldn't be some sort of settlement arrangement. And I had two Republicans and two Democrats and all five of us rejected the only proposal that Enron and the other energy providers suggested, which was to raise rates ... five to 10 times what used to be paid for electricity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And none of us wanted the ratepayers to bear that burden because the ratepayers were not pushing for energy deregulation. That was the energy company. So I suspected all along that Enron was up to no good. I never thought they would be ordering blackouts, but that's exactly what they did. And why did they do it? To drive up electricity prices.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"'We created an electricity market that has become a casino for the electricity traders. And we all pay and pay and pay. We have to shut down that casino or protect our people and our businesses.'","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"right","citation":"Loretta Lynch, former CPUC president","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Rebecca Smith\u003c/strong>: I was actually worried about the California market from the moment it was deregulated. That happened, ironically, on April Fools Day in 1998. I was worried because I had watched the Legislature put together Assembly Bill 1890, which was the bill that deregulated California's retail market. And after that law was passed, I interviewed people about the contents. I went through it literally line by line to try to understand everything that was included in that bill. And what I discovered was that the number of people in the Legislature whom I felt could actually show that they had a full understanding of that law, you could count the number of people on one hand. And I found that very worrisome, even though the thing passed nearly unanimously.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>It sounds like you had a fairly clear view of just how dire the situation was, perhaps sooner than a lot of other players.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Loretta Lynch\u003c/strong>: That came from the private sector. I was a white-collar criminal defense lawyer before I joined the state government, so I knew a criminal when I saw one, and I knew that Enron was engaged in criminal activity. The question to me was, was it a criminal conspiracy? And it turned out, yes, it was. The problem is, the law that Rebecca Smith talked about almost let the criminals win. They designed the electricity market, which was brand new in the United States then. It was by them and they operated it. So not surprisingly, they got away with all sorts of fraud and it took government a really long time to catch up to them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 16 years of Republicans before Gov. Davis was elected intentionally starved the regulatory agencies so that they would not be able to catch the crooks from 20 years ago, Enron and its cronies took advantage of California's new electricity markets to defraud those systems for profit. And that severely damaged California's economy and frankly, helped the historic recall. The political and economic fallout of their fraud was vast.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Did you get the sense that there was corruption involved in this on the part of the state Legislature and on the part of regulators? \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Rebecca Smith\u003c/strong>: No, I would not say I felt there was corruption, I felt what we saw was what we always see, which is that well-heeled interests that have money and that have an economic stake in outcomes are the most active forces in crafting legislation and participating in rulemaking proceedings. I mean, they're the ones who have the time and the money to be active participants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"tag":"energy","label":"Related coverage "},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>So what we really need is to make sure that the organizations and agencies that are responsible for representing consumers, that they also receive the resources they need. We need the ratepayer advocate office of the U.S. and these other institutions to be well resourced. They have to be in the game. They have to be representing the rest of us.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>How can we prevent future blackouts?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Loretta Lynch: \u003c/b>Other Western states and other local government-owned utilities within California are not blacking their customers out and are not charging these exorbitant prices. This isn't about climate change — the blackouts — because they all face droughts, wildfires and too little water to run their hydro systems.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The difference here is, California turned its electricity system over to a private corporation that answers to the feds. And we created an electricity market that has become a casino for the electricity traders. And we all pay and pay and pay. We have to shut down that casino or protect our people and our businesses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>I know from speaking with fire survivors in places like Paradise, in Sonoma County, they want nothing more than to not have to have PG&E provide their power. How realistic is it, this idea of decentralizing or having people kind of do their own thing? \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Steve Weissman\u003c/strong>: Well, as it happens, UC Irvine is now really on the cutting edge in terms of trying to develop its own internal reliability by creating what people refer to as a microgrid, which would have a lot of the features like renewable energy sources and storage and the ability to relate to the bigger grid, but to isolate when there's a problem on the bigger grid.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There's a difference in terms of what reliability means to different kinds of customers. And there is now, fully, the technological capability of having these microgrids not only serving something as holistic as one university campus, but serving broader communities, taking care of emergency services within a particular city, for instance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But we have a challenge in the state law, which was designed to protect the monopoly status of traditional utilities and doesn't allow for this kind of, what I'd call, a community-based microgrid system, to be installed without being encumbered with all the regulations that traditional utilities would have. And efforts to deal with this in the Legislature have been quashed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I think there's a tremendous amount of concern, especially among the utility workers' representatives, that this would somehow lead to a loss of good union jobs. And I think that's not a necessary result.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But in the meantime, the state is spending, through the energy commission, millions of dollars to promote various kinds of pilot examples of these microgrids. And I think there's no doubt that you could not only improve local reliability by having that kind of structure, but you also could improve the reliability of the broader grid by having many, many decentralized energy sources to work with.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Listen to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101884358/20-years-after-enron-and-rolling-blackouts-what-have-we-learned\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">KQED Forum\u003c/a> to hear the full episode.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11881207/what-lessons-can-california-learn-from-its-energy-crisis-20-years-ago","authors":["11690"],"categories":["news_8","news_13"],"tags":["news_21973","news_15","news_29392","news_1092","news_140"],"featImg":"news_11881165","label":"news"},"news_11881358":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11881358","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11881358","score":null,"sort":[1626476174000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"astonished-and-appalled-hayward-residents-leaders-decry-states-ok-to-restart-power-plant-that-exploded-in-may","title":"'Astonished and Appalled': Hayward Residents, Leaders Decry State's OK to Restart Power Plant That Exploded in May","publishDate":1626476174,"format":"standard","headTitle":"KQED News","labelTerm":{"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>Despite concern among Hayward city leaders and local residents, the energy commission charged with enforcing California's energy standards \u003ca href=\"///Users/ecruzguevarra/Downloads/TN238895_20210715T144606_Calpine%20Proposed%20Revisions%20to%20Revised%20Proposed%20Order%20(1).pdf\">approved a permit\u003c/a> to restart a Hayward power plant that had an \u003ca href=\"https://www.ktvu.com/news/plant-explosion-sends-heavy-metal-and-shrapnel-flying-in-hayward-cause-unknown\">explosion in May\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.energy.ca.gov/\">California Energy Commission\u003c/a> heard testimony Thursday from \u003ca href=\"///Users/ecruzguevarra/Downloads/TN238748_20210708T131515_Robert%20&%20Vicky%20Riendeau%20Comments%20-%20Calpine%20power%20plant.pdf\">residents\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.hayward-ca.gov/discover/news/jun21/city-hayward-oppose-application-restart-power-plant-following-explosion-and-fire\">city leaders opposed to the reopening\u003c/a> of the Russell City Energy Center, located in Hayward's mostly industrial west side and just a little over a mile from the edge of residential neighborhoods that house mostly low income Black, brown and immigrant residents of the city. [aside tag=\"energy\" label=\"more coverage\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The community of residents that live in proximity to this power plant are disproportionately burdened by multiple pollution sources and of characteristics that make them more sensitive to that pollution,\" Hayward City Manager Kelly McAdoo told California Energy Commission members.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California Public Utilities Commission and energy commission staff said reopening the Hayward power plant will allow the state to provide more reliable energy to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11878348/during-rolling-blackouts-last-summer-california-kept-exporting-power-out-of-state-theres-still-no-permanent-fix\">California's strained power grid\u003c/a> in the face of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11880865/wildfires-rage-as-heat-wave-and-drought-continue\">unprecedented heat\u003c/a> in recent months, highlighting the tension between California's crucial energy needs and the safety of mostly Black and brown neighborhoods bearing the brunt of climate change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We are balancing many competing threats right now,\" said David Hochschild, chair of the California Energy Commission. \"There's obviously concern about the local safety issues ... But there are also health issues around grid reliability.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But locals said they're not confident about the plant's safety amid outstanding questions about what caused a late-night explosion at the plant two months ago, prompting evacuations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n\u003cp lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">A number of residents were at the meeting to oppose the plan too, saying those debating this plant aren't the ones who have the breathe the air in Hayward.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I don’t think our people have to pay with our lives to benefit the rest of the state,\" said Hayward resident Claire Dugan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>— Ericka Cruz Guevarra (@NotoriousECG) \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/NotoriousECG/status/1415739404992225281?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 15, 2021\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003cscript async src=\"https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\">\u003c/script>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just before midnight on May 27, the plant — owned by Houston-based Calpine Corporation — erupted into flames after a steam turbine broke apart, sending chunks of metal flying as far as 1,200 feet away and puncturing the roof of the city's Housing Navigation Center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Within a matter of days, McAdoo told California Energy Commission members that Calpine was at work on an application to restart the power plant at half capacity, which is expected to release twice as much carbon per unit of energy produced.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We acknowledge the state's need for adequate power supply, but this should not be accomplished at the cost of community safety and detrimental environmental impacts,\" McAdoo said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size='medium' align='right' citation='Hayward City Manager Kelly McAdoo']'We acknowledge the state's need for adequate power supply, but this should not be accomplished at the cost of community safety and detrimental environmental impacts.'[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Residents said they were concerned about the plant's impact on the air quality for the surrounding community, and its impact on the mostly low-income immigrant communities that live nearby.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"As a resident of the community who lives within a 2-mile radius of the power plant I am extremely concerned about the safety of my family and the quality of air that we breathe,\" Alwine Knowles wrote to energy commissioners. \"If you lived in this community, this would be totally unexceptable.\" [sic]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2019, California regulators \u003ca href=\"https://www.eastbaytimes.com/2021/07/14/report-multiple-safety-issues-at-hayward-plant-before-explosion/\">found problems\u003c/a> at the Russell City Energy Center, including corrosive piping and defective equipment. Hayward city leaders say they were not made aware of the 2019 California Public Utilities Commission audit until a week ago. Calpine says none of the issues identified in the 2019 report were to blame for the May explosion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There has been a disturbing lack of transparency on the part of Calpine and regulatory authorities at the California Public Utilities Commission,\" said Chuck Finnie, communications director with the city of Hayward. \"This will remain a concern until we see a change.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hayward Fire Chief Garrett Contreras told energy commissioners his department has had difficulty accessing the facility to identify potential hazards to the community, and that he has been frustrated by his department's lack of jurisdiction over areas of the plant identified as problematic in the 2019 CPUC audit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two investigations into the explosion are still ongoing, according to Calpine. Hayward city leaders urged energy commissioners to block the company's permit until the community is assured the cause of the May explosion has been identified and addressed. \u003cspan class=\"s1\">[ad fullwidth]\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Barbara McBride, Calpine director of strategic origination and development, told energy commissioners that the root-cause analysis into the May explosion will be completed by late summer or early fall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Frankly, we are astonished and appalled at this application and your staff's recommendation of approval,\" said Hayward Mayor Barbara Halliday. \"This application puts profit and feeding the grid ahead of the safety of our residents and people working in or at proximity to this seemingly unsafe power plant.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under the approved configurations, McBride said Calpine expects the plant to reopen sometime early to mid-August.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As part of a stipulation to the approved permit, Calpine has agreed to meet with Energy Commission staff and the Hayward Fire Department to discuss any needed modifications to the site in case of an emergency.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The city of Hayward is confident that the California Energy Commission has a greater appreciation of the need for closer oversight of the power plant and that it should be done in partnership with the city of Hayward and our Fire Department,\" Finnie said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"The California Energy Commission heard testimony Thursday from residents and city leaders opposed to the reopening of the Russell City Energy Center, located in Hayward's mostly industrial west side.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1626726870,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":25,"wordCount":935},"headData":{"title":"'Astonished and Appalled': Hayward Residents, Leaders 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href=\"https://www.ktvu.com/news/plant-explosion-sends-heavy-metal-and-shrapnel-flying-in-hayward-cause-unknown\">explosion in May\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.energy.ca.gov/\">California Energy Commission\u003c/a> heard testimony Thursday from \u003ca href=\"///Users/ecruzguevarra/Downloads/TN238748_20210708T131515_Robert%20&%20Vicky%20Riendeau%20Comments%20-%20Calpine%20power%20plant.pdf\">residents\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.hayward-ca.gov/discover/news/jun21/city-hayward-oppose-application-restart-power-plant-following-explosion-and-fire\">city leaders opposed to the reopening\u003c/a> of the Russell City Energy Center, located in Hayward's mostly industrial west side and just a little over a mile from the edge of residential neighborhoods that house mostly low income Black, brown and immigrant residents of the city. 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But there are also health issues around grid reliability.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But locals said they're not confident about the plant's safety amid outstanding questions about what caused a late-night explosion at the plant two months ago, prompting evacuations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n\u003cp lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">A number of residents were at the meeting to oppose the plan too, saying those debating this plant aren't the ones who have the breathe the air in Hayward.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I don’t think our people have to pay with our lives to benefit the rest of the state,\" said Hayward resident Claire Dugan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>— Ericka Cruz Guevarra (@NotoriousECG) \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/NotoriousECG/status/1415739404992225281?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 15, 2021\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003cscript async src=\"https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\">\u003c/script>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just before midnight on May 27, the plant — owned by Houston-based Calpine Corporation — erupted into flames after a steam turbine broke apart, sending chunks of metal flying as far as 1,200 feet away and puncturing the roof of the city's Housing Navigation Center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Within a matter of days, McAdoo told California Energy Commission members that Calpine was at work on an application to restart the power plant at half capacity, which is expected to release twice as much carbon per unit of energy produced.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We acknowledge the state's need for adequate power supply, but this should not be accomplished at the cost of community safety and detrimental environmental impacts,\" McAdoo said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"'We acknowledge the state's need for adequate power supply, but this should not be accomplished at the cost of community safety and detrimental environmental impacts.'","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"right","citation":"Hayward City Manager Kelly McAdoo","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Residents said they were concerned about the plant's impact on the air quality for the surrounding community, and its impact on the mostly low-income immigrant communities that live nearby.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"As a resident of the community who lives within a 2-mile radius of the power plant I am extremely concerned about the safety of my family and the quality of air that we breathe,\" Alwine Knowles wrote to energy commissioners. \"If you lived in this community, this would be totally unexceptable.\" [sic]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2019, California regulators \u003ca href=\"https://www.eastbaytimes.com/2021/07/14/report-multiple-safety-issues-at-hayward-plant-before-explosion/\">found problems\u003c/a> at the Russell City Energy Center, including corrosive piping and defective equipment. Hayward city leaders say they were not made aware of the 2019 California Public Utilities Commission audit until a week ago. Calpine says none of the issues identified in the 2019 report were to blame for the May explosion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There has been a disturbing lack of transparency on the part of Calpine and regulatory authorities at the California Public Utilities Commission,\" said Chuck Finnie, communications director with the city of Hayward. \"This will remain a concern until we see a change.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hayward Fire Chief Garrett Contreras told energy commissioners his department has had difficulty accessing the facility to identify potential hazards to the community, and that he has been frustrated by his department's lack of jurisdiction over areas of the plant identified as problematic in the 2019 CPUC audit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two investigations into the explosion are still ongoing, according to Calpine. Hayward city leaders urged energy commissioners to block the company's permit until the community is assured the cause of the May explosion has been identified and addressed. \u003cspan class=\"s1\">\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Barbara McBride, Calpine director of strategic origination and development, told energy commissioners that the root-cause analysis into the May explosion will be completed by late summer or early fall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Frankly, we are astonished and appalled at this application and your staff's recommendation of approval,\" said Hayward Mayor Barbara Halliday. \"This application puts profit and feeding the grid ahead of the safety of our residents and people working in or at proximity to this seemingly unsafe power plant.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under the approved configurations, McBride said Calpine expects the plant to reopen sometime early to mid-August.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As part of a stipulation to the approved permit, Calpine has agreed to meet with Energy Commission staff and the Hayward Fire Department to discuss any needed modifications to the site in case of an emergency.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The city of Hayward is confident that the California Energy Commission has a greater appreciation of the need for closer oversight of the power plant and that it should be done in partnership with the city of Hayward and our Fire Department,\" Finnie said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11881358/astonished-and-appalled-hayward-residents-leaders-decry-states-ok-to-restart-power-plant-that-exploded-in-may","authors":["8654"],"categories":["news_19906","news_8"],"tags":["news_20591","news_29682","news_21973","news_1037","news_29683"],"featImg":"news_11881500","label":"news"},"news_11880813":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11880813","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11880813","score":null,"sort":[1625963371000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"growing-oregon-wildfire-threatens-ca-electric-transmission-lines-state-issues-grid-warning","title":"Growing Oregon Wildfire Threatens California Transmission Lines, State Issues Grid Warning","publishDate":1625963371,"format":"standard","headTitle":"KQED News","labelTerm":{"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated July 11, 1:30 p.m.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Southern Oregon's Bootleg Fire has grown to more than 143,000 acres as of Sunday morning, doubling in size from Saturday, when California energy officials warned it was encroaching on power transmission lines to the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, officials breathed a sigh of relief Sunday as flex alert warnings asking the public to conserve energy were successful. Those energy demands grew in the face of the wildfire, which blocked access to 5,500 megawatts of power, and as rising heat threatened to tax the state's energy reserves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California Independent System Operator, which oversees the transmission of bulk electricity in the state, said there would be no flex alert on Sunday. Grid conditions were expected to be \"stable\" Sunday, California ISO said in a tweet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"CA, you did it! Your efforts helped keep the grid stable,\" the agency wrote on Twitter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Threats to the grid aren't over yet, however. In the wake of growing wildfires and an ongoing heat wave, Gov. Gavin Newsom signed an executive order Saturday to allow the use of auxiliary ship engines to relieve pressure on California's electric grid. This is in addition to his move Friday to allow the use of other backup energy reserves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And while Sunday was expected to be relatively calm in terms of energy demands, California ISO warned demand is expected to increase again after the weekend — and asked the public to \"remain vigilant\" in case the state needs to conserve energy Monday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Original Post\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fearing the threat of wildfires to transmission lines amid a sweltering heat wave, California electricity grid operators issued a call to the public to conserve energy from 4 p.m. to 9 p.m. Saturday to prevent rolling blackouts statewide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With temperatures rising across the state's inland regions, California's electric grid netted a new threat Friday night as southern Oregon's Bootleg Fire doubled in size \u003ca href=\"https://inciweb.nwcg.gov/incident/7609/\">to nearly 76,000 acres,\u003c/a> encroaching dangerously close to transmission lines used to import electricity from other states to California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Elliot Mainzer, California Independent System Operator\"]'California has a significant amount of additional capacity it needs to put into the system here in the years ahead to adapt to these changing patterns of load, and temperatures, and heat, and even the potential for extended drought.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California Independent System Operator also forecast a potential shortfall of capacity due to the Bootleg Fire and issued a grid warning from 5 p.m. to 9 p.m. Saturday night. That warning indicates California ISO, which operates California's bulk electricity grid, anticipates using its electricity reserves, and allows them to request emergency assistance and emergency demand programs if needed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California has lost access to 5,500 megawatts of power due to the fire's impacts on a grid interconnection between California and Oregon, California ISO CEO Elliot Mainzer said in a press conference Saturday afternoon. To put that into context, during one of two rolling blackouts called last year, the loss of just 248 megawatts at a plant in the Central Valley \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11842647/what-caused-augusts-rolling-blackouts-experts-say-its-still-not-totally-clear\">was the final tipping point into an emergency\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"That's a significant portion of the state's power supply,\" Mainzer said. \"I really want to emphasize, we are asking a lot of consumers, but we've been using every tool at our disposal to keep the lights on.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This year's statewide energy issues have been exacerbated by wildfires unlike last year, when California ISO admitted that \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11878348/during-rolling-blackouts-last-summer-california-kept-exporting-power-out-of-state-theres-still-no-permanent-fix\">it was exporting energy to other states as demand peaked in California\u003c/a>. That prompted ISO to call the first rolling blackouts in 19 years on two evenings in August.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an effort to free up additional energy resources quickly, Gov. Gavin Newsom\u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/Extreme-Heat-Proc-7-8-21.pdf\"> signed an emergency proclamation Friday\u003c/a> to suspend some permitting requirements that would allow backup power generation to be used to alleviate demands on the energy grid.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/California_ISO/status/1413951294151303168\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As Californians deal with triple-digit heat Saturday, the National Weather Service has issued an excessive heat warning for much of the interior region of Northern California that will last through tomorrow night.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>NWS meteorologist Brayden Murdock said it’s important for people to be thinking ahead to lower electricity use as much as possible.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Not only are we dealing with hazardous heat during the day, but pretty warm nights are probably leading to people putting extra stress on their systems to get rid of that heat,” Murdock said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California ISO said data showed demand for electricity did drop Friday after they issued a flex alert that day, showing Californians were conserving in the face of a growing heat wave. But the Bootleg Fire's growth posed an \"imminent threat\" to transmission lines between California and Oregon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/lilyjamali/status/1413952288872296448\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those transmission lines also import power into another electric grid that helps power Nevada.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Bootleg Fire may not be contained for another two weeks, according to California ISO. California dispatched two strike teams with wildland engines to help Oregon officials battle the flames.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But two weeks isn't the only span of time to worry about. Mainzer, the California ISO CEO, told the press Saturday that California needs to think ahead about how to shore up its energy in the new reality of ever-growing wildfires and heat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think all of us recognize,\" he said, \"that California has a significant amount of additional capacity it needs to put into the system here in the years ahead to adapt to these changing patterns of load, and temperatures, and heat, and even the potential for extended drought.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We need to get away from the edge (capacity-wise) where we are now, but it will take some time,\" he added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wildfire season has seen challenges arise across the state, as the Beckwourth Complex of fires in California's northeast saw nearly 200 square miles of the Plumas National Forest closed, and forced evacuations across state lines into Nevada on Friday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Beckwourth Complex, which began as two lightning-caused fires in Plumas National Forest, showed “extreme behavior,” fire information officer Lisa Cox said Friday evening.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/CAPublicHealth/status/1413211388982579201\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hot rising air formed a gigantic, smoky pyrocumulus cloud that reached thousands of feet high and created its own lightning, Cox said. 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