Utilities’ Plan to Weaken Rate Rule Is Unfair

Re “Power Play: Big Energy vs. Solar,” Aug. 11:

The idea of paying customers lower, wholesale rates for energy they produce during peak periods, then being charged full rates at night when energy use is low, is unfair. The utilities’ amendments to AB 58 weaken the law by not crediting consumer’s energy bill at the same rate they pay the utility. Under the revised law someone could easily end up paying money to the utilities for producing energy. Yet the utilities have the gall to claim that it costs other ratepayers money. How dumb do they think people are? After we got ripped off for tens of billions of dollars with the energy deregulation scam, politicians should not expect to get votes by being in the pockets of the utilities.

David Bendall

Aliso Viejo