PG&E Wants to Raise Rates Again. Why CA Bills Shouldn’t Change Much
Source: The Sacramento Bee | By Kate Wolffe
Pacific Gas and Electric Company’s latest filing with California regulators requests an 8% increase in revenue beginning in 2027. The company said it’s their lowest in a decade. Chief Executive Officer Patti Poppe said the General Rate Case, filed every four years to the California Public Utilities Commission, proves they’re “a turnaround story in the making.”
It’s not much of a boon to average non-subsidized customers who went from paying about $166 for their monthly combined gas and electric bill in 2018 to an average of $300 per month in 2025, according to documents PG&E filed with the CPUC. “It’s a slight decrease from these inflated rates, but it still does very little to help customers experiencing, you know, an affordability crisis,” said Lee Trotman, communications director for TURN, The Utility Reform Network.Trotman says PG&E overspent last year by double on vegetation management, and currently has 17 pending rate increases with the CPUC that are outside the General Rate Case.
