Comment by m463

> someone justifying the high prices California paid as due to their high grid reliability

marketing is marketing

all electricity economics in california is highly manipulated via regulatory capture.

PG&E pays 3-4 cents/kwh wholesale and marks it up 10x because...

it can.

however marketing has "reasons" for this... like "building hte infrastructure for electric vehicles" or "adding reliability that prevents forest fires" or ...

none of that justifies the cost.

seriously, people charging their EVs are paying for the power. Shouldn't this be how PG&E makes money, instead of some exponentially increasing rate table?

it is interesting how people pay reasonable rates in Santa Clara or Palo Alto, which have non-pg&e power companies.