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How do public electric rates compare to PG&E?

• asdff 4y ago
  Public electric rates are about half as much as far as I can tell looking for these rates online. https://www.pge.com/en_US/residential/rate-plans/rate-plan-options/understanding-rate-plans/understanding-rate-plans.page https://www.pge.com/en_US/residential/rate-plans/rate-plan-o... https://www.ladwp.com/ladwp/faces/wcnav_externalId/a-fr-elecrate-schel?_adf.ctrl-state=4n3384ili_4&_afrLoop=422206498105458&_afrWindowMode=0&_afrWindowId=hi3i33aib_14#%40%3F_afrWindowId%3Dhi3i33aib_14%26_afrLoop%3D422206498105458%26_afrWindowMode%3D0%26_adf.ctrl-state%3Dhi3i33aib_30 https://www.ladwp.com/ladwp/faces/wcnav_externalId/a-fr-elec...
• zbrozek 4y ago
  They're typically much lower. PG&E customers are mercilessly fleeced. Silicon Valley Power and Palo Alto charge around $0.14/KWh. PG&E averages around 3x as much, though their base rate (whose quota most people handily exceed) is only $0.32/KWh right now. That the CPUC has let this happen is a shameful failure of governance.
  • mistrial9 4y ago
    worse, GNewsom is well aware of every part of this. The current Governor grew up with his Father dealing with these topics from the inside for decades. It was a public sport in the 1980-90s to lambast PG&E with detailed litany, and somehow with the power of money and a badge, here we are. Adding to that failure is, the original PG&E that built the infrastructure, was widely regarded with deserved respect. It was an engineering problem in the early days and the engineering management earned their place with many very challenging projects completed successfully. The executives in place at PG&E successfully branded critics as "extreme lefties" and "uninformed" while keeping ultra-secret records, and it worked.