PG&E’s residential rates go up to 44¢ per kWh for amounts over 300% of your “baseline.” Baseline is a very low amount and it is easy for even a modest household to hit this rate. Pushing renewables would surely sent this to $1.00/kWh and any carbon tax would push it to $1.50 or maybe $2.00/kWh. And, with the mass migration out of CA, rates could go even higher as the fixed investment will have to spread over fewer rate payers.
CA was a great place from the 1840s to the 1970s or so. What a cesspool now.
I had closed my escrow in Feb 2001 after finally selling my house in Mira Mesa (north San Diego City). I needed to maintain a residence in the school boundaries so my son could graduate from Mira Mesa High school in June. I moved into an apartment. During that time I became very frugal with my electrical use. I managed to keep the electric bill between $24 and $29 when my "neighbors" were blowing through $300 bills. Most of my bill was the refrigerator. We had a couple rolling blackouts in that time frame as well. I sat by the pool, surfing the web with my WiFi connection. The DSL router in my apartment was on an APS battery backup. The rest of my neighbors were running around like chickens with their heads cut off. The traffic lights were down and all of Black Mountain Rd, Miramar Rd and parts of I-15 were in total gridlock. That persisted all night, all morning and abated around 1 PM the next day.
Suffice to say, I expect a return of those problems. Fortunately, I'll just be reading about it from 900 miles north.