Soon, if you live in the City of San Diego, Chula Vista, La Mesa, Encinitas or Imperial Beach, you will get a new electricity provider.  San Diego Community Power (SDCP) a community choice energy program will enroll more than 700,000 residential customers between February and May.  SDCP will pool the electricity needs of its customers and purchase power on their behalf. SDG&E will continue to deliver the electricity, and provide meter reading, billing, and line maintenance services. Residents will receive a single bill from SDG&E that shows SDCP’s electric generation charge, replacing SDG&E’s generation charge (which will show as a bill credit). Natural gas service will not change. You’ll continue to receive gas service from SDG&E along with all the other utility program fees, power transmission and distribution fees as you always have.  For more information, please visit SDCP’s website:  https://sdcommunitypower.org/the-big-switch-more-than-700000-electric-customers-begin-moving-from-sdge-to-a-community-energy-program/.

Jason Zeller has over thirty years of professional experience in public utility regulation, including experience in all of the industries regulated by the CPUC. Previously he served as an Assistant General Counsel at the Commission for twelve years and was a staff counsel for six years. Jason is a graduate of Claremont McKenna College and New York Law School. He also holds a Master’s in Urban Affairs and Policy Analysis from The New School. He is an active member of the California State Bar Association.