Electric customers to pay $9 billion more to state wildfire fund under proposed bill

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California electric customers face paying $9 billion more to replenish the state wildfire fund under legislation introduced Wednesday.

The deal aims to prevent the fund’s depletion from potential damages tied to January’s deadly Eaton fire.

Consumer advocates criticized the last-minute 229-page bill as bypassing normal legislative process with minimal public input.

California electric customers would pay $9 billion more to shore up the state’s wildfire fund under a last-minute deal reached behind closed doors that was introduced as legislation on Wednesday.

Southern California Edison, and the state’s two other large for-profit electric companies, had been lobbying Gov. Gavin News