Summer is Almost Here. Your PG&E bill is About to Get Worse. Here are Some Ways to Soften the Bite
Written By Alejandra Cruz
Source: The San Francisco Chronicle|By Katherine Ellison
For all too many Californians, energy bills have become a slow-motion household emergency. Golden Staters already pay the highest electricity prices outside Hawaii, while an undeclared war in the Middle East, rising data-center electricity demand and a new round of rate hikes could raise costs even more.
Ultimately, there are limits to what even the most motivated individual ratepayer can do about the immensely complicated and vexing problem of high utility charges. I’ll leave it to Mark Toney, executive director of The Utility Reform Network, to state the obvious: “If people really want to save money, they simply have to tell their legislators to start making energy more affordable.”
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