A separate billing issue resolved in the summer caused some customers to receive delayed bills, meaning, for instance, they were not billed for a portion of the charges one month and then double billed the next.“However, SCE is permitted to earn a regulated profit for the delivery portion of its business.”īut there could be several other reasons electric bills seemed higher earlier this year, Bardacke said: “By law, SCE doesn’t make money for procuring power on behalf of its customers,” Gales added. “CCAs and investor-owned utilities, such as SCE, are not in competition for customers and the formation or growth of CCAs does not impact the number of customers SCE serves, nor affects its profitability. “Southern California Edison strives to safely provide reliable and affordable service to all of its customers throughout Southern California, including those participating in (community choice aggregation programs),” said SCE spokesman Ron Gales. The latter is the cost of generating or procuring power that ultimately gets delivered to customers.
“I can understand why that’s confusing but if someone got a $100 bill from CPA in October, if they had been an Edison customer, they would have gotten the same $100 bill.”Įlectricity bills now show two separate types of charges: SCE distribution service charges for lines and infrastructure and CPA generation charges. “All of that is new to a customer looking at their bill,” Bardacke added. “There’s some new surcharges, which the customer pays to Edison but then we discount those charges to make up for those surcharges. “It can be confusing because how those charges appear on the bill is different,” said CPA Executive Director Ted Bardacke.
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