[tristanb]

I am so sick of PG&E - our energy bills are nearly $1,000/mo. It's absolutely bonkers.

[ahmeneeroe-v2]

Look at your power bill. Half of your kWh cost is taxes to the State of California.

You could literally have half the power bill tomorrow if CA would stop taxing it.

[hypothesis]

No can do, they are going to start taxing (hard to call that billing at that point) you based on your income. At least that was the plan last summer or so.

[yumraj]

As the blog also mentioned, Santa Clara city charges 17c while in the neighboring San Jose I pay average 50c (time of use plan).

Half of 50c even if I believe you is 25c still higher than 17c.

[locallost]

This can't be true. Every month?? How many kwh per month do you use, and on what?

[simoncion]

I pay $200 per month in electricity costs. I live in a small San Francisco apartment. I have two laptops, two desktop machines (only one of which has a video card in it), two monitors, some ethernet switches and WiFi APs, a fridge, a microwave oven, and two ceiling fans.

My heat (for both air and water) is provided by the building's boiler and is included in the rent, rather than the utility bill. My stove and oven burn natural gas. My air conditioning is "open the windows and hope it's not 95F outside".

I could totally see someone who had to do electric heating and cooling having a far larger bill than I do (especially if they're living in a place that's large than a shoebox).

[aqueueaqueue]

Sounds like an inefficient house and lots of heating or cooling.

Or some kind of production / workshop / datacentre / business usage.