DWP’s ratepayer advocate urges 2035 clean energy deadline be pushed to 2045

The Los Angeles Department of Water and Power wants to move to 100 percent clean energy in the next decade; however, the utility’s ratepayer advocate said that would likely cause some hefty increases in electric bills.

While DWP is aiming to go green by 2035 , the city’s Office of Public Accountability revealed in a report that L.A. residents could see their electric bills go up by 7.7% per year.

Instead, the OPA recommended the date be pushed back to 2045 to help ease the pain of the possible increases. 2045 is also the year the state of California would be to be carbon-free.

In a statement to the Los Angeles Times , Simon Zewdu, the senior assistant general manager of DWP’s power system wrote that the DWP is committed to meeting the 2035 goal “in an affordable way.”

In 2021, the L.A. City Council passed a motion requiring that “100 percent of the city’s electricity come from clean, zero-carbon energy by 2035.”

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