Electric Meter Tax in California $24-$70/month even for no or low use. CPUC

[Bryce Nesbitt]

https://www.ewg.org/news-insights/news-release/2024/03/over-240-california-community-organizations-unite-against

Late in the legislative process the tax was slipped into a 2022 law, A.B. 205, authorizing the California Public Utilities Commission, or CPUC, to add a fixed charge to electricity bills based on household income. It also eliminated “the cap on the amount of the fixed charge that the PUC may authorize. A.B. 205 passed after just three days, without any public hearings or floor debate. As a result, the state’s big utilities and other groups are proposing fixed charges between $30 to $70 per month, three to seven times the national average. All PG&E, SDG&E, SCE, and community choice aggregation residential customers — except for California Alternate Rates for Energy, or CARE, and Family Electric Rate Assistance or FERA, customers — will have to pay this tax, and it cannot be reduced or avoided, no matter how little energy a household uses. (edited)

This will affect investors with separate metering for little used units or devices like pumps or EV charging.... even if you have excess solar generation or whatever the bill charges will still apply.  It will of course affect your tenants directly, and your house meter on multifamily.

Disclosure: I volunteer for the EV Charging for All Coalition, a non-profit working on building code policy for multifamily EV charging.