by Katy Grimes, E&E Legal Senior Media Fellow and California Globe Editor
As Appearing in the California Globe
Democrats: Cut electricity bills for low-income renters or register Democrat voters?
Gubernatorial candidate Steve Hilton’s CAL DOGE reported Thursday that $1 billion in taxpayer funds was stolen from the California Solar Program, which had promised to to cut electricity bills for low-income renters, was instead diverted to Democratic Voter Registration & Activism Efforts…
A new report from CAL DOGE alleges that nearly $1 BILLION from California’s Solar on Multifamily Affordable Housing program, intended to fund solar installations on affordable housing, has been diverted to Democrat voter registration and activism efforts.
The Solar Multifamily Affordable Program was created by Assembly Bill 693, by then-Assemblywoman Susan Eggman, in 2015. The bill created a Multifamily Affordable Housing Solar Roofs Program to provide financial incentives for qualified solar installations at multifamily affordable housing properties funded from investor-owned utility’s (IOUs) greenhouse gas (GHG) allowances,” according to Assembly Floor Analysis.
Funded by gas taxes, utility bills “cap and trade auctions proceeds,”the program has completed only 269 projects worth $72 million since 2015, raising questions about the missing funds, the California Post reported.
