500 a month sounds steep. I'm assuming you live somewhere that requires AC every day?
The article referred to driving prices up from 2020 due to making the infrastructure stronger by as much as 30%. Which, yeah, about 150ish of your bill.
It is less clear on how much it will need to go up because of increased demand? The prediction is 8%. Which, again, not nothing. But it is telling that there is more increase from infrastructure than there is generation? I don't know that that will change?
My bill last month was $450 and I don’t own an AC, it was around $350 before I got a plug in hybrid but every year it goes up double digit percentages.
And according TFA, those poles and wires for transmission are a large part of the increase in costs that are forecasted.
Ideally, the folks who request the new plants and transmission lines pay for them, but it appears tech cos are attempting to pass the transmission cost burden onto residential consumers.
500 a month sounds steep. I'm assuming you live somewhere that requires AC every day?
The article referred to driving prices up from 2020 due to making the infrastructure stronger by as much as 30%. Which, yeah, about 150ish of your bill.
It is less clear on how much it will need to go up because of increased demand? The prediction is 8%. Which, again, not nothing. But it is telling that there is more increase from infrastructure than there is generation? I don't know that that will change?
My bill last month was $450 and I don’t own an AC, it was around $350 before I got a plug in hybrid but every year it goes up double digit percentages.
I'm curious what your major costs are, then? Without AC, pretty sure our costs were not even half that.
Granted, my memory is largely from when we lived in a smaller house.
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And according TFA, those poles and wires for transmission are a large part of the increase in costs that are forecasted.
Ideally, the folks who request the new plants and transmission lines pay for them, but it appears tech cos are attempting to pass the transmission cost burden onto residential consumers.
Poles and wires for a datacenter should be much cheaper than for a subdivision.
Privatize the gains, publicize the losses
That isn't unique to PG&E. Clear across the country, my utility bill is close to 60% transmission fees.
Also what are you doing? Running a flux capacitor?
PG&E peak residential rates hit over 50 cts/kwh.
PG&E works with a capture PUC and cost plus accounting where the only way for the company to increase profits is to drive up expenses.
You can thank all the wildfires for that
Yeah...I hate when wildfires neglect their infrastructure to the point that they start themselves