Danger- Corruption in Progress
The growing scandal at the California Public Utilities Commission may have cost customers statewide $68 million — there is mounting evidence that disgraced CPUC President Michael Peevey engineered $29 million in excess profits for PG&E, along with another $39 million to So Cal Gas, SDG&E and his former employer So Cal Edison.
The potential payoff came to light in an email by former PG&E executive Brian Cherry to his superiors, describing a quid pro quo Cherry said was offered by Peevey; unearned shareholder incentives charged to customers if PG&E would donate to a pet cause of Peevey’s.
A short time later Peevey did engineer the unearned “incentive” payments for utility energy efficiency programs statewide, including the promised amount to PG&E, over TURN’s protests. TURN had objected to efficiency incentives from the beginning, and fought hard to win minimal standards under which the excess profits could be given.
But President Peevey pushed the awards through, even though his own staff had concluded that PG&E and the others had failed to meet those standards and should get nothing for their poor performance.
TURN is demanding that the CPUC rescind the awards Peevey pushed through, and give customers back their money. We shouldn’t have to pay for CPUC corruption!
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