The California “green” agenda is itself a significant reason California electric ultiity rates are the 5th highest in the nation.
A few of the causes:
1. Electricity providerers are required by law in Callifornia to obtain X % of their electricity from more expensive “renewables” like wind and solar, though less expensive wholesale sharing on the grid is available.
2. Rooftop solar is an additional cost born by everyone who uses the grid. (A) Supplying the massive electricity to the grid has fixed costs no matter the number of customers who need the open lines at any time. So when fewer customers actually on the grid (like residential rooftop solar users) those fixed costs have to be born by the rest of the customers. Solar users go up, the grids fixed costs to everyone else goes up. (B) The grid suppliers are required by California law to buy any solar rooftop “excess output” (solar output greater than the rooftop solar location needs) , whether the grid needs it or not AND they must pay retail. If the grid actually needed that additional input they could get it cheaper wholesale on the open grid markets. So, in two different ways eveyone who uses the grid in California has had their costs go up due to solar.
Now, having created their electricity cost monster they are going to “solve” their own crisis by a government cost “redistribution” policy, again making electricity WRONGFULLY cheaper for some and increasing the costs, even more, for others. What could possibly go wrong. /sarc
You did a good job explaining how the enviralist B$ requirements are costing all of us a lot of us money for our electricity and natural gas.