With double-digit inflation, mega-gas prices in California, high food costs, high housing costs, and used cars selling for new car prices, gird your loins: Pacific Gas and Electric is proposing a 22 percent rate hike.
PG&E electricity customers were recently hit by a 9% rate hike on March 1st. That rate hike was unanimously approved by the California Public Utilities Commission and includes a 10% bump for small business, and a larger increase for industrial facilities, for an average increase of 12.69% across PG&E’s entire customer base, Daily Energy News reported.
Although PG&E also draws hydroelectric power from a system of pipes connected to dams and reservoirs, climate change and a persistent drought have diminished that supply, CPUC Commissioner Genevieve Shiroma, said.
Maybe the State Water Resources Control Board should meet with the CPUC and come to an agreement to stop the outflows of the state’s reservoirs while the threat of drought persists.
However, here’s your chance to weigh-in on latest 22% proposed rate hike:
The California Public Utilities Commission wants to hear what Californians have to say about PG&E’s proposed 22 percent rate hikes from 2023-2026.
These new rates are in addition to a 22 percent rate hike already planned for 2022. In January 2022, rates went up 8 percent. They went up another 10.5 percent last week and will rise again 3 percent this summer.
The CPUC will listen to public comments during its live webcast meetings on March 10 and March 22. Those who want to make a public comment during one of these hearings can call in via phone.
Comments can also be made at any time on the CPUC website comment section.
WHEN ARE THE LIVE HEARINGS
March 10 at 6pm
March 22 at 2pm
March 22 at 6pm
HOW TO WATCH
Watch the hearing live. This link will only allow you to watch. See instructions below to comment live at a hearing via phone.
HOW TO COMMENT
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- Public Comment via phone at CPUC live hearing
Participants will have audio and will be able to make comments or ask questions.
Call 800-857-1917 and enter passcode: 6032788#
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- You can leave a comment in CPUC’s online comment section at anytime: https://apps.cpuc.ca.gov/c/A2106021
View Comments (22)
PG&E customers might want to binge-watch some episodes of ABC 10's series "Fire - Power - Money" if they need some extra inspiration to weigh in on this latest PG&E proposed 22% increase:
"With California’s wildfires growing deadlier and bigger than ever, ABC10 examines the connection between wildfires, PG&E and its influence on California politics."
https://www.abc10.com/article/news/local/abc10-originals/fire-power-money-california-wildfires-investigation-pge/103-c273fb35-1c43-4d9a-9bdc-3d7971e5540b
"Argh, ye scurvy dogs!!! Prepare to boarded by the Pirates of Gas and Electricity! Resisters will be keelhauled!" PG&E Public Relations
So, how big is the rate increase on Newsomes' watch? Sounds like one heck of a nice billboard for anyone running against him in the upcoming election.
Oh goody! That rate hike will go to fund the building of the natural gas powered generating plants and or the several small nuclear power plants to replace the hydro-electric plants, save that water and get jiggy wif the desalination plants to stock SoCal reservoirs, right?! That's where the money will go, right!?
Soon electricity will only be for the "1%" and politically connected.
remember that electric car push....middle class and below won't be able to afford to charge it nor incur any additional battery cost once those are drained.
PG&E and CPUC are two corrupted partners....taxpayer have NO SEAT AT THEIR TABLE OF GOUGING
"CPUC will listen to public comments during its live webcast meetings on March 10 and March 22"
Its public theater....what ALWAYS happens:
PG&E asks for a ridiculous price increase, i.e. 22%
CPUC hold public hearings....people mad....blah blah
CPUC had already scripted it with PG&E beforehand where PG&E and/or CPUC will state "After hearing we heard and understand the people...blah blah" and come to the agreement with PG&E to reduce it to 15%
here is where CPUC show that they are protecting the people and make themselves feel good, when they know it was all pre-planned to be 15% anyway.
This type of script plays over and over again....all those fires and people suing PG&E for lack of using previous funds off other rate increases to fix the problem never ever is solved...they will continue to have disaster with people pointing different directions... Democrats are experts in never reaching a solution and passing the buck
You nailed it. Highest electricity rates in the 48 about to soar! Maybe, just maybe, this will finally get the "sheeple's" attention. Vote out the idiots who make this possible. Overturn the entire corrupt, self-serving CA political establishment!
You are exactly right! CPUC is bought and paid for by PGE.
Comrades
You’re helpless. And it’s only started.
Next step is a state takeover of PG&E. Then, I will execute my escape plan.
With these rate hikes how are the seniors on a fixed income supposed to survive. Did you even consider that. Or do you not even care.
"Our bottom line goes up, and yours goes down" ! Plain and simple ! Now, where's that rope ?
California has allowed elite's hysterical climate change ideology take precedence over human life, at literally all costs. How many human lives have "sustainable green energy" actually saved, compared to the number of people who cannot afford the quality of life" they once had?
"Public utilities" are useful for people, Delta smelt and kangaroo rats don't pay for electricity. Humans do, but how many of the humans live in areas of California that are over 90°or 100°, for days on end in the summer? How many of them can afford a $700 electricity bill so they can run their window-A/C? THAT'S not climate change! That's the central valley, that's the desert communities. Who can afford $600 to run the heater, in "all-electric" homes, when the overnight temp drops to 45°?
The *ideology* of climate change is far more important to these arrogant, holier-than-thou elites than human life. And if they seriously gave a thought to "clean affordable energy" they'd be building nuclear power plants instead of shutting them down.