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PGE charged me more for the same electric usage than SVP. There is definitely greed on PGEs part.
by Atotalnoob 4mo ago
PGE charged me more for the same electric usage than SVP.
There is definitely greed on PGEs part.
- jeffbee 4mo agoMaybe, but SVP has two massive advantages: it delivers almost all of its energy to a handful of gigantic customers, not homes. Contrary to internet belief, having a customer base dominated by industry makes power cheap to deliver. Secondly, it gets a free pass from expensive things that the state makes PG&E pay for, especially rural service.
- toast0 4mo agoThere's very little rural in San Francisco city/county, so a hypothetical sf electric utility wouldn't have to spend a lot on that either.
- jeffbee 4mo agoThat wasn't my point. Subsidizing rural service is a state policy. If major cities increasingly divorce from PG&E, and the true cost of rural electrification starts to be charged upon actual rural people, that might not work politically.