SAN DIEGO (KGTV) - San Diego Gas & Electric's 100 year monopoly in the county will end this weekend when more cities switch to the new San Diego Community Power.
The county's two largest cities, San Diego and Chula Vista, will sign on to the new company on May 1. Residents will be automatically enrolled and SDCP Chief Operating Officer Cody Hooven tells reporting partner 10 News people probably won't notice much except maybe the price.
"The reality is folks probably wont notice a change at all and that's really a good thing," said Hooven. "If nothing changes for them in their day to day is the same and they're just getting cleaner power at a slightly reduced rate, then that's a win for us."
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Listen to Eddie's interview with SDCP's Chief Operating Officer, Cody Hooven:
SDCP is offering electricity rates about two percent lower than SDG&E because as a government-run non-profit it is able to buy some of electricity at better prices.
"Electricity is a traded commodity, so we don’t know what the prices will look like in the future, but what we can commit to is that we will always have as much clean energy as we can, and we will always have competitive pricing,” said Hooven.
But SDG&E will still be the company billing residents and will continue maintain the local power grid. The cities of Imperial Beach, La Mesa and Encinitas have already switched over to San Diego Community Power.
Reporting partner 10 News takes an in-depth look at the switch to San Diego Community Power: