Lane is a senior executive with experience in power project development, regulatory affairs, and government relations. He is a business model innovator and strategic management and financial advisor. Contact Lane.
Bill Powers
Bill is one of the country's most respected engineers in utility and energy resource management. He has shaped strategy to achieve renewable energy objectives for the country's leading public and investor-owned utilities. Contact Bill.
Who We Are... The People of San Diego.
The people of San Diego demand energy choice as fair and timely competition to San Diego Gas & Electric. SDG&E has enjoyed a monopoly status to create one of the most costly utilities in the United States. An alternative energy supplier for the people will force SDG&E to maintain accountability for the network that delivers the energy.
Compounding negative experience is the company's 2011 effort to tax rooftop and commercial solar with its Network Use Charge. On 19-January-2012, the Public Utility Commission rejected the effort as illegal. Now, SDG&E is seeking a change to State Law to make it legal.
The Foundation seeks a sustainable and robust grid and is therefore aligned with SDG&E on this point. However, it makes no sense to retroactively impose a fee on existing customers who have made a 20 year investment in solar. The 5% Net Energy Metering Cap is therefore sacrosanct. Beyond 5%, there will be Net Metering Energy reform.
Leaders in the solar industry, government officials, and activists are organizing the San Diego Energy District to become a significant and effective provider of clean electricity ... for the people and by the people. The Foundation advocates and organizes for the creation and operation of this District.
The Foundation is the strategic leader in San Diego for the formation of CCAs. Please become a member.
