It seems that the bulk of the savings for making an urban municipal utility come from not having to pay for upgrades in fire-prone regions. And the end game is

It seems that the bulk of the savings for making an urban municipal utility come from not having to pay for upgrades in fire-prone regions. And the end game is that cities will have their own utilities with lower rates, whereas rural people will be adverse selected to be stuck with PG&E and pay thousands of dollars per month on energy. Wouldn’t it be easier for PG&E themselves to implement this desired rate schedule where urban rates are cheap and rural rates are expensive? It seems odd that the PUC would not allow PG&E to charge extraordinary rates for rural areas today, but they do allow cities to buy up the good parts of PG&E which will inevitably lead to the same outcome in the future.