California has tiered power costs (the more you use the more expensive it gets) and their ‘baseline’ is not doable. I live in the Central Valley where it gets to be 114 for stretches during the summer. $800 for electricity is pretty normal here in the summer.....sometimes it is more.
How well I know! It's a rip-off of the first magnitude. There's no way I could possibly stay within my SCE 'baseline.' The one promise Obama's kept is that electricity costs under his administration would "necessarily" go up. Mine have -- like a rocket.