“potentially overcharging more than 6,800 District households on their monthly electric bills, and undermining the District’s efforts to meet its clean energy goals.”
“Attorney General Karl A. Racine today announced that the Office of the Attorney General and the Office of the People’s Counsel filed a complaint against Pepco for systemically mishandling community solar projects, potentially overcharging more than 6,800 District households on their monthly electric bills, and undermining the District’s efforts to meet its clean energy goals.
“The District has tried to work with Pepco for nearly two years to address problems with community solar programs and ensure 6,800 households–including thousands of low-income residents–get the solar energy discounts they are owed. Unfortunately, these programs are still not working as intended, and residents continue to get overcharged on their electric bills,” said AG Racine. “Enough is enough.
“The District government has been working tirelessly to resolve the issues that are plaguing CREFs, to no avail. Because the utility has not fixed the issues on its own, OPC and OAG are asking the PSC to step-in and use its regulatory powers to investigate and bring the utility into compliance with the law and make consumers whole for benefits that they have lost,” said People’s Counsel Sandra Mattavous-Frye.
In a petition before the Public Service Commission, OAG and OPC detail allegations that electric utility company, Pepco, has failed to properly implement community solar projects. These projects are designed to boost solar energy production and use in the District while helping residents–including low-income residents–reduce their electric bills.
In 2013, the Council passed environmental justice legislation to encourage more local solar energy generation and to enable all residents to benefit from solar energy, regardless of the type of housing they live in. The law created a model for
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