Commentary: The LADWP is charging outdated power rates, and there's no easy fix

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

53% : When the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power adopted its "time-of-use" electricity rates in 2008 to encourage less power consumption during peak hours, George W. Bush was still president, the utility got nearly half of its electricity from coal and solar was only a small contributor to the city's power supply.
52% : (Lifeline rates are standard practice among utilities and the transfer is essentially a payment in lieu of taxes that a private utility would pay to the state, but because DWP is a city-owned utility, Proposition 26 applies.)

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