Southern Californians hit with skyrocketing electricity bills

KTLA ^ | 8/16/24 | Peter Wilgoren

[metmom]

Likely it was election fraud with him, too. Just not as obvious as it’s become these days.

[hal ogen]

We are fortunate...$.065 per KWH.

[eyeamok]

not sure about PGE, but for SCE you can still opt out of TOU, they make it hard now, you have to call and get the form emailed I believe, his wife spent a week getting it done. My neighbor did it at the beginning of the year. His bill was $800-$1000 and now it is in the $100-$300 range. except for Summer when the AC is always on at both houses, my bill for BOTH houses runs around $200. They are both on the same bill since I don’t get mail at the new house and never will.

[AppyPappy]

Yes but it is green energy so you are saving the planet

[Vaduz]

People are receiving $600-$1000 bills.

Police are still looking for EV sniper teams roaming southern California areas.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

I tried to opt out of PG&E TOU on the web last night. I had to enter my email address. Their web developers screwed up. It kept complaining “Enter a valid email address.” I retyped it, copy/pasted it from my mail program, and triple checked it. Nothing worked.

I phoned at 15 minutes before their support ended and got a real nice guy in SoCal (spoke perfect American English!)who did the change in a minute. We got talking about power prices and he said he is just below $1,000 from Edison! Same as in this story.

[Oldhunk]

I’m in north Florida. It’s been in the mids 90’s here nearly everyday for some time. My electric bill this month is $188 in a 3500 sq ft house. Thermostat at 77 degrees.

[Mastador1]

It’s really special, so if you works so that you have to leave early and get home late in the afternoon you always get screwed because everything at that point is the higher TOU rate and you can’t always put everything thing off until your days off nor should you have to make your days off plans around the TOU schedule.

[linMcHlp]

The sanctioned supplies of fuel for generating electricity:

- coal
- natural gas
- nuclear
- solar
- wind

The most stable of those:

- coal
- natural gas
- nuclear

The more stable the fuel supplies, the lower the expense of managing the supplies - IOW, lower costs.

Given demands for electricity and pressures upon generation:

- marketplace demand
- pressure by government

Then the generator business profit margin is presented to the public eye, by progressives narratives / propaganda . . . to be able to cut prices

. . . while generators are expected to miraculously ignore the cost of managing stable fuel supplies and maintaining hundreds of thousands of processing parts-and-systems.

In California, that problem is a tragedy: Transportion is expected by “progressives” to use for fuel:

- solar
- wind
- and out-of-state vendors

. . . while asserting that the price of electricity should be capped.

That is certain to cause more inflation - as demand chases less reliable generation and availability.

The California Energy Commission has recently proposed nationalizing (at the state level, at least) fossil fuel refineries - the “thinking” being, that government agencies and employees (IOW non-compete monopolies) will cost less and be more reliable.

[markman46]

1000% need more power plants, I am retired too. I am not going to swelter in 100 to 105 degree temps from 4 to 9 pm every day in the summer.

[eyeamok]

Yep, my neighbor had to call and so did I, it is the only way

[Professional Engineer]

The electrical grid in CA would have to be basically doubled to handle everything and that would mean it need the entire world’s output of Copper for about one year.

Utility transmission and distribution feeders use aluminum conductors.