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I'm on LADWP and my rate is .19 per kWh, so you're off by 2-3x. Many municipal power companies are even lower. If you're comparing using PG&E rates, I don't th
by mjamesaustin 2y ago
I'm on LADWP and my rate is .19 per kWh, so you're off by 2-3x. Many municipal power companies are even lower.
If you're comparing using PG&E rates, I don't think a utility that has to pay off damages from causing one of the largest wildfires in history is a good metric for comparing costs of different sources of electricity.
- saagarjha 2y agoI don't think the utility is the one paying off damages here.
- whimsicalism 2y ago[flagged]
- katbyte 2y agoUtility just passes the cost onto the ratepayers
- spywaregorilla 2y agoThey're paying significant damages. And it drives them to bankruptcy repeatedly. But at the end of the day there's just one grid.
- saagarjha 2y agoYes and then they turn around and immediately charge us, so it doesn’t seem like it is doing much.
- spywaregorilla 2y agoThere's no "turning around". You're in a place with a problem. The utility is not capable of wishing that away.
- saagarjha 2y agoThe utility could have fixed it with the money they got to fix it, of course.
- spywaregorilla 2y agoPG&E has over 100k miles of electric distribution lines (excluding transmission). Their numbers state it's $3M per mile to bury a line. Did they get $300 billion?