加州北部太平洋电力拟涨价57% 典型家庭月账单或增120美元
加州北部电力公司太平洋电力 11 月 6 日向加州公共事业委员会提交申请，要求从 2027 年 1 月 1 日起将电价上调约 1.034 亿美元，净涨幅 57%，典型家庭每月电费或增加约 120 美元。申请文件显示，基础电费收入拟增 8280 万美元，居民电价涨幅 56.9%。
太平洋电力是伯克希尔·哈撒韦旗下 PacifiCorp 公司在加州的品牌，在北部锡斯基尤、德尔诺特、莫多克与沙斯塔四县约有 4.6 万用户，供电逾 1.1 万平方英里。公司称涨价主要用于野火防范、系统加固与植被管理及保险与通胀成本；截至 2026 年底约 9380 万美元野火防范费用与 1110 万美元保险费无法由现行电价覆盖，拟分六年收回。公司称已加固 300 多英里线路、更换 7000 多根电杆；自 2023 年以来未全面上调电价，此次申请涵盖三年投资。公司网站称，同日生效的一项 14% 降价将部分抵消涨价。
标准普尔三度下调 PacifiCorp 信用评级，目前仅比垃圾级高一级。纽森推动的野火责任改革方案在立法会期结束时未能通过；委员会 11 月 1 日报告警告，野火成本已占加州三大电力公司典型家庭账单的一成至一成四。德尔诺特县正准备参与审查力争压低涨幅；审查或持续数月，最终批复可能低于申请。
Pacific Power Seeks 57% Rate Hike in Northern California, Adding About $120 a Month
Pacific Power on November 6 asked the California Public Utilities Commission to raise electricity rates by about $103.4 million, a net increase of 57 percent, effective January 1, 2027. The utility said a typical residential customer could pay about $120 more a month. The filing would raise base revenue by $82.8 million, or 56.8 percent, with residential rates up 56.9 percent.
Pacific Power, the California brand of PacifiCorp, owned by Berkshire Hathaway, serves about 46,000 customers in Siskiyou, Del Norte, Modoc and Shasta counties across more than 11,000 square miles. The company said the increase would pay for wildfire prevention, system hardening and vegetation management, plus insurance and inflation costs. About $93.8 million in deferred wildfire-mitigation costs and $11.1 million in insurance premiums will be on its books by the end of 2026 and uncovered by current rates, to be recovered over six years. Since 2022 the company says it has reinforced more than 300 miles of lines and replaced over 7,000 wooden poles with steel or fiberglass. It has not raised California rates generally since 2023. A 14 percent decrease taking effect the same day would partly offset the increase, the company said.
S&P cut PacifiCorp's credit rating three times between June 2023 and November 2025, leaving it one notch above junk. Gov. Gavin Newsom's wildfire-liability reform plan failed at the end of the legislative session, and the commission warned on November 1 that wildfire costs now make up 10 to 14 percent of a typical household bill at the state's three largest utilities. Del Norte County is preparing to take part in the review to press for a smaller increase. The commission's review could last months, and regulators may approve less than requested.
来源：太平洋电力（PacifiCorp
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图片来源：图中为加州卡里佐平原的输电线杆（资料照片）。来源：美国鱼类及野生动物管理局 Sarah Swenty 拍摄，公共领域（Wikimedia Commons）。
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