| When: | September 26, 2025 @ 2:00 pm – 5:00 pm |
| Where: |
United Way of San Diego 4699 Murphy Canyon Rd. San Diego, California 92123 |
| Contact: | masada@sandiego350.org |
The California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) is holding a public hearing to receive YOUR input on SDG&E’s proposal to build a “hydrogen blending” test project at their facility in Kearny Mesa. Join us to speak out against this proposal!
Why hydrogen in methane gas pipelines is a bad idea:
- It’s dangerous. Hydrogen is corrosive to pipelines, tends to leak, and is highly explosive (read more).
- It’s expensive. Ratepayers would be on the hook for the $21.1M for this small test project at their own site – let alone the billions (trillions???) SDG&E would like to charge us to modify their entire pipeline network.
- It’s NOT a climate solution. We should be decarbonizing, electrifying, and transitioning to 100% renewable energy systems now – not extending a fossil fuel delivery system.
Attending in person? Masada will be there to meet folks at 1:45 outside the location.
If you cannot attend in person, please make a public comment online through the CPUC’s website.
SDG&E is committed to only one thing: ensuring its business is highly profitable for shareholders, regardless of the safety, health or environmental consequences to our community. SDG&E makes its profits by building new infrastructure, not by delivering gas or electricity (those costs are capped). So getting the PUC to allow them to unnecessarily upgrade and maintain their gas pipeline network translates a big raise for shareholders and execs – at a tremendous cost to us, the ratepayers. Did we mention almost all hydrogen is produced using fossil fuels? If the CPUC buys this story, we may have a bridge to sell them…
We’ll be posting talking points here no later than Monday, Sept 22nd, but meantime read this op-ed by SD350 volunteer Kelly Lyndon for some background.
