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Blogs
April 4, 2012
City Council Approves Solar Energy Plan Allowing Property Owners to Sell Power Back to DWP
The L.A. City Council approved a pilot plan Tuesday to let the Department of Water and Power buy back solar energy from property owners who have installed solar panels on their homes and businesses. The power will be purchased through a "feed-in tariff" program, and the city is expected to sign con ... More >>
Blogs
November 16, 2011
DWP Punishes Water Conservers: Ron Nichols Seeks $5 BofA-style Monthly Fee Because Angelenos Saved Too Much Water
DWP: Watch out, it's alive and it wants your wallet.Shame on Los Angeles residents for conserving water. The Department of Water and Power (a widely hated agency, but also a public utility owned by all 4 million Angelenos) plans to slap everyone with a $5 per mo charge. Why? We hurt DWP's bot ... More >>
Blogs
November 8, 2011
DWP Fail: Studio City Water Mains Rupture, Flood Ventura Boulevard
KTLAWhen god doesn't deliver on the natural disasters, L.A. makes its own, dammit.Traffic along Ventura Boulevard (in an already trafficky part of Studio City) was completely halted last night and this morning, while city workers scrambled to repair two giant, ruptured water mains that were f ... More >>
Blogs
October 11, 2011
Search for L.A. Department of Water and Power 'Ratepayer Advocate' Off to Terrible Start
The DWP needs some oversight for its oversight.Remember that feel-good ballot measure you voted on last spring, having to do with your electricity/water bill and government oversight and transparency and all that jazz? Or didn't vote on, but should have? Well, sort of feel-bad news on that ... More >>
Blogs
June 15, 2011
The L.A. DWP Wants You to Drink Recycled Sewage -- and Pay $20 a Year For It
Stuck in Customs via FlickrDelish.Updated with a sewage endorsement from the L.A. County Sanitation District. The California drought may be temporarily on hold, but that doesn't mean Department of Water and Power problem-solvers have stopped scheming up new ways to keep your taps gushing and ... More >>
Blogs
March 9, 2011
Los Angeles Measures I and J Election Results: Big Backing for Reform of the Department of Water and Power
Kyle T. WebsterVillaraigosa claimed LA faced bankruptcy, and got his rate hike.Update: Hands down, these two L.A. DWP reform measures are the huge winners tonight. As of 12:20 a.m. Wed., Measure I had 77.35 percent yes, and Measure J had 81.27 percent. Early election returns for March 8, 2011 s ... More >>
Blogs
December 15, 2010
Eight L.A. City Councilmembers Give Up Potential Control Of DWP -- Bowing To Mayor Villaraigosa, Powerful DWP Union
City Councilman Paul Krekorian changed his position on DWP power play since last weekUpdated throughout. Originally posted at 2:34 p.m. Jesus, guys -- we thought the vote would at least be close. Then again, we should have known. Caving to a long history of bullish pressure from the Departm ... More >>
Blogs
November 23, 2010
Rudy Martinez, Reality-TV Star Up For City Council, Bashes Incumbent Jose Huizar For His Watered-Down DWP Vote
A&ERudy Martinez at his day jobExclusive: Fiery response from Camp Huizar after the jump! Originally posted at 11:30 a.m. To be an L.A. City Councilmember last Tuesday, voting on the creation of an Office of Public Accountability for the Department of Water and Power, was a lose-lose situati ... More >>
Blogs
November 16, 2010
L.A. City Council Squeezes Two Public-Accountability Positions For Unruly DWP Into Frantic Last Meeting Before Ballot Deadline; DWP's Brian D'Arcy Still Stands In The Way
Ron Kaye LADWP union head Brian D'Arcy will stop at nothing to keep the public department a royal familyUpdated after the jump with new details on today's debate. Of all the frenzied March ballot decisions going down at City Hall today, before the Wednesday deadline -- outlined in the Weekly's "R ... More >>
Blogs
September 7, 2010
Vent To L.A. City Council Tonight About DWP
A special City Council committee will meet tonight at 6 at the Mar Vista Rec Center Auditorium -- 11430 Woodbine Street -- to hear public comment about reforming the Department of Water and Power. DWP has been an embattled agency, especially since the Spring, which the Weekly called, "City H ... More >>
Blogs
August 10, 2010
L.A. City Council Tries To Rein In DWP
The City Council today will vote to put measures before the voters that seek to create more accountability and transparency at the Department of Water and Power, the oft-times opaque utility that has clashed with the council this year. The initiatives, which would amend the city charter and ... More >>
Blogs
August 10, 2010
L.A. City Council Sends Measure To Voters, Hoping to Rein In DWP
Council President Eric GarcettiBy Steve La Los Angeles voters will decide in March 2011 on a proposal to create a "ratepayer advocate" to represent Angelenos before the Department of Water and Power. The City Council voted overwhelmingly to send the charter reform measure to the voters for re ... More >>
Blogs
July 27, 2010
L.A. Council Withholds Utility Payments Owed To Department of Water And Power
The Los Angeles City Council will continued to withhold $600,000 it owns to its Department of Water and Power for city utility bills in a dispute over consulting fees that the council wants the DWP to pay but which the DWP states have been forced on it by a council that lacks jurisdiction to ... More >>
Blogs
July 13, 2010
Ratepayer Advocate For L.A. 'Water And Power' Customers One Step Closer To Reality
Nearly half of the Los Angeles City Council on Tuesday expressed support for putting a measure on the March ballot that would ask voters to create Department of Water and Power ratepayer advocate. The move comes in the wake of the council's tug of war with the powerful DWP over transparency, ... More >>
Blogs
July 6, 2010
Los Angeles City Council To Consider New Water Rationing Schedule
KTLA NewsThe Los Angeles City Council on Tuesday was expected to consider changing the city's lawn-watering schedule in order to relieve pressure on subterranean pipes that burst last year at alarming rates. The new schedule would allow residents at odd-numbered addresses activate sprinklers ... More >>
Blogs
June 10, 2010
Audit: Water And Power Had Enough Cash On Hand To Pay L.A. City Hall Its Due
According to an audit by the Los Angeles City Controller's office, the Department of Water and Power was not in the financial jeopardy top officials had said it was in when claiming the department could not provide a promised $73.5 million transfer to the city's general coffers without hiking ... More >>
Blogs
June 9, 2010
L.A. City Controller Will Release Much-Anticipated Audit Of Water and Power Thursday
City Controller Wendy Greuel.Los Angeles City Controller Wendy Greuel's office stated on Wednesday it will soon release an audit of the Department of Water and Power's finances, an inquiry specifically aimed at statements by DWP leaders insisting the agency did not have cash on hand to come u ... More >>
Blogs
June 2, 2010
Water Bills Will Increase Under Proposed DWP Budget
Water bills would increase starting Jan. 1 under a budget proposal submitted Tuesday by the Department of Water and Power. The proposal calls for an increase of about 4 to 6 percent for "tier 1" customers and a 6 to 8 percent raise for "tier 2" customers. Tier 1 customers are typically resi ... More >>
Blogs
May 4, 2010
Have L.A. City Workers Gone Wild?
CBS2With City Controller Wendy Greuel reporting Monday that one city agency couldn't even locate nearly $1 million in purchased items and CBS2 News recently catching Department of Water and Power workers drinking and hanging out at a strip club on the taxpayers' dime, the Daily News asks in a ... More >>
Blogs
May 3, 2010
As L.A. City Downsizes, DWP Has Been Growing
As a deficit-strapped city of Los Angeles ponders cuts of more than 750 workers, not including decreases in overtime for police that have resulted in less officers on the streets, the embattled Department of Water and Power has been growing. Jack Humphreville writes at LA CityWatch that the ... More >>
Blogs
April 30, 2010
L.A. Water And Power Workers Go To Strip Club As Rainy Day 'Tradition'
CBS2The report couldn't have come at a more heated time -- when the city of Los Angeles is financially under water and Department of Water and Power workers are getting a raise, not to mention a near-five-percent rate hike from electricity customers: CBS2 News found DWP workers drinking, atte ... More >>
Blogs
April 26, 2010
Villaraigosa Knew L.A. Electricity Rate Increase Was Permanent
As the issue came before the City Council two weeks ago, Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa knew that a rate hike for customers of the Department of Water and Power was permanent despite the City Council's belief that it would last three months, KNX 1070 Newsradio reported over the weeken ... More >>
Blogs
April 22, 2010
Was The City Council Hoodwinked In Approving Permanent Electricity Rate Hike?
It appeared as if the battle between the Los Angeles City Council and the Department of Water and Power over proposed electricity rate hikes came to an end last week when the DWP commission authorized a council vote to increase rates by nearly five percent for the quarter starting July 1. Th ... More >>
Blogs
April 22, 2010
Mayor Villaraigosa Whines About The Department Of Water And Power
Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa whined to the Los Angeles Times this week about leadership at the city's rebellious Department of Water and Power, which seems sometimes to be the money rich tail that wags the dog that is City Hall. "For four years, I've battled a bureaucracy that just won't resp ... More >>
Blogs
April 15, 2010
Department Of Water And Power Approves Electricity Hike
The 4.5 percent rate hike resubmitted by the Los Angeles City Council Wednesday to the Department of Water and Power's board of commissioners was approved by that body late Thursday, meaning that it will go into effect July 1 and last for at least three months. Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa hai ... More >>
Blogs
April 14, 2010
L.A. Water And Power Union Head Doesn't Care About Angry Ratepayers
KCETVal Zavala.Amid the shameless-but-failed attempt to raise L.A.'s electricity rates by as much as 28 percent, a limping city budget that has caused layoffs, a reduction of police on the streets, and one less day of public library access, most Department of Water and Power employees are enj ... More >>
Blogs
April 14, 2010
Breaking: Council Approves Electricity Rate Hike Of 4.5 Percent (Updated)
(Updated at 4:27 p.m. with a quote from Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa after the jump): Did the Los Angeles City Council just cry uncle? The body on Wednesday voted to approve a .6-cents-per-kilowatt hour rate hike for electricity customers of the Department of Water and Power. The council previ ... More >>
Blogs
April 13, 2010
Analysis Shows Lower Water Consumption Led To Burst Water Pipes In L.A. (Updated)
When the city needs to diffuse a situation in slow motion, this guy's at the ready.(Updated throughout): So L.A.'s water mains were bursting with fair regularity last summer, and the first thing that came to just about everyone's mind was that the subterranean water pipes were over-pressurize ... More >>
Blogs
April 9, 2010
L.A. City Sees Deeper Deficit Despite Rosy-Picture Politics
Despite rosy predictions yesterday that a spike in tax revenue and thousands of early retirements have helped the city's ailing budget dodge a bullet, a financial status report issued Friday states that Los Angeles' municipal deficit actually grew from about $212 million to $222 million in th ... More >>
Blogs
April 8, 2010
L.A. Council Dangles Possible Electricty Rate Hike In Bid To Get DWP Cash
Council President Eric Garcetti.Is the Los Angeles City Council crying uncle in its battle with its own Department of Water and Power over $73.5 million the utility is withholding from the city's main coffers? In a letter to the DWP today, ranking members of the council demanded payment but i ... More >>
Blogs
April 7, 2010
City Controller Announces Audit Of Department Of Water And Power
DWP headquarters.In another salvo in the battle between L.A.'s utility and City Hall, City Controller Wendy Greuel announced Wednesday that she is undertaking an audit of the Department of Water and Power's finances to verify its story that it doesn't have the cash on hand to transfer a promi ... More >>
Blogs
April 7, 2010
L.A. Council Wants Control Of Department Of Water And Power
As the mayor's office continued to argue for the need for Department of Water and Power rate hikes, the City Council on Wednesday approved motions that would put council control of the department before voters. Councilman Greig Smith introduced the idea of a ballot initiative that, if appro ... More >>
Blogs
April 6, 2010
Breaking: Mayor Villaraigosa Wants To Shut Down L.A. City Services Two Days A Week
Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa on Tuesday ordered the city administrative officer to draw up a plan that would shut down all city services besides police, fire and revenue-generating operations (the convention center, for example) for two days a week as a result of L.A.'s perilous bud ... More >>
Blogs
April 6, 2010
L.A. Council Wants 'Water and Power' To Hand Over Cash (Nobody Moves, Nobody Gets Hurt)
The Los Angeles City Council on Tuesday unanimously passed a resolution demanding that the Department of Water and Power hand over $73 million it had promised to transfer to the city's general fund before reneging as a result of the council's rejection of electricity rate hikes for DWP custom ... More >>
Blogs
April 1, 2010
L.A. Electricity Rate Hike Rejected In A Huge FAIL For Mayor, DWP
The Los Angeles City Council late Wednesday vetoed an electricity rate hike imposed by the Department of Water and Power, effectively putting off any power-bill increases for city utility customers until at least July. The move was a major rejection of Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa's attempts to ... More >>
Blogs
April 1, 2010
City Controller Says DWP Standoff Could Help Put L.A. Nearly $300 Million In The Hole
Greuel.The Los Angeles City Council's rejection of a .7-cents-per-kilowatt-hour rate hike sought by the Department of Water and Power for electricity customers could put the city deeper in the whole by helping to expand its current deficit from $212 million to as much as $290 million. In a T ... More >>
Blogs
March 26, 2010
L.A. Council Rejects Mayor Villaraigosa's DWP Rate Hike Plan
In a rare act of defiance against Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, the L.A. City Council on Friday rejected the initial piece of his plan to hike Department of Water and Power rates by as much as 28.4 percent. However, the deal's not done: Councilman Richard Alarcon has filed a motion ... More >>
Blogs
March 23, 2010
Mayor Warns City Could Go Bankrupt Without DWP Rate Hike; City Council Officially Stands In Plan's Way
What a difference a week makes. It was only last week that the mayor of Los Angeles was cloaking his massive Department of Water and Power rate-hike proposal as a green initiative designed to ween the city off of coal power. Today, before the City Council, Antonio Villaraigosa got down to the ... More >>
Blogs
March 17, 2010
Some On L.A. Council Question Massive DWP Hikes
While Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa was in Washington, D.C. lobbying for federal transit money, some on the Los Angeles City Council this week were questioning his plan to implement massive Department of Water and Power rate hikes amid an economy that includes high unemployment in L.A. "I think ... More >>
Blogs
March 16, 2010
Mayor's DWP Green Initiative Disguises Massive Rate Hikes
That $2.50 per person carbon surcharge Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa proposes for customers of the Department of Water and Power is actually a pretty huge rate hike that could see bills go up 8.8 to 28.4 percent, according to a Los Angeles Times analysis of the plan. While the mayor has been bi ... More >>
Blogs
March 1, 2010
What Recession? L.A. Mayor Wants An Extra $2.50 A Month From You
The Europe-jetting, soap-opera acting, Oscar partying mayor of Los Angeles thinks you haven't pitched in enough cash to city coffers, because it's not what your mayor can do for you, but what what you can do for Mayor V. That's right, Antonio Villaraigosa is backing a plan that would have De ... More >>
Blogs
January 25, 2010
City Asked To Spend $2.3 Million For Hotel Rooms In Owens Valley
DWPIt's the kind of strange fact you might imagine Chinatown detective Jake Gittes coming across: The city is set to spend $2.3 million on hotel rooms in the Owens Valley town of Bishop. Actually, it's the Department of Water and Power's money. On Tuesday it's asking for the council to approv ... More >>
Blogs
December 11, 2009
Council Votes To Give DWP Workers Raises
As the city struggles with an impending $400 million deficit, hurdles for hiring more police, looming layoffs and intermittent fire-station closures, the City Council on Friday voted to give Department of Water and Power workers a raise, according to the City Clerk's office. The unanimous vo ... More >>
Blogs
January 29, 2009
Two Local Strikes on the Horizon
A pair of labor disputes that could have far-reaching effects on the L.A. economy are edging into the spotlight. Tomorrow morning Local 675 of the United Steelworkers of America will seek a strike sanction from the L.A. County Federation of Labor. The union, whose local and national negotiating comm ... More >>
LA Life
January 11, 2007
A Shady Deal
This year, plant a resolution that will stick
News
March 30, 2006
Audit Blues
The DWP wants more of your money
News
October 13, 2005
DWP�s Endless Storm
Therapists summoned to deal with angry workers on desert project
News
August 18, 2005
Power On High
DWP workers wired for big raises
News
August 11, 2005
DWP�s Power Surge
Mystery surrounding troubled contract points to mismanagement of L.A.�s giant utility
News
February 3, 2005
End of Empire
DWP�s monopoly cleaning contract gets scrubbed
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