{"id":1093,"date":"2018-07-19T23:09:00","date_gmt":"2018-07-19T23:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/2018\/07\/19\/eminent-domain-duty-to-maintain-transmission-lines-wildfires-rate-increase\/"},"modified":"2018-07-19T23:09:00","modified_gmt":"2018-07-19T23:09:00","slug":"eminent-domain-duty-to-maintain-transmission-lines-wildfires-rate-increase","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/eminent-domain-duty-to-maintain-transmission-lines-wildfires-rate-increase\/","title":{"rendered":"Eminent Domain + Duty to Maintain Transmission Lines + Wildfires = Rate Increase?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The California Public Utility Commission denied a rate increase for San Diego Gas &amp; Electric Co.\u2019s request to bill ratepayers for a 2007 fire.<\/p>\n<p><strong>How much did San Diego want to pass on to customers?<\/strong> \u00a0$379 million in costs<\/p>\n<p><strong>Why was the rate increase denied?<\/strong> A court found SDG&amp;E\u00a0didn\u2019t properly trim trees near transmission lines<\/p>\n<p><strong>What&#8217;s the bargain in California when eminent domain is granted?<\/strong>\u00a0In exchange for the power of eminnt domain, CA\u00a0utilities are responsible for paying damages if their equipment starts fires, even if they aren\u2019t negligent.<\/p>\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sacbee.com\/opinion\/editorials\/article215176665.html\">Sacramento Bee | Editorial |\u00a0<strong style=\"font-weight:bold;\">The \u2018new normal\u2019 on wildfires isn\u2019t reason enough to give utilities a free pass<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-left:80px;\">\n<div>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The California Public Utility Commission denied a rate increase for San Diego Gas &amp; Electric Co.\u2019s request to bill ratepayers for a 2007 fire.<\/p>\n<p><strong>How much did San Diego want to pass on to customers?<\/strong> \u00a0$379 million in costs<\/p>\n<p><strong>Why was the rate increase denied?<\/strong> A court found SDG&amp;E\u00a0didn\u2019t properly trim trees near transmission lines<\/p>\n<p><strong>What&#8217;s the bargain in California when eminent domain is granted?<\/strong>\u00a0In exchange for the power of eminnt domain, CA\u00a0utilities are responsible for paying damages if their\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,4,14,2,20,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-inverse-condemnation","category-legal-trend","category-legislation-trend","category-private-property-rights","category-process-procedure","category-transmission-lines","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1093","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1093"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1093\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}