"The state Public Service Commission voted along party lines to end a program to save energy and money for residential customers — who already top the US in electricity use"
"In a move energy advocates say will increase electric bills for Louisiana residents and allow the state’s utilities to keep earning money for electricity they don’t provide, Louisiana’s energy regulators voted 3-2 Wednesday to scrap plans for an independently operated energy efficiency program more than 14 years in the making.
The matter was added two days before the Louisiana Public Service Commission’s meeting, held at a remote golf club on the Texas border, 2 ½ hours from where the PSC regularly meets. The vote, along party lines, reversed decisions made last year establishing program standards and hiring an independent administrator.
“We today gave a punch to the face to all Louisianians who are struggling to pay their bills because we said we are not interested, as a commission, in ensuring that we can reduce your energy usage so you can afford your bills,” PSC member Davante Lewis, who opposed Wednesday’s motion along with fellow Democrat Foster Campbell, told Floodlight after the meeting."
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