The author addressed that discrepancy: PG&E's current rate structure has urban rate payers subsidize rural rate payers and people who live in wildfire zones

The author addressed that discrepancy: PG&E's current rate structure has urban rate payers subsidize rural rate payers and people who live in wildfire zones in e.g. the Orinda Hills, who need substantial investment in order to receive power without sparking wildfires. This is bad policy - instead of subsidizing fire zones, it should be cheap to live in safe places and more expensive to live in dangerous places. Lower cost of electricity would reverse these trends.