YOOO PG&E WTF

[u/Prestigious-Hour6707]

800sq foot apartment. 2 people. Are. You. Kidding. Me.

Called PG&E to tell them they made a mistake. They said “hmm no it looks like the meter is working fine. Nothing we can do, that’s the price.”

No appliance change. No lifestyle changes. And even if we had, how the F*CKK could a 1bd apartment create a $630 bill?? Also yes, the previous bill. On me for not checking our auto payments. Just assumed they wouldn’t be more than $120….!? Dumb assumption on my part

I hate PG&E.

^I know it’s a hostile statement. But I think we can all agree an exception can be made for PG&E…

[u/Numerous_Bend_5883]

That is so not right! Is there a way you can appeal this?

[u/CRTsdidnothingwrong → u/Numerous_Bend_5883]

There's nothing to appeal that's just what it costs to heat (a probably poorly insulated) 800sqft with electric baseboards or space heaters.

Appeal to your California state government for 30 years of mismanaging energy policy.

[u/cerberus698 → u/CRTsdidnothingwrong]

Somehow it costs about 400-500 less dollars to heat an 1,100 square foot apartment that was built in the early 1900s as long as I do it in a municipal utility district =/

PG&E is insane. If I leave my MUD and go to a place with PG&E I need to be saving about 500 a year on rent for it to start breaking even.

[u/CRTsdidnothingwrong → u/cerberus698]

Part of the reason for that is that small and municipal utilities have largely been exempted or discounted from the state's energy policy that was applied to the big three. Green energy requirements, net metering, wildfire funding, forced selloffs of generating assets, decoupling, etc.

[u/eng2016a → u/CRTsdidnothingwrong]

Exactly. The massive costs are because of the massive renewables energy policy being demanded

[u/CRTsdidnothingwrong → u/eng2016a]

But the public's been told so many times that solar is cheaper that they're convinced of it now and the media doesn't question why the power still stays cheaper in Wyoming or Utah.