If my state made me pay $0.40/kWh for unreliable energy, I'd be furious. I would be, too! Fortunately, here in Santa Clara, California, we're paying about $0.1

If my state made me pay $0.40/kWh for unreliable energy, I'd be furious. I would be, too! Fortunately, here in Santa Clara, California, we're paying about $0.11/kWh to Silicon Valley Power, as opposed to the $0.23/kWh that PG&E charges residential customers on average. Even that's sure not anything like $0.40/kWh. I think we've only lost power maybe twice in the eight years I've lived in Santa Clara, so I'm not too concerned about reliability issues. Since I'm in an apartment complex, I don't have the option to switch to Santa Clara's "green power" option for 100% renewable energy sources, although they've recently gone coal-free for all their generation sources. http://www.siliconvalleypower.com/svp-and-community/about-svp/area-rate-comparison http://www.siliconvalleypower.com/svp-and-community/about-sv...