r/bayarea • u/Prestigious-Hour6707 • 5d ago

YOOO PG&E WTF Work & Housing

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…

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u/AgitatedDoughnut23 5d ago

This month ours came in at 589…. And that was after turning all the heat down to 62, from the previous month which was around 350….. how can you turn shit off and things get more expensive????

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u/Prestigious-Hour6707 5d ago

DUDE THIS!!! We have electric wall heaters. Turned that shit OFF as soon as we saw last month’s bill and haven’t turned them on since. Been freezing our asses off for over a month for more money? I.am.so.con.fused.and.pissed.off

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u/rabbitwonker 5d ago

You’re confused that resistive electric heating costs a lot more than the free heating you had last year? Ok…

If you want productive advice: look into heat pumps; those effectively raise the efficiency from 100% to like 400%+.

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u/smiling_corvidae 5d ago

how does that even work?

on another note, it is true that everything is 100% efficient in winter when you want heat. gotta find some crypto to mine or something? :p

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u/rabbitwonker 5d ago

Because it uses the electricity to move heat energy from the air outside to inside, rather than just being directly used as heat itself.

Air conditioners do the same thing, of course, in reverse; we just don’t usually make that kind of comparison, because, well, there’s no cooling equivalent to the direct heating methods. 😁

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u/smiling_corvidae 5d ago

ooooh cool that makes sense. i'm just imagining a simple system that turns on & off opportunistically?

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u/rabbitwonker 5d ago

Yeah, a, uh, thermostat would be what you’re thinking of 😁