A consumer advocacy group filed a legal protest Thursday to the California Public Utilities Commission regarding the request by two Southern California utilities to spend approximately $4.4 billion on decommissioning the San Onofre Nuclear power plant.
The group, Citizens' Oversight Projects, said the filing will start the process to review the application by the utilities in administrative law proceedings at the CPUC and for the group to become a party in those proceedings.
Southern California Edison and San Diego Gas & Electric reportedly plan to spend approximately $4.4 billion on decommissioning the now closed power plant.
Ray Lutz, founder of the Citizens' Oversight Projects and a trained engineer, drafted the protest.
“There is $4.4 billion in these trust funds and almost no one providing careful oversight,” he said.
“The typical school construction bond of only $100 million requires that an independent citizens oversight committee review the spending in detail,” Lutz said.
