[GloriousKoji]

As someone also served by PG&E I don't think cheaper electricity will help. At peak hours electricity is $0.13/kwh but the delivery charge is $0.50/kwh.

[nicce]

> At peak hours electricity is $0.13/kwh but the delivery charge is $0.50/kwh.

Unfortunately, transmission has a natural monopoly risk, unless the government owns without profit requirements. The price peak is when it is just cheaper to make second set of lines next to old one and you can still pay the investment with fewer customers and lower price.

[LinXitoW]

If we had renewables everywhere, wouldn't a lot of that potentially disappear?

[justahuman74]

At some point the electricity will be near-free, and we'll just pay transmission fees

[qwertox]

Companies certainly won't pay for the maintenance. They'll let them degrade and then the government will have to take over. So we get charged twice, that is the real price.

[pfdietz]

Or, customer site storage will become so good they just drop off the grid.

[theptip]

The goal of making nuclear cheaper isn’t to lower consumer costs. It’s to displace CO2 emitting baseload sources like coal and gas.

[chermi]

Why not not both?

[ViewTrick1002]

Or you know, build renewables and storage which has in recent years reduced Californias fossil gas dependency by 40%.