Campaign for Affordable Power (CAP)
Join TURN in advocating for affordability, accountability, and transparency in California!
Building a BIG TENT to Win Affordable Bills!
Utility rates have reached crisis levels, worsening homelessness and jeopardizing our clean energy future. We must lower costs, ensure fair electricity pricing, and advance reliable, equitable, and affordable energy. In January 2025, TURN launched CAP: Campaign for Affordable Power—a three-year initiative focused on grassroots advocacy, local power-building, and bold legislation.
Through CAP, we’re uniting a diverse movement to cut monthly bills, rein in utility spending and profits, and prevent shutoffs and homelessness.
Thank you to Senator Becker and co-author Assemblymember Petrie-Norris for fighting to get this passed.
Thank you to Governor Newsom for signing SB 254 into law.
The current system that sets no limits on rate increases needs to be replaced by a cap on annual bills, set at the cost-of-living adjustment provided by Social Security…
MARK TONEY, TURN Executive Director
Affordability and Accountability Bills:
on the Governor’s Desk for Signing
AB 1167 (Berman & Addis) – Advances to the Governor’s Desk
Limits the use of ratepayer money for company advertisements and political lobbying activity.
AB 1167 creates front-end accounting requirements to protect ratepayers from inappropriate corporate spending.
AB 1167 prevents utility corporations from spending ratepayer dollars on national trade associations, lobbying, and other excessive expenses.
AB 1167 gives the CPUC discretion to impose sliding scale penalties based upon the severity of utility violations.
SB 24 (McNerney) – Advances to the Governor’s Desk
Limits the use of ratepayer money for company political lobbying activity and strengthens public advocates’ power to investigate violations.
SB 24 gives the CPUC and the Public Advocates Office authority to inspect the accounting of public utilities to ensure appropriate use of ratepayer money.
SB 24 creates front-end accounting requirements to protect ratepayers from inappropriate corporate spending to oppose the municipalization of electric and gas services.
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TURN OPPOSES: AB 825 (Petrie-Norris, Rivas, and Senator Becker)
TURN appreciates the work of Chair Becker, and Chair Petrie-Norris on this bill. TURN respectfully opposes AB 825 because last-minute amendments eliminated several critical safeguards that protected ratepayers and state clean energy policy.
To provide a single example, AB 825 no longer prohibits the regional market from forcing California ratepayers to subsidize expensive out-of-state coal plants.
We are concerned because the Federal government has recently forced customers in other regional markets to pay increased costs to prop up fossil generation facilities at risk of retirement.
We are concerned that since AB 825 no longer contains this safeguard, we run the risk of the new western grid operator forcing California ratepayers to subsidize the importation of coal powered generation.
You already have a four-page letter from TURN detailing all of our major concerns, that potential benefits of a regional energy market, may be outweighed by ratepayer and environmental costs.
I ask that each of you do everything you can to make sure, that TURN’s warnings about AB 825, never come to pass.
I would like nothing better than to stand before you five years from now, and to congratulate you for a successful regional market, that benefits ratepayers, and advances clean energy policy. I’d be happy for TURN to be proven wrong.
David Binder Research (DPR) Poll
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2025 DBR Voter Survey
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CA Affordability Polling Memo